Show i io I j T Ta o a a a a ao I OI QI o M l as Q oa o 0 Ii 1 II I Olga s Piano Playing at All Hours Got on Leopold I IU Y U r ij V Nerves as Badly as His Eternal L t i i x t Baton Waving Got on I a t al f fL L s v va a aBO BO f t- t I V Hers and Hers and bo So They fi hey P Pa Are Y T Parting w a I r Y A A'S S 'S vT ire k y Y Yz G Ir rt z f tk v r k 11 s 's k PF yr y gr 4 Z vp e va I I It t I 1 sl r y 1 dy e eUF p EAta w x e r t p C y yr r a i e Y c li i i s l I r I Irh rh ryr d dr df dL r f Y L r 1 K R G g rr rs 4 r II I I 1 I 4 s 3 r N Ns l 1 I a r l r rt o a 3 I c I i 1 f fr r 1 y t r THEN HEN two great musical gen gen- geniuses genf WHEN W f fuses luses fall in love with each other and marry they do not In find find- findIng finding find finding seem to be bo any more successful ing enduring happiness than t two 0 sculptors sculptors tors tom or two poets or two painters or two geniuses of any other kind The community of interest that is u- u es established by their devotion to the same art falls all to pieces when it comes to sharing the same samo house and drinking their breakfast coffee together morning after morning In fact many students of the marriage problem aro are coming to the conclusion that two geniuses should never and marry marry and particularly not when they are both disciples of the same art The latest matrimonial duet to get out of tempo and hopelessly off the key is that of Leopold the bril- bril bril brilliant ilant leader of the Philadelphia Orches Orches- Orchestra Orchestra Orchestra tra and Olga one of tho the great grest- i est eat living pianists For nearly ten years they lived to- to together together to together gether In what hat seemed to be the most c symphonic of harmony In fact the tho world was wa beginning to think that hero I at last was as an exception to the rule that two great musical artists are seldom able to be happy together for very long But alas for all the hopes that the matrimonial duet was as to bo be played through without a break I For several months it has been rent by as ugly discords as any country band was ever guilty of At last the haired golden golden golden- haired conductor has thrown do down n his baton in disgust his tempers mental wife has kicked over her piano stool lust Just as disgustedly and now they are aro waiting for tho the courts to tear up the I score of the love duet they tried to play and call the whole thing off I Curiously enough the tho very music on which the skis fame rests is be- be believed believed be believed to be bo at the bottom of all their matrimonial troubles The art that originally originally originally drew them together has driven them hopelessly apart Just as too many cooks cats cat's calif spoil a broth so too many sharps and flats fiats too many allegros and andantes spoiled this love duet Mr thought and still thinks his wife Ire the most accomplished artIste that ever fingered a ke board lIe Ile adores her genius when displayed on the stage of a concert hall or in some fashionable drawing room But when it came to having a piano in almost every room of his home and when he would be awakened Tight right after night by the sound of his wife dashing off a bit of Chopin or Debussy or some other composer whose melodies had in invaded in- in invaded varied her that dreams dreams that Mr IS said to have thought a little too much of a good thing And Olga had grievances tery ery like those of her husband It was WIlS wa his genius as a conductor that first turned her heart toward him She thinks seeing and hearing him guido a symphony orchestra through a difficult musical score the most ot of pleasures But when It came to same house with a man who conducted imago imag ry ml symphonies for hours at n a time waving his baton with no musical accompaniment ac- ac accompaniment except what he hummed or that whistled whistled that is said to have been more than Mrs series nerves could coul endure any longer Friends of hers say that this continual waving baton waving distracted her so go that she was all unable to get I sufficient piano practice practice tice lice On the other hand Mr sir ski skis ski's friend friends declare that witha with a pia plan pi 1 Q rr But when it came to having havinga a piano in almost every room of his home and when he would be awakened S night night after night by the sound of his wife dash dash- Tf i ting ing offa off a bit of Chopin jt fi or Debussy or somer some v r other composer whose p i f melodies had invade invaded her that