Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 1 | Noted Doctor Divorces Japanese Opera Singer

I N Noted ot d Doctor Divot Divorces es Jap Japanese Opera OpeIa Singer DES MOINES ES Iowa Dec Dee 1 Mine Japan Japanese lIe prima donna announced hero here today TO- TO nay day she had bad received word that her husband Dr Masataro laS taro noted Japanese had been granted a divorce from Cron her In the courts of Tokio J JIS p n. n Mme Ime lIura la is Is here with the San Carlo opera to sing in th th title role of Madame Butterfly atthe at atthe atthe the Coliseum I I The Tho divorce she said ald today w was the tho result of a mutual agreement ment between her herself lf and sad her ber husband i iho who ho Is III one of ot Japans Japan's most moat noted I physicians a postgraduate of Yale Tale university bolder holder of or a t ship In Tokio er university lt and nd Int nationally famous as s an experimenter I menter with Talking through rough an n er erand land and breaking Into the co conversation 1 directly at Intervals In a broken I English tongue she explained to a of or the Associated I I Press that because she 1 U I. following her art In the western world and her IB ii kept at home ome omo with S. o j experiments and scientific study they agreed some months ago aso through several Int interchanges of ot letters that a separation was au lie Ho i Is a groat man she saidI said I esteem him and think him a wonderful doctor But Dut I Iam Iam Iam am happy In my art traveling In America and nd rope to st Madame ladame Butterfly tho the o opera rl or ot ormy otI l my iny own country and its Ita folk tolk And I l ho lio works all day In the laboratory I and must come at night and I annot air an not there I talked to him about arranging so 80 both of ot us might not be ba bound by meaningless bonds of matrimony when I w w him last lut lutIn In a year ago this thU summer lie He thought he be did not warn want a divorce then Now tie he has hall decided Jt tt i la Is best let and we have agreed with this thin result I Dr Mutra hi his hi former wife wire ad I 1 a about 40 years year of ot age They had bad no children TIPSY Q were rere ere marI married mar mar- tied ried eight yr years m O. O following j I Mme ime md graduation n from a n lUU C ator w