Show rl i I l T How the Mad Jealousy of ofa a New A SyA 1 t York Artists Artist's Wife Sla l lt f i Masterpieces Into Ribbons 1 Sent Him to a Prison Cell t x rn f l 1 r jF aa J and P Nearly f hM f i te C Cost ost Her rt t n i 19 I 1 5 r rn 44 6 I rh r t tC f T i I Own j b t kj b i t Life w i h a H t ro y rl t yF E 15 V s 4 t i pS 7 r 1 d u fr r rt L 1 t 4 T S i e eT i i j t R r y e t I i J Y Yi k ka 4 eb b 1 I g gh 1 fix a r rv t e h to tot t v f 1 r F 1 I f e y F Y w aF aFt t ti y r 1 j- j x i r r Tg f f WF M tw t x n 4 3 31 1 i f i t Lc t N r Lf 6 r ar arb b 41 a f ra I lr r l 4 r 6 s i f tt y j ly j d v t lb t Rudolph the enter entert yX t t r o Y t J Jf v bug a y w rj r who has learned Fow hope hope- M 4 f i w 6 f less it was to use any f s 's S LV 1 1 hs wife fora rn I f i Ti 1 I v vI I I II I An artist artists artist's model whose face and andI I figure have bave been the inspirations for many celebrated paintings F YOU had had your ear car to the key key- keyhole keyhole keyhole BF IF hole of a II certain artists artist's studio in New Yorks York's picturesque Greenwich Village one night not long ago you would have heard the sound of great tearing sobs the sound of a woman oman crying as asif asif II if her heart was as about to break And a little later latel if you ou OU had looked into the dim candle ht room with Ith paint paInt- paIntings paintings paintings ings hanging everywhere of life and haired bobbed scantily clad girle OU would have witnessed as dramatic a scene as perhaps even this region of many stirring dramas eser ever saw sa The heart of the sobbing woman in tho studio was as really breaking that night as the dents that followed quickly have clearly prove proved d She was as Suzanne the wife of an ambitious artist artist and she Ehe as so tortured by jealousy that she could bear no longer longcr the idea that her artist husband was painting the charms of other women omen She had reached the the breaking point at last after months of brooding in secret and many another night like this of wb- wb sob sobbing ob- ob bing bmg alone in the studio Now Ith w ith tear tear- tearstained tear stained stained haggard face she was staring fixedly and wildly at the picture which her i her husband Rudolph had just finished of the red-headed red model that she hated most of all Suddenly her sobs ceased and she i threw back her head with a harsh laugh a little insane and strange as if some diabolical idea had amused her In an- an another an another other second she rushed into the tho kitchen sharp and returned witha with a long sharp bladed knife Several times she strode up an and d down the room as if undecided an anthen and d then with another vengeful look leok at th the e j teasing smile on the face of the un I draped undraped girl in the picture she ehe made a i lunge at the canvas with the knife an and d tore the smiling face straight across wit wita wita Ith Itha h a wide gash That seemed to give her new strength and she rhe went ent on slicing and sawing at atthe a athe the canvas camas until the artists artist's workweeks work o of weeks was as slashed into ribbons that flut fiu grotesquely in the draft from the th open window With another triumphant laugh she ah pulled down from the walls other pIC pi c lures tures of the red-headed red girl ripPIng and an A tearing at her painted flesh with 8 Sava jO joy At last somewhat appeased ShE sh contented herself with cutting a fe triangular pieces from the bobbed haJ hall ha I J S 'S and making long a i r- r gashes from cor cor- cor corto to toner ner to corner of n j the last two ho pie pie- pic i tures tures i No sooner i ws lIS the work ork work l it L ill It tc f of destruction t lit s Sill finished fi S J than h 0 f the light went Ii out of poor little t tl ta 1 l a d Suzanne's eye eyes s t and she collapsed ion 1 lY t on the nearest Arll chair All AlI the fiendish joy f J if of her vengeance was as l i over ovel and md with the I ic- ic action ic-action c actIOn came the realization realization tion hon of the grief and anger her husband would feel when hell he h e came home and found all his prized prize d masterpieces hopelessly ruined Novel Neel she thought could she face him better better to kill herself and es escape the whole hole thing for good So she groped her way into the ned nett room and hastily opened a box of pOison tablets ts swallowing them before she could hate ha e time to think any more about whether she really wanted to die or not Rudolph came home hoire in time to hear henr her creams of agony as the poison began Its deadly work ork lie gave her hei an nn anti anti- antidote antidote antidote dote called an ambulance and poor ittle jealous Suzanne was rushed to the hos has petal pital where here the doctors said that she hada hada had a chance to live But e even esen en when hen she reco recovered ered and came home again agam the question of models came up and