Show I REPORTS SAY CARUSO THE TENOR HAS i A PRETTY mCH AMERICAN I N U UM I II M J d r r r f i r y I I I ii lr ft J r w i I I At 1 r tt r K KI I I I r x f t I I I CJu New York o O Enrico 7 7 Enrico Caruso the famous operatic tenor declared today that his enemies were seeking to ruin him by spreading a report that he had secretly married Lillian G. G Berous Berous Be- Be rous rows a pretty prelLy Am American girl When seen een at the Metropolitan opera house I Caruso was waN greatly real wrought up over I what he lie termed the tho outrageous plot of his enemies I This lying stor story originated among I hitter titter enemies of ot mine mind in South I all allI America ho declared It Jt Is I fal false also o I never nc heard of ot her before It is all for the tho purpose to blacken m my character After It Jt was circulated i in South America It was wal sent to Germany Germany Ger Ger- many to turn my friends against me I Then it went to Ital Italy amid and thence to I France and now It has followed ll meto me me- meto meto to America It must be stopped I J haven't married anyone Cannot tho they thoy let me mo alone a minute I Carusos Caruso's taco face was tho the picture o of rage He flourished his hands In theair tho the air all while he ho talked He refused to speak of ot his former Cormer wife whom ho recently divorced because she was In Incapable incapable In- In capable of or appreciating his art arl According According Ac Ac- cording to an Italian paper no sooner ha had the infelicity of ot the tenor and his wife became becam known than ho he rec received leda l ed a letter lelLer from MI Miss Berous de describing herself as a beautiful American n girl gh with a lot of ot money mone j t The Italian paper quotes the letter as follows I am pretty young oung a afar as asfar asfar far as money mono goes there thele Is nothing tacking lacking to make the marriage desirable desirable desira desira- ble especially as I 1 sympathize BO so o deeply with your our solitude The paper says MYS that Caruso was not slow In answering tho the alleged missive missive mis mis- sive that a tweeting meeting was arranged an anthe and the marriage of oC the pair was solemnized solem solom- solemnized soon afterward |