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O E E ach cl Other Without r Story 5 o o of Famous Actress an and World World Known Art Collector sY F Ma Wills Matching Matching h Wills ng-Wills Wills in iT to Year Twenty Year Fight Fi ht fC for Mastery Which He En Ended ed With a Sh h f r II t l I j F Fj II jo l I 1 V t j 51 1 o r c L L L 1 t r t r 1 f k 1 J r rr rJ 1 i gIr 7 r e i ri r r i o 4 F Y I d t. t of 1 ter r 1 J I 4 1 I Ir 1 I r t. t 0 c rb 1 4 L k Jr f While his la lawyers i were ere disc discussing g th the details of Paul Cassirer's Cassirer s settlement settle settle- settlement i ment meat on his wife prior to their divorce a shot was heard in the antero anteroom m of the offices Cassirer a nationally known figure in w world art circles b. b x S had inflicted a wound from which he died a short hort time lat later r yr I f y t y Berlin THE PHE HE other day in Berlin a man of in in- if reputation committed sui sui- tk cide He Ile shot himself in the anteroom f fj of or his lawyers lawyer's offices after he had signed t papers settling the busi business side of tyis relations relations- with his wife from whom after r I twenty years of marriage he was about to get a divorce I. I The man was Paul Cassirer collector S dealer connoisseur writer writer politician tJ a bon and gourmet one of the most 1 r representative figures of the modern v Great World in Berlin that Berlin that curious exotic society so new luxurious and in intense intense intense in- in tense which has ho no counterpart anyS anywhere any anywhere S 'S where in Europe The bare facts of the tragedy we were cabled to the press of ot the world because Cassirer is a name known among collectors the world around i I S But the story which lay behind it and the personalities involved in it will make mike it ft a weeks week's sensation in Berlin It is the 7 story of the fight of twenty years between between be be- tween two demoniacal cal temperaments of S two persons of genius genius- the brilliant versatile ver- ver f man the woman who has sto stood d at of Berlin theatre life for for fo a quarter of a century whom age could not wither nor custom stale i the actress Tilla Durieux Paul Cassirer Is dead dad Germany has lost the man who has had more influence on on her taste in the last thirty years than I any other one person The man who made the French impressionists known 4 and appreciated in Germany who discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered such geniuses among the Get Ger- Ger- Ger Germans 4 mans themselves as s Oscar Y Yie and Ernst Barlach whose house was the ie center of all that was most modern and brilliant in its guests which he drew from all ranks of f society in its furnish furnishings furnishings ings in its kitchi kitch kitchen n which he himself conducted and which was famous among mong gourmets in half a dozen nations THE pHE HE woman for whom he shot himself I lives on A ghostly figure muffled in crepe leaning upon the arm of of her lawyer she appeared at the funeral the cynosure of all eyes eyes-eyes eyes eyes curious and eyes hostile Other persons have shot themselves for Tilla TilIa Durieux but this man man Cassirer W was s her husband and in a away way she pronounced his death sentence 4 i V When she took a of ot clothes z and moved from his house into a hotel in L Unter den Linden some somo weeks ago no noone noi i one was much surprised Cassirer and The Durieux as all Berlin calls her before But when she 7 had separated entered ent entered en- en I t proceedings for divorce Berlin wasl was N. N l t. t surprised Tile The Durieux definitely breaking with C Cassirer this strange wild tormenting relation once and for all severed These two who had so m many ny r J. J times and so bitterly quarreled only y rw inevitably to become reconciled t so par part and parcel of each other they were were it it t 5 was incredible But this time th the e strange cool ind indescribably fascinating l woman was implacable Half an hour before the scene in the lawyers lawyer's office in intimate in- in A t. t friends of both of th these se artistA artists artist s came to Durieux and begged her to take tak e i Cassirer back just once more r It It will not go well welt with him If IC you d do donot o not not they pleaded Take a long j journey 1 if you ou will or permit him to do So agree f that you OU shall not see each other again agai n i for half a year do not even agree t to o return to him ultimately simply sa say y y r S six months hs to decide that you will take ake on 11 said The Durieux quietly e No uNo no II firm firmly y And a fl few minutes later Cassirer r i S' S Was lying mortally wounded u. u 1 t. t My This twenty years' years relation is one o of f j z I a r th the immortal love stories When Paul Cassirer and and Tilla Tills Durieux joined th their ir lives together neither of them were young Tilla Durieux was already Une femme de trent treat ans at the head of her profession and a d divorcee and Cassirer had also been heen married before and ha haa had hada a child Twenty years they lived together together together to- to gether during all of which t time Du Durieux bec became me older and is today at an age when most women ar are s settled into a comfortable and going easy-going acceptance ot of o olife life with grandchildren