Suzanne continued to be jealous of ludolph's painting them She also continued to threaten suicide and every Cry tune time she heard at the studio door the voice of one of the Village beauties who ho posed for Rudolph she he declared she sh would take another do doze e of the pOison i tablets S There v ere era bitter quarrels for Ru- Ru Rudolph Ru dolph declared his wife had no season cason I for foi her jealousy and thought it Cl cruel uel and wicked of her hei to interfere with Ith his hl artistic ambitions One night she had hai him arrested for or cruelty to her Rudolph had once been qUIte contented to paint only his Ills pretty little French wile Ire In those days g was perfectly delightful ul in m the little VII loge lage studio But there was as trouble un- un Unending un unending ending when he announced that his s wife's fe charms were no longer enough enough to t o heI hd inspire re fresh work worb of art and that h he I must find himself a model mode of quite a diC ferent erent type of beauty beauty- i The romance of Rudolph and Suzanne e r began overseas when hen he lay v wounded In i n an American base hospital She was wa s o 0 i An innocent nt and appealing pose but ore one that might add fuel to the flames flame of jealousy in an artists artst's wife then the prettiest of French Red Cross nurses nunes utterly charming m in her big e hito headdress and with her big bro brown n e eyes es and soft mouse-colored mouse hair TheOr The Or very sery first first thing Rudolph did when hen he became convalescent in m the army hos hospital petal pital was ns to pull out his palette and brushes and begin the Gist of ble ble pictures of her At that time he forgot all about Ills his models mode at home in Greenwich Village and ho he decided that he had found the prettiest subject in the world Whenever Suzanne wasn't busy with her hospital duties he painted hei hel and he and he went ent on painting her until he went ent back to tho the tI benches caches enches Then they were married and Suzanne came back with her ler Rudolph to Green Greenwich wick Village and continued to pose for hUll hiss and he continued to be contented with Ith his one model for a 11 long time Wh When n the sad day came me when Rudolph fet eft the need of a new kind of mS inspiration Lion tion Suzanne didn't say much but she thought a great grent deal In fact she brood brood- id td and brooded until the little gl green een monster had a ven vers firm hold on her poor little heart henrt and she lost all her one time vivacity and merry ways She would lie he in the next room at night and listen with Ith jealous fury UlY to the laughing voice of the fhe model Rudolph had chosen for tor the evening As time went wenton wenton wenton on she became more and more assured that tho lure of these other models was as keeping Rudolph away ay from her hold hold- lag ing him in the studio until unearthly hours of the night making milking him forget alt alf about his wife l e There was w as ns one model whom she sho hated most of all This one was younger than herel her elt with burnished red-gold red hur- hur hour lir quite different from from Suzanne's which IS not at all red or golden Rudolph couldn't resist the of that hair hur he admitted it himself and he was as all wrapped rapped up in his c earnest effort to transfer to his C canvases s something of its fascinating beauty And so it went ent on for months and months Suzanne who ho had once mixed ga gayly Iy in the studio parties became more and more morose At the tho same time her hervery sery cry tall and handsome Rudolph with J hip hi artistically long blond hair became more and more popular in the tho various artous picturesque picturesque esque haunts of the artist al folk who life lie In this imitation of the Parts Paris LatIn Quarter Poor little Suzanne Suzanno reached the dra ra matic climax of her jealousy on the night that brought bro her more moro dead than alno aliso into the suicide ward ard in one ono of the bIg city hospitals On that night she Bhe says she worked hel herself self elf up into believing that Rudolph had gone to one of the tho Greenwich Vii Vii- Vil Village lage loge parties 1 with Ith ith the red headed model a thing he lie had never done before to knowledge As she sat alone in m the can lit candie-lit lit lIe studio she was tortured beyond reason by the white Inte flesh and annoyingly smile on the face fac of the painting of tha that t same red-headed red girl Sobbing bitterly she the threw herself herse across the divan in m d despair and tried to toshu shu shut the hated face from view siew But It haunted her and in m spite of herself she looked up at it once more There Thero she that was was that horrid little creature who ho wouldn't leave Rudolph alone and who was as now being admired and studied as she once was sins And here was Rudolph now Out with her lier in ono one of the Village tearooms laughing about