San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-17

chasers and chase a few themselves.
The American woman knew that, when
the great Maxim Gorky had visited her
country with lady whom he had not got
ten around to marrying, he had been
put out of hotels and found himself Gin
Dutch in various ways. Therefore. much
as she hated the idea, Miss Duncan, before
sailing for the United States, made what
to her was the supreme sacrifice of
marrying.
The first result, so she says, of doing
the right thing by the lad was that his
epileptic fits came back on him and re-
Cured regularly at ten-day intervals until
his death. She almost had one herself.
when both were held up at Ellis Island.
because marrying the Russian had cost
the American woman her citizenship in this
country.
The authorities finally permitted the
two apostles of emancipation to enter the
country, but their troubles had only be-
gun. In October, 1922, soon after arrival.
Mayor Curley declared her dance shock
ing, and barred the "red'' dancer from the
Boston stage. Misfortune logged her
steps. Christmas night, at the BROOKLYN
Academy of Music, she had to cancel an
engagement because she had been drink
ing champagne. She explained that it
was not the quantity that caused the
trouble, but that the Interests" had put
something into it.
In Chicago, month and a half later
she was penniless and had to borrow
money to get her and her boy-friend hus-
band back to Paris. The year 1923 was
Just one blow after another. The Hotel
Crlllon, in Paris, elected the pair because
the. poet laureate had smashed everything
breakable in their room during an epilep-
tic or poetic fit.
From the next hotel Essenin ran Shrek
ing down the fire-escape at dead of night,
never stopping until he reached Tree Rus
Sla again, and there he burst into song
But Lenln was dead, and the poets verses
were unoTthodOx in some details. so the
Sovlets put their poet laureate in prison
for month. When he was released. Mrs.
Essenin followed and tried to live with
HIM again, but he slammed the door and
had fit. Russia, her adopted land of
freedom, got the idea that Isadora was
having bad influence on its poet and
asked her to please go to some other coun-
try. Late in 1923 she divorced Essenin
in Moscow, which only cost her few
minutes time and a five-dollar fee. and
departed
In 1924 she was held for a hotel bill in
Berlin, and in 1925 France, which is not
at all fussy country, refused to allow
her to cross the border from Belgium,
though she was all ready.to open another
of those dancing schools. A fly-bite
caused blood-poisoning and made a sur
gical operation necessary to save her life.
1t was just one wretched, annoying thing
after another until last year closed with
the news that Essenin had committed
suicide.
With the blood flowing from veins he
had severed in his wrists, he wrote the
following last poem to an unknown friend,
possibly friend wife:
Farewell, my friend, farewell
Dear one, feel you still in my breast;
Our fated parting betokens meeting
ahead.
Till we meet again, my friend,
Without hand or word
Don't miss me and don't sadden your
brow,
To die is not new in this life, but TO live
is naturally not newer