The New York herald., 1922-03-26
MOTHER of "those" marriages has
''gone wrong"

~ gone wrong"
There is nothing vague or cryp-
tic in the designation "those" marriages.
In their fundamental character there are
but two kinds of marriages-the right and
the wrong. The right sort need no dis
tinguishing designation. Those" which
are set apart to be commented upon and
watched with foreboding, are the ones that
are wrong.
The latest of these to attract attention
and to point the inevitable morals that
Of the widely esteemed diva Nine. Matte
nauer and the young man who seems to
have had no ambition to become other
than the chauffeur he was when the Met
ropolitan Opera Company singer met him.
denouement of Nine. Matzenauer's ill
founded romance was attracting public at
tention there was another marriage going
wrong" which, because of the youth and
different stations of its principals, also
claimed attention. And now, a few days
later, this marriage also has come to it's
unavoidable unhappy climax This was
the union OF the chorus girl Geneva
Mitchell and the college student Robert
Savage, member of a conservative family
of more or less wealth and social position
Different in all Details age and position
of the participants-in one case the hus-
band was lifted" in the other the young
woman was to be introduced into a differ
ent station-yet in the same essential Of
mismating the two examples were the
same.
And then there was the regrettable out
come of the romance" of Geraldine Far
rar. another diva, and the actor husband,
whose talents and success are at least de-
batable, Mr.. Tellegen. Certainly those who
predicted. when this marriage was an.
nounced that it surely would "go wrong"
have been emphatically justified as
prophets. But 1t is an easy prophecy to
make, for nearly always they do go wrong.
Nine Matzenauer but few weeks ago
was asking her friends-and they are
legion and of international identity-to
congratulate her upon her immeasurable
happiness. Her new husband was much
younger than she-and he had been a
chauffeur, while she was the daughter of a
family with many generations of conserva.
tive breeding behind 1t and herself this
product OF long and earnest effort to ac-
quire the most intimate knowledge Of the
beauties of all the arts. Yet she believed
her love would cement a bond which clash
ing temperaments and breeding could not
endanger-that there would be a commu.
nifty of interests grow out OF fondness for
each other.
Now. so soon, Nine. Matzenauer is asking
a divorce. She admits-or declares-that
she was compelled to have her young hus-
band turned out of her house.
Robert Savage might have been expected
to find some lovely and gentle girl, of quiet
manner and the poise and qualities that
would blend harmoniously with the at
mosphere of his mothers drawing room
and his own later, and to have made such
young woman his bride with those cere-
monies which, somehow, would seem in
complete without the ministrations OF the
family pastor and the attendance OF a bevy
of pretty bridesmaids.
Instead, the young student sought ro-
nance at the cabaret, and was certain he
had found IL impersonated by the dancing
girl Of the chorus. in whose shrewd-if
merry-eyes could be detected the glints OF
much more wisdom than is given many
debutantes to acquire.
Immediately upon their MARRIAGE
hasty, unceremonious marriage, with
neither orange blossoms nor veil-the pub
lie became interested and doubted protes-
tations Of contentment and readiness for
the hard struggle toward material happi-
ness which confronts the young couple de-
MED parental blessings and thorough ac-
cord in facing the financial problems that
go hand in hand with the beginning OF a
career. The doubters again we're justified.
The chorus girl did not look kindly upon
even temporary future OF strugglesome
home building. The marriage is to be an
nulled-or such, at least, is the plan.
King Cophetua and His
Modern Prototype
Many beautiful and intriguing romances
have been written and played upon the