l n F T w r ra rt 1 r a to i Mrs Suzanne fP t 1 t- t the latest x I surprising example r 11 a of the desperate A y ya a fit lengths to which a wife k d dx x 1 1 y of can the be models driven by her ber Jealousy artist f N husband p paints ints poor Suzanne who was becoming such a wreck Or was as he searching for still stillmore more of these hateful inspirations Oh If she slie only could destroy that horrid g ag- aggravating ag aggravating smile and smile and why not She enjoyed the job while wIllie she was ns doing every It-every it every rip of t the e canvas as she explained later gave her a satisfaction past description the satisfaction of de- de destroYing destroying de destroying at least in effigy nai which she considered had deprived her of her handsome artist husbands husband's love and ad- ad admiration ad admiration But when I had finished slashing the cn canvases my rage alto also was as 0 over o er she explained later in the hospital I didn't take the poison out of jealousy but bitt I did spoil the pictures because I hated that gIrl so I tried to kill myself because I Iwas Iwas was as afraid to face Rudolph after ruin rum ruining ruining ing mg his hard WOI work k of so ninny many months When she came to her senses in the tho hospital Suzanne talked incessantly of the models who ho had lured luied her Rudolph away aay from flom her and pal particularly of one with fiery red hair It was as the same when she came home hone again She was not satisfied with her husbands husband's declara declaration tion to paint hereafter no one but her herand and at last she had him put in a prison cell where here she thou thought ht the women omen who ho wouldn't lease leae e him alone couldn't find hun What was ns the right thing for Rudolph to have done when hen confronted by his wife's Insane unreasoning y Should he have hale yielded to it and sacrificed sacrificed his artistic ambitions by giving up the models in whom hom his brush found such happy inspiration That is a difficult question question and one with which doubtless almost every cry e ery mar mar- married married ried al artist is at some time timo or other brought face to face The artists artist's at- at attempt at attempt tempt to answer it is seldom attended by such spectacularly unhappy results as in the case of the but it is nevertheless a stumbling block to the tho happiness o of countless al artists and their wives Many years ears ago a French writer Bald that thel there e was only one way for a painter or 01 sculptor to find peace and happiness in marriage and at the same time tin success in his profession by using for his model only his wife Ife A large number of famous artists artist have done this very velY thing but non of them has ever explained he chose this course because ho thought It the only way out of his hii dilemma or be- be because be because cause he was as really convinced that ha could never hope to find any more satis satisfactory 11 factory inspiration than his wife's charms e supplied Since Sir John Lavery the great Eng Eng- English lish hah artist married a beautiful Chicago woman oman he has hns painted no one but her EHlY woman oman he puts on his much ad ad- ad ad ed canvases is an nn idealization of his wife's chal chaining face and figure With Charles Dana Gibson the dis- dis distinguished distinguished dis distinguished American artist it has hns teen much the same Game The Tile Gibson girl he made famous is a faithful portrait t of the Vir Virginia ginia beauty he married many sears 3 ears ago and with ith whom hom he is living ll happily to this da day But although for an artist to use only Ills his wife for his Ills model may be a goodway good gooday goodway way ay to insure domestic happiness art Critics do not think it a J that is at atall atall atall all conducive to the best work worl of which a man mall is capable No one woman oman they sa say can be charming enough to supply all the inspiration needed by the painter or sculptor of genius genius It is felt that the greater the variety of models from which he lie has to choose the b better results he will achieve Beautiful as Lady Lavery is the pub pub- pub public lic he is getting rather rattier fed up with the portraits of her which crO crowd d the art and stores and the homes of fashionable society people And many mall of the critics are convinced that Sir Johns John's genius would oll d achieve far greater rca ter things if he would not persist lD in limiting himself to this tins 01 m o e model But l perhaps SIr Sr John LaHry would rather sacrifice ce a II liege measure of fame than risk scarring Marring his happiness with the wife to whom hom he is so devoted Certainly Cert there seems no present likelihood of his giving Lad Lady Ln Lavery Cry the least possible cause for such jealousy as that which tor- tor tor tortured poor Suzanne Sudell so that her friends fear she may lose her mind I f |