dreams dreams that Mr Is i said Baid to have thought a little too much ofa of a good thing thins Hi f 5 always as in action somewhere in the y house it was impossible for him to keep in the tho pink of condition fi for his work as conductor N Few if any other musical artists hate ha been taken up by fashionable society with the tho enthusiasm that has been shown shon for the y yIn In Philadelphia they have been particularly lionized and given entree entre to the most e homes Three or four years ago society was wa humming with w ith rumors of serious trouble between the skis It was as thought however ho that all their disagreements lid hd been happily settled when a daugh daugh- daughter daughter daughter ter was as born to them a year ago The following announcement made by Mr St lawyer laer before the conductor's conductor's conductor's tors tor's departure for Europe therefore came like a bombshell Before his departure for Europe Tuesday a w week eek cek ago Leopold conductor of the Philadelphia Orches Orches- Orchestra Orchestra tra signed in connection with his wire wife known to the musical world as liS Olga a separation agreement The agreement provides pro Ides the tho creation of or a deed decd of trust for the benefit of Mrs and arrangements whereby Sonia's maintenance is provided for the little daughter living with Mrs Mr for six months of each year and the remainder of the tho year will Ill resl reside e with Mr Mrs ki will continue to live in the home at St St Martins Martin's until she begins her concert tour Mrs was ns represented In the legal arrangements by Owen J Roberts and Mr ski by Thomas Raeburn White At the same time the folio following ing state state- statement statement ment meat was nas given out as coming from n a close friend of the S1 ko ski family This news is of course to be regret regret- regretted regretted regretted ted by all the flie he friends of both bolh parties But both Mr and Mrs are ara respected and beloved In this community community and this separation willIn will in no wise affect the professional work of ot either As artists each will go on with his and her work and maintain the posItion which they have hate won in their respective fields Some of the society friends tried to read between the lines of this announcement the possibility of ofa ofa ofa a reconciliation It was soon seen how how- however however ever that thereas there was as no ground for or any such uch hope A few fow days das a ago o just ju t ate alter i 1 I x r it I IQ Q o Sv l iSi L ry ti d S its 5 r t tr r ti t r rf f rs s v G ti s 44 1 N Nr M Anna who refused to undertake a love duet with Senor de Segurola a fellow grand opera star Mr ski had sailed again for Europe his wife brought suit for di- di divorce divorce di divorce vorce Sonia the baby daugh daughter ter has been made much of by Philadel Philadel- Philadelphia Philadelphia phia society The infant was showered with gifts among them expensive mm min miniature musical instruments represent represent- representIng representing representing ing an entire orchestra When went abroad just after the separation the child was left at the fashionable residence in Chestnut Hill with Mrs skI When he returned the child was still there but Mrs had gone taking her grand piano and all her musical library The were ere married in 1911 Doth Both had taken new names for professional professional professional purposes Mrs maiden name was She was born in San Antonio Tex and JI is sOld said to be related to the famous family of that name in Cincinnati Leopold name at birth was Anton Stanislaw He Ill was born in Lon Lon- London London don of Polish and Irish parents Ills Ills first or work in this country was as musi musi- musical musical musical cal director of the choir of S1 St Barthol Barthol- Bartholemew's Bartholomew's Churchin Church in New York Later he became conductor of the Cincinnati Or- Or Orchestra Orchestra Or Orchestra chestra presumably through the social influence of his wife wile There he gained c lr rr k r gyp 4 r t t X R jR j jr r a a ay y F Fw w w r k L 3 q Q r rL Mrs Mrs Mr Leopold the talented pianist known pro pro- pro pro- professionally professionally as Olga who is seeking a It divorce the fame that led to his selection as leader of the Philadelphia Orchestra As Olga Mrs has been noted in American and European musical circles longer than her husband She made her debut in 1905 with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Walter Damrosch Three years cais later