perhaps around their knees I But this marriage never be became amean ame an ane e easy chair the sit-by-the-fire relationship After twenty years rs of m marriage ge contemplating contemplating contemplating plating s separation from this woman Cassirer Cassirer Cas Cas- shot himself as a boy disappointed in his first romantic love might do violente vio- vio lente to himself out of a wild unconquerable unconquerable unconquerable romantic infatuation Their life Hie together was miserable bl through twenty years they q quarreled arr led bitterly passionate tearing heart quarrels such as very young couples have Both had dev devastating stating tempers The clashes of will between these two strung high-strung cf creatures tures sometimes had absurd d denouements as as as wh when n a Berlin policeman came upon The The- Durieux Durieu running furiously in her nightgown nightgown nightgown night night- gown through gh the Tiergarten in the dead ea of night Having suddenly decided again to leave home an and done so without more Theirs was a tJ mutual never never- ending fight for mastery never-ending never because they were equally matched eq equally ally talented equally brilliant equally rich in temperament After their quarrels quarrels quat- quat they Were always drawn toward each other again inevitably Drawn again to each other ether to match the swords of their wits wit and their wills witts sentenced it seemed to an et eternal rhal warfare without which neither of them could live Neither could find another nother mate nate Neither could find another person with whom life tite would not In comparison seem banal Their most intimate friends knew with terror- terror stricken ap apprehension that this se separation separation ara- ara tion would have no usual cons consequences of weeping for a time a and d t then en getting over it That final no of ot Durieux th that t final signature on the papers of settlement settlement settlement settle settle- ment was says half Berlin Cassirer's death sentence NO O ONE can ca can fa fathom ho the human J heart eart x l Was Vas C Cassirer's s act one cf of l resignation tion Did it After say saYI these many years year you Tills Tilla T have ha at last conquered I Ithe the fight for me is is over Or Was teas it the thelast thelast thelast last sword thrust in the fight a triumph triumph- ant thrust ant thrust 1 Did he say with it You think you have won but see I shall win after all aIt because I am prepared to make the gre greater ter sacrifice a 7 No Noone one can tell but conquer Cassirer did When they took him mortally wounded to the hospital hos hos- pital Durieux went with him Through the thirty hours during which he lay between life lite and death she sat with him When he turned to her and said You will never leave me now Tills Tilla she ho whispered quickly No no n never ver never again What will be become of The Durieux i 1 Th There r was no element of f Jealousy in inthis inthis inthis this relationship A woman of violent temperament who proudly asserted that she h stood above all bour morals it was never ever charged either cither b by the public or by her most intimate friends that she shewa wa was ever unfaithful to Cassirer There is so far as aa any anyone one knows no other man in h her r life She stands at the head of her profession but sh she has no new laurels to win For h her r there cah can only t I 1 1 The he death mask of Paul i Cassirer has y M the sa sad sL mysticism of ofa ofa Berlin is speculating on ort the effect of Cassirer's suicide on The J a secret unfolded and Durieux who is alone in in her niche of theatric fame as the most J magnificent r Hedda edda G Gabler bler who ever trod the German stage 1 adea ly r t bought vf triumph i. i ii i. 0 a ac c I Ir h 0 I i r 1 S y c S p pe e r o M ii S f r. r S. S i 11 p r S 4 j When Cassirer and a 1 n d dT T Till Tilla i 11 a Durieux were married twenty years ago ago neither was young and The Durieux as she is is c called a I led had achieved high fame as 1 an actress and her het herlong long thin b body dY s seems seems- to have held time at bay be a declining sun and her best hope i is that it dan can an decline in the glory of ot a Sarah Bernhardt or a Duse that she may not die tie half Her lIer best hope is that P people ople will sa say y of her She Sh was the most magnificent the most unforgettable Hedda Gabler Who ho ever trod the German stage Will wm she like an m old warrior wilt and f fade de denow now that the fight is over Or will witt she conjure up out of ot herself new stores of or oren en energy to prove that she exists in and of herself harsel Here again her m most st intimate intimate inti mate friends cannot prophesy Her first reaction to Cassirer's death was to return re- re urn turn td her hotel an and take an overdose y d r d of a drug Fri Friends watching witching her movements movements move move- ments carefully discovered it in time But sin since e that first hysterical moment she has been calm CASSIRER will bo be greatly missed Inthe in inthe inthe the world where inhere he was so dominant a figure in the society of or Which he ha was a center i if ii indeed it can be called a so so- so It is a world which follows none of the usual rules but since the collapse of the old re regime and the end of th thI the I court it is is the only society which the German metropolis has Here is none of the atmosphere which pervaded the theold theold theold old court society of strictest etiquette of ot solemnity of careful exclusiveness nc according to family a society where Drecoll and Worth made the elegant and discreet clothes Modern Berlin society has a flavor however however coarsened of the society under the decadent d days ys of or the Medicis l Like that it Jt is founded upon the fortunes of ri rich h bankers ls l's and nd industrialists who amuse themselves by patronizing the arts and h l unlike the old society it flourishes flourishes flour flour- ish s in an atmosphere of f the greatest luxury and extravagance FRIENDS FRIENDS recall the last time they saw Tilla Durieux and Paul Cassil Cassirer r. r It It- was at a house where the they were often g guests ests a house which h is the center of oi the society just described It is no feudal palace p lacel bearing in fn it in-it it the remembrance Cf Gf generations of tradition It has be been n built in inthe the last years Its halls are wide its furnishings voluptuously soft and low its b bathrooms spacious numerous and catering to the most refined lux- lux i e ury loving tastes its owner O d a Berlin multimillionaire A guest comes two hours hours' late for f r dinner from a concert I but that is of no consequence in a house where everything is luxuriously casual In the picture gallery ry under brilliant crystal lights surrounded by the ri rich fh h colors of and Van and fifty persons frequently sit at a long table laden with fruit and flowers flowers flow flow- ers it was Berlin but the women wore 1 gowns from Paris Parts and the men slack black clothes tailored in Saville Row From the t table rises a hum of ot hushed intimate voices punctuated now and then by a sharp laugh or 01 b by a phrase flung the length of tho board and taken talen up for fora a few Sev moments played with lith and tossed aside Dinner is served in various stages to suit the time of arrival l of the various guests Some are eating pinK salmon with caviar some picking daintily at a partridge some toying with an ice Actresses were there still dark around the eyes from th the paint of a performance barely over art dealers and connoisseurs constantly in bri brief f heated discussions aristocrats amused and relaxed in this society SO unlike their own poor painters paint aint ers who seemed for the moment promising promising promising promis promis- ing journalists who wrote about art radical politicians who defended the wrongs of or the working classes in Parliament Parliament Parliament Parlia Parlia- ment and got home in time to dress for tor dinner at this luxurious house where everything modern is the mode e even to politics A curious combination this society of wit and boredom of ot young oun enthusiasm and c nic sm of radicalism ruthless capitalism of talent and artistic snobbery Whether one s sees eS her on the stage staga l or in such a society Tills Tilla U is n a fi figure ure to 1 remember m Exceptionally tall she has today the attenuated body of a Fr Preach French doll doni with extravagantly t long ng thin limbs S She e is of t a 8 fascinating ugliness from the standpoint of the Philistine of a tI diabolic beauty from th tha viewpoint of the painter Her clothes clothes' are usually lly of the most elegant elegant ele ele- legant le- le gant and expensiVE sim simplicity and nd W well ll they may be be because ause her husband once remarked to a friend Tilla is spending fifteen thousand a month 35 O on gowns al alone alone an he an enormous figure especially especially espe espe- e. e wh when n one oM considers that the gre great t of Berlin charge her Virtually nothing for the advertisement of dressing dressing dress ing her Not fewer ewer than seventy p pairs paira of shoes Wait in her wardrobe to be selected seleCted se selected se- se for those slim feet Seeing her sitting curled up In a great lowb low backed sofa with a dangling slender leg she looked in th the light half like a tall taU girl Her body is amazingly supple and she kC keeps pS it so by rigorous gymnastics eVer every day But her face is old as old as one of those masks of At At- lantis She has had everything that li life has to offer fame wealth a position inthe in inthe inthe the only society which would anyhow please her the adoration of one of Berlins Berlin's Berlin Ber Ber- lins lin's s most gifted men And what she has hag done with it all in the innermost depths of her personality is a riddle And it is a riddle how bow Berlin Bertin will receive her when she returns to the stage because Cassirer was immensely popular and his d death th is felt to be both botha a public and private Joss loss P pA PAUL AUL UL CASSIRER was an allro round all nd t tal- tal l. l ent Hd He made his exhibition rooms the center of Berlin Bertin artistic life his bis approval ap roval the hallmark of quality He lie distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- himself himsel in a measure as a writer He IIo took one fling at lit architecture and built a house designing every eVelY detail of its furnishings and decorations which is a show place ace of Berlin Both he and his wife wire have been shrewd and brilliant business organizers who have made a |