The Washington times., 1922-08-27

"Artistes are not to be judged by
ordinary Standards" was the verdict
of the combined councils of the Miura
family. "Let the lady sail with Fran.
chetti. Let the husband stay at
home."
-, And the lady, Madame Tamaki, did
sail with Franchetti, and the husband,
q, laying down his hands with true Ori.
entail fatalism, said: "It is decided.
. It is what husband must expect when
he marries an artistic"
.. But the Tamaki verdict has had a
very beneficial effect. 1t has directed
the attention of men of science anew
to this matter of Temperament" and
the validity of the claim that those
who possess it just can't help doing
outrageous things, and therefore must
not be censured, criticized or punished
for doing them. .,...-.,
And DR.. Andre Tridon, easily the fore
most psycho-analyst in America, whose
latest book, "Psycho-Analysis and Love-"
is the last word upon the hidden secret
sources of emotion and its various forms
of expression, presents on this page not
only the new scientific but the common
sense view of the subject.
Up to now science has been inclined to
take the point of view of the artistes
themselves. 1t has been said that their
blood supply, their nerve supply, the very
shape of their heads and their brains, will
not let them do anything else than what
they so frequently do. DR.. David Edgar
Rice, formerly of Columbia University,
has been a leader in this school. He
has written that the abnormally developed
sensory centres Of the artiste's brain
absorb such large supply of blood that
there is not enough left over to nourish
the higher inhibitory or forbidding CEN
tres of the brain which regulate conduct.
The brake of the artistic automobile,
as it were, is lacking. Therefore, when
they get married too often or, again, for
get to get married, it is not their fault.
Listen now to DIR. Tridon:
= "Stuff and nonsense! The artistic tenn
permanent? An insufficient blood supply
to the inhibitory centres, making it i'm
possible for artistes to be conventionally
proper-ah, boshl Artistes, women sing
ers who throw things down, from vases to
lovers, can be just as good and virtuous
as little school teachers .pegging away at
their Latin for twenty-five dollars week
i"When Calve. refuses to come out upon
the stage and Ang because the director
doesn't bow low enough to her she can
help those artistic tantrums IL she wants
to. But she doesn't want to. -.
"When Gamma Walska marries Alexan-
der Cochran and then promptly divorces
him she is not spurred on by any newt
able physiological compulsion. She can
keep the peace and hold the fireside even
with that e: 5twhile confirmed bachelor
Cochran If she wants to. But she doesn't
want to. When Emma Eames divorces
the artist Storey, her first husband, and
then rapidly marries the singe-' Gorgoza,
to whose wife she is said to have paid one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, she
could manage along WITH the first, per-
/ haps rather shopworn husband, perfectly
well only she doesn't want to.
"Any female singer of them all, even
the most erratic, can act Just as usually
as you and l can. Except that they have
made up their mind that the chief comfort
in life of being an artistic is to be able to
do just as they darn please.
"Calve, struggling along as a hard
worked, ambitious, striving little French
girl; Geraldine Farrar, working hard and
not sparing herself; Eames, Nordca,