Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-03-17
DIVORCE SUIT
BEHIND D|VA'S
Loss Of HUBBY
Matzenauers Had Quar-
rel and Singer Threw
Her Taxi Idol Out.
Also Says Doctor Rang
False Alarm on Happy
Event; Her Rival so.

st. Louis. March 16-An operate
program which somewhat parallels her
present position will be sung by Nine
Margarete MatZenauer here. she an
nounced to newspaper men in inter-
views relating to her separation from
her husband, Floyd Glotzbach, who is
reported as driving sightseeing auto
mobile in Delmonte. Cal. The next day
she began divorce proceedings.
! Nine. Matzenauer will sing Senta S
ballad from THE Flying Dutchman.
who was a sort of chauffeur himself
a ships captain doomed to sail the
seas through eternity, unless some
maiden who would be faithful unto
death should rescue him. Senta's song
is the song of alteration addressed to
the seafaring chauffeur, who was pick
ed from the trough" as Nine. Mat
zenauer says she picked Glotzbach from
''the gutter Other songs on her
program are Loves Death" in which
the parallel is not destroyed, and
Dreams" and Sorrows
Made Jealous by Letter
Nine Matzenauer said the election
of her husband from her New York
apartment last January 26 was not only
figurative but literal as she threw him
out after reading a letter from that
woman in California" who, she says,
is 80 years old.
The diva says she and her husband
now agree on only one point and that
is their separation is forever" II
picked him up from the gutter. think
ing my great love would remake him."
she said Il have lived the game and
have given up. ! want to get rid of
him.
Glotzbach was referred to as her
100 per cent" husband upon the re-
turn to New York of the couple from
Carlsbad. Czecho- Slovakia. after the
When asked about the rat
ing she now applied to her husband.
she replied she would rather not an
swer.
"OId Lady, Correspondent
The diva asserted she has pending in
New York proceedings for absolute
divorce. naming as correspondent IAN
old lady of about 50,' Of Carmel. Cal
iforna, and that papers were served
on Glotzbach January u.
The opera singer declared she had
given Glotzbach $50 a month, but in
spite of this she had to pay for every
thread he wore" She stated that al
though she allowed him to live the
life Of a prince" he publicly denied
their marriage in letter to the news
papers in Carmel.
Doctor Made Mistake
Madame Matzcnauer touching on a
report from San Francisco she expect
ed to become a mother, said she no.
titled her husband to this effect a
month ago, after being examined by a /
physician of Ann Arbor, Mich, but
that it now turned out to be "a false
alarm She added that the physician
also had written Glotzbach of her sup
posed condition.
Madame Matzenauer said she believ-
I'd n great love like mine" could over
,ome all obstacles. but, failing, all she
desired was Ito rid myself legally from /
his man as quickly as possible" |
Il had intended to treat this whole !
natter in dignified and ladylike fash |
on she stated to The Associated !
Press, land this explains my denial at
Joplin of our domestic infehcity. II
Wished to spare him humiliation, but |
IS he has made me the laughing stock
If the world. he has forced me to come
'ut with the truth.
He did not leave or desert me, but |
threw him out of my New York
lpartment January 26. and had papers
erved on him for absolute divorce the
ollowing day on grounds of infidelity.
Though j allowed him $3.50 month
or personal expenses. I had to pay
or every thread he wore on his body.
clothed him, showered him with gifts
md presents. made him live the life of
prince, and in gratitude for all this
e deceived me-"