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Show THE SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1916. HERALD-BEPUBLICA- N, ftaiiMiiwiew )A1 111? MflvM . ' IT W 1 - TRi 1 C . v OP - II nn tin f V? f. A N-l- inr- j ; n fTwt ' v : File Broken Romance with Beautiful Eleanora Duse Inspired "The Triumph of Death," but the Wounds of War and a Woman's Faith Have Quite Changed a Famous Love Affair. lore romance of Gabriels hero and Eleanora Duse Is the herothe famous Italian ine of many of his stories. In his reand Eleanora Dose, the markable novel. "The Triumph of noted Italian actress, for years Inter, Death," it Is said that D'Annunzio in- THE rnpted and thought to have been broken, perhaps completely, as was the Ioto story In the writer's welW known novel. The Triumph of Death. haa been kindled anew. After a estrangement of 20 years a reconciliation has Just taken place between these two world noted geniuses la the most unexpected and romantic fasalon, which, if present Indications are of any eignificance, may well he called "The Triumph of Love." IXAnnunzIo's "Triumph of Death," In many respects his most sensational book; and one that has formed th theme of many psychological debates, does not "end happily." In this respect It is well named. The triumph." comes in the last lines. STJie mad whirl of a feverish romance, related with D'AnnunzIo's masterly dexterity, terminates In a horror. If the book has a "purpose" which the author might perhaps deny it is that of showing that a "mad" love cannot possibly end happily. The fever of this particular passion runs th gamut of emotions. It ransacks the whole neurotic range of sentiments, aspirations, delights, Jeal- -- tended his vivid pen picture of how "George'; ends all by seizing and leaping with her from a to tragclif, be a description of the romance love would end his edy that with. Eleanora Duse. But fate decreed otherwise, for In real life D'Annunzio returns from war badly wounded and a. nervous wreck, and Mme. Duse, the woman who has always loved him devotedly, but whom he cruelly wronged, hastens to. his side, thereby reversing the romance of D'AnnunzIo's morbid imagination. Hastens to Her Wounded Lover. "When the great Duse, who for years had been wearing out her soul in Paris for D'Annunzio, the famous romancer who Jilted her after a most remarkable series of love adventures, learned that her former admirer was in great danger of losing his eyesight as the result of an injury while scouting in an army aeroplane, she rushed to Rome to remain at his bedside, and with the tender devotion of her undying love nurse him back to health. Now all the world Is wondering if "Hlp-polyt- r- z,- - jv i r, S I ' e" - -- V a '- ' ('V- " !" --' ' - k? i - i . ii I J , '.ill kj i - 4- - v n ? ' ' V 1 "t . " , v '"":!" ' Vj i i 1 . Eleanora Duse, the Famous Italian Actress, Whose Love Quarrel with D'Annunzio Has Been Healed by the War. love, which she could best under- stand. age s in Gabriele D'Annunzio, Whose Wounds in the War Brought About His Reconciliation with Duse. ousles, laughter, tears, 'rapturous moments, torturing moments. When the gamut has been traversed and traversed again, when the momentum of a delirium has reached the breaking point, there Is nothing left but hate and death. Then the man drags the woman over a clifT. No better test for rational, love between man and woman has ever been furnished by the pen of Inspired Imagination. Will Love or Death Triumph? Readers of this book who heard of D'AnnunzIo's "break" with the adorable and equally temperamental Duse, and when this was supplemented by his own promise of suicide, were ready to exclaim, "It is to be a triumph of death!" But nature seems to have defeated art. Time and war and a woman's heart are all having something to say in determining the unfoldment of this extraordinary attachment. D'Annunzio has made the boast that his novels are taken from his own experiences, and that he is the self-respectin- g Duse's despair over the desertion of the man she has always so deeply loved is at last to be rewarded, but at the dreadful cost of her lover's eyesight? Will D'Annunzio who, before the war broke out, announced that in his feverish career he had exhausted all the possibilities of life and would kill himself unless he found something new to live for, at last find it in the love that Mme. Duse all these years has lavished upon him with all the wealth of the passion of her imperial nature? Or will D'Annunzio's strange, supersen- itself and brusitive nature