New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 12, 1919, Page 10

MME. GEOR! TE LE BLANC Singer and actress who became Maeterlinck’s wife eighteen years ago after a romance in which she played the role of hunter and he the hunted By Margaret C. Getchell IGHTE actress, weary of the life and the people of the stage, read a years ago a Dbeautiful book by & poet and ,philosopher, and fell in love with the author. She decided she would marry him. That the man was eccentric, reticent, unapproachab and that he disliked the “unreal peo- ple of the stage,” were obstacles which &he met and overcame. Before months engagement was many their an- nounced. First the world gasped with amaze. ment and incredulity; then it sneered and whispered stories of her life—for ghe was 2 woman with an interesting ; then it confidently proclaimed deriage would either never it would be of short wrong. I'or Maeterlinck, poet, philosopher, ist, and wife, Blanc, singer ana ppparent marital chateau of 300 Abbey of Saint. startles the nt that they hat immedi- [Vas granted married a The pres me into ying the “The a few of sait. As is well known he is hardly stran silent man, who peaks for days at a time and to live in perfect When a to play the title role horror of nterviewed. his wifa 1de” Maeterlinck he would not accom: any her and n sailed incognito, More succe: n order tc escape reporters. wkable still gag his nce in ‘he . in the “Blue Bird” rst wife, Mme. I vorced, played the part of led the children, Tyltyl and tvl, in quest of the Blue Bird of Happiness. It is the child Tyl vl known off the stage as Rene Dahon. who has become the second wife of the ian artist just as Betrothel.” sum- ideas of “predestination is given to the public knce, th t clear ound and for i our s comy ears bef was told that * & new one ready It was a he was window tryin an idca, a ph e tou ponped as in Dixi he war started and the own ruch that 1ts Wre Ameriea ot Time the was a yvoung English box Opera Comique. Paris. Marsh who fell in love with her, g fiancee at home and being ily. Then she in love with him erde T bro Comigu telling the career in & in this cessful of Maurice from your Emerson. T read inslate Pre a an the about. 1 to go back things read ast off by his fam- rangely enough, fe!l and when he finally to his home she b the messenger who de tion and to attempt sui does not which be hen she left announcing going to Maeter- s was Maurice er met. the Opera aid. when incide romantic her stay made a suc- ned a three a book Maeta phy enraptur T ar was like talking my mind had dreamed once and twice, and one night I remained awake all night. ‘T thou behind meet him love me. “Born the boos with an ht of the book and the mind 1 shall he must ‘He is mine. I shall love him; independent spirit, affaire the A ff time MAURICE poct, phijesopner, « nearl happy life in manna produced picture together food un- tty e give for r the it would Of the to tell Mad forty vears old » had become of “apha at the “Blue oeen a Norman family. where I Macterlinek, lived sought his acquaintance. It was people of womat told some one who -a man. He told me auvage,’ he de- especially the unreal I was ‘an unreal ' but I was real for the writer ¢ was d my friend, ‘Maeter- your imagination pic- old. he has 3 beard he has passed into ppointed. and yet et him, saying at T should like to love 2 daughter loves her mot have him as my love adopt him as a him iven and 1 was In for that mo- ment When T jooked upon my Maeter-: nek. Young, peautiful—a man amocng men. I shrieked out; I ran wildly after him afraid of me. He feared me, I wa never dr dressed most originally ed in the mode. I only the I wore a close-fitting gown with a T wore a di: cen my eyes. 1 re noe otl aflame 5 n; you are mine.' said. and I 1, overcome with m took his hand. He was audacity, as pitt He wa. ¥, so different 1ly he became interested in me ked pertinent . of my life S0 won derful, but so shy me questions of mysel and { told him the told him 1 nad two na the stage indif- realities, whimsical. pleas oving. and that other s the ewife self, the 1 could truth of all T s, one of joyous ferent to ure self w hou woman who would sacrifices 1ld and would be 1ind patient d enduring and In both I was In each T could be happy at but what T wanted was to have one dominate the other. I wa real woman. the serious cr dwelt with midnight oil over his ph Phy. and the woman who wanted to live some one real dom; make and who loyal ind ed the ture that purpose, to inate. ‘Maeterlinck listened in He did not know whether it was the truth after all. It was interesting and new in his expe- I was sensitive. T am sensitive and have al be and [ ‘You do Leave me and shall make vou believe in me.’ his nueer nea ~n sensitive me. A Startling Announcement love stili vy day for three Maeterlinck and told him every thought. I never €aw him. nor would I him. My let- ters 14 my story to him. He tried to see e, he tried “At . when I had no thought of zught but him he came to me ana we have loved for &ll time, tell you this to show you how woman is the aggressor.” And how was che announcement of this engagement received by others? Knowing Macteriinek and knowing the type of woman whom it i€ easy to § the amazement with which the starting in vain. after wiree mo: he was to wed news was received ~aid e wme o tiere warriage that “she has captivated Jwavs by her charms, not by her bon mots™ was his personal friends and the worid The general reaction among ose who cared for him is vpiced in following comment, Contemporary sent of his coming : large the switl: the announc rriage In Pa the an e Belgian dramatist \fsdame Greorgette Le Bianc ement tha to marry even after ulatad the with wonder Maeterlinck himse ewe, declare tl \elous attainmer terlinek jous wom; her charm: her ¥ In the 3re B with just the com ed Goethe endowed sibly, fortable ¢ ties which cu with etion won with which to fall in love he sort of discr Heine's housekeeper with the tenderness of son's Betsy. Perchance with his heart; muel John: Maeter- writers bride being friends of temporary prophesied If the e been un not ighteen years ave for a long ti together the world for enerally be. that the marriage turned out Madame Maeteriinck has had a dispute—a quar- rel! said, after they had been more than ten years. So seemed that we have neve: married strange it Fave heard our were queer has often 1 cervants telling others at we Sometimes they call us ‘crazy’ Lecal we never disagree, never quarrel 1ixe married people.” The abbey the old ang rild s0 larse cthe: if they w within its role of terpret ing his mood on } Absorbed in His Mme Art Maeter barom responds. Tt loes f he mocds in he blows warm blows cold, s veers s ponse to each of his moo glad h ad Suddenl try life tk impelled to res His wife ene. She writes s e ot age to come s ns the she is when when of calm coun elrs bea between fences st to the beautiful ded this o racks in calm tburat aster The cont that have prec amaze @ one but Mme linck the th t € rden, © Day after day the veek 2 time before this d fles froi di ke walks in the Paris orbe preaches the worship His van- 100d he good < pure and 1 lifted he: jeeply religious. speaks to hig wife > forgotten that she t atier she waits for him me once Tore communica- tive. the garden beside him reading or “Often For he seem the sors passing. tho who a few nights 1 peeped in upon scenes of re will cateh a glimpse of Mme. Maeterlinck quietly darning stockings for her remarkabls husband. Again bending over the the a dish that back pleasures. neig fore have 1 velry she stove in is caleculated to bring him thly kitehen concocting to the contemplation of ea ntly h hol For hours they si their garden nd mel T e she did not age. but ieavs the ¢ contin cla in her wa y fon oles with mu ently records ot fre scere betweer and in at had bee wife desirec Romance Collapses With War mos usual ‘Land of Hap piness the wa wrecked that cld abbey Did the beau home the German shells wreck gments of happir this marriage wh reralded as “idea e between Maete; wife began ding to his friend the k also last fra maining in been been shattered t possible that might have, heir old way of ealing from the many admire W continued in oducing Burgo. e