as off cast he did twice beher tally fore? With the help of Duse's wonder ful, unfaltering love, D'AnnunzIo's physicians Bay they have hopes of saving his ej esight and restoring the poet to complete health. In addition to the wound received in his eye D'Annunzio is said to have greatly overfatigued himself by attempting to make 20 excursions in aeroplanes over Trieste, Gorizla and dther towns and also by making numerous voy re-ass-ert f dead-whit-e submarines, complexion. The follow' In which has resulted ing passage from a letter D'Annunzio shattering his nervous wrote to a friend is an illustration of his attitude toward women: sjstem. "I have known what it is to be a As the poet of Italy's war D'Annunzio accom- divinity. I have received the worship plished the most heroic of women. As I rose from my plunge feats of his campaign by In the glorious Mediterranean this inspiring his countrymen morning a duchess of the race of the with his patriotic Medici waited for me upon the shore. speeches and writings. She threw a purple robe over my As a result of his great splendid nudity. She held my white success along these par steed by the bridle as I mounted and ticular lines D'Annunzio was given rode away." the rank of lieutenant In the aviation The Apostle of Brutality. corps of the Italian army In order There Is no question about the that be might continue his splendid service. oratorical literary and genius of D'Annunzio, who Is regardD'Annunzio, it Is now admitted, ed as one of the foremost novelists did more to bring Italy into the war and a poet of renown. His books are than any other man. By his Impassioned speeches and true prose usually called morbid, and as the poems he fired the spirit of his coun- apostle of brutality, .his pleasure is trymen and caused them to decide to depict characters steeped in cruto stake their existence on a bold vice and heartlessness. This stroke against Austria and for a elty, greater Italy. For this reason the feverish romancer Is called a modern government of Austria has set a Boccaccio, but a black Boccaccio. The world has seen how D'Annunprice on D'Annunzio's head. zio made Mme. Lmse suffer and how D'Annunzio Amazing Treachery. the woman who, at so This wonderful genius whose love he repaid a made his plays sacrifice, of country has caused him to make great famous. Although he broke Duse's such supreme personal sacrifices is heart, he could not kill her love for the very same man who committed him. Ever since they parted Mme. the amazing treachery of describing Duse has been waiting for fate again In his novel, "Fuoco" (Fire), Elea- to bring her to him. Her work, her were nothing, but now nora Duse's love romance with him, art she said tenderly and devotedly to care for for the heroine, "La Tocarina," Is a him she declares to be everything. vivid portrait of the Italian actress "Now, when he is ill and blinded, and the story is like that of her love what does anything else matter," she for D'Annunzio. There has been no says. "Fame is a phantom. Only Is real, vital." scandal connected with Duse's love love The love which Eleanora Duse still for D'Annunzio, for her reputation lavishes upon D'Annunzio has been has saved her name. However, D'An- the growth of years. His morbid nunzio has shown himself true to imagination, as It was revealed to some of his own principal characters her in his books, appealed to her exof which he boasts he is a counter- cessively. Intensely fervid and brupart. tally realistic, he was the playwright D'Annunzio is described as being of her dreams. Her own countryvery fascinating to a certain kind of man, he could appeal to her in her women. He is tall, and has a curious own musical tongue, the language of Mme. Duse disputed with Mme. Sara Bernhardt for the first rights of "La Citta Morta," k terrible tragedy of crime. When "Gloria," another of D'Annunzio's works, was declared a failure and hooted and hissed in Naples, with Mme. Duse In the title role, still she declared that he was peerless in the realm of the drama. Once when she was seriously ill with Inflammation of the lungs, having succumbed, it was said, after three performances of D'Annunzio's she declared she would die before she would give up. She came near dying at the time, but she gratified the desire of the man of her love "Gia-conda- ," and was happy. And so in these days of war this wonderful woman gives still another example of her devotion by rushing to D'AnnunzIo's side at the first op- portunity. So overwhelming Is her 13 even enthralled in admiration of his morbid love for him. that she mind. Shortly after tshe met D'Annunzio Mme. Duse seemed to have become inspired with new life, new hope and new faith, and was no longer radiant for the stage only. Her friends say that it was not until then that she found her soul which she gave to Gabriele D'Annunzio, the man whose "Triumph of Death" has been denounced as corrupt and praised as a poem In prose. Duse's Wonderful Love. Duse fell at D'Annunzio's feet and he made a pretense of raising hei to his heart. She had really loved for the first time in her life, she said, and she credited the assurances of the man who had years of experience with feminine hearts and made no' secret of the fact. She thought she saw in the poet's eyes the happiness of life, but she did not know men of D'Annunzio's nature. In fact, she knew women only as they reflected the characters of her art. D'Annunzio, however, had known women since his 15th year, when he published hi first volume of poems. These were so erotic that they incurred the displeasure of the authorities" at Prato, where he was a student. Nevertheless, that was the beginning of D'Annunzio's fame. "Every one sought me," he said. "They burned Incense before me and H ow D'Annunzio Ended "The Triumph of Death" "George! George!" "Have no fear!" he said in a hoarse voice. "Come nearer! Come! Come and see the fishermen, fishing by torchlight among the rocks." "No, no! I am afraid of vertigo." "Come! I will hold you." "No, no." She seemed frozen by the unusual tone in George's voice, and a vague fright commenced to invade her. "Come!" And he approached her, his nands extended. Suddenly he seized her wrists, dragged her several steps; then he seized her In his arms, made a bound, and attempted to force her toward the abyss. "No! no! no!" She resisted with furious energy. She succeeded in disengaging herself, Jumped back, panting and trembling. "Are you mad?" she cried, choked by anger. "Are you mad7" But when she saw him come after her without speaking a word, when she felt herself seized with more brutal violence and dragged again toward the precipice, she understood" all, and a great, sinister flash of light struck terror to her soul. one minute! "No, George, no! Let me be! Let me be! Only ' Listen! Listen! One minute! I want to tell you Insane with terror, she supplicated him, writhing. She hoped to stop him, to move him to pity. "One minute! Listen! I love you! Forgive me! Forgive me!" She stammered Incoherent words desperately, feeling herself becoming weaker, losing her ground, seeing death before her. "Assassin!" she then shrieked, furious. And she defended herself with her nails, with her teeth, like a beast. "Assassin!" she shrieked, as she was seized by the hair, thrown to the ground on the edge of the precipice, lost. The dog barked at the tragic group. It was a brief and fierce struggle, like the sudden outburst of supreme hate which, up to then, had been smouldering, unsuspected, in the hearts of implacable enemies. And they both crashed down to death, clasped In each other's arms made a god of me. I appealed especially to, women. In. this lay a great danger for me. Love and praise intoxicated me. "Eager lor all its pleasures, I threw myself desperately into life with all the passion of my youth. I committed fault after fault, and I skirted a thousand precipices." Mme. Duse thought that a union of such a mentality as that of hers and D'Annunzio's would endure. In view of her recent return to the lover who deserted her, it seems that no amount of analysis or retrospection can destroy her belief. D'Annunzio did not have the same thoughts. After bending this great genius to his own selfish wishes and after enriching himself at the fountain of her own intellectuality, he brutally broke from her and cast her off to give up to the despair of a woman scorned. He an nounced himself as weary of the companionship of a woman seven years his senior. Then came D'Annunzio's treachery as revealed in his novel "Fuoco," which left Mme. Duse the dream that has filled her only life with an ambition fed by an undying love. " Mountains of Salt Huge masses of salt are to be seen in some sections of Roumania, for the salt deposits cover an enormous area and have a thickness varying from about 600 to 800 feet. At Sarat there is a mountain of salt, and steam shovels can be used to load the waiting cars. In other cases'the gallery system is employed, and machines turn out blocks a cubic yard in size, like great pieces of granite. . elec-trlcally-driv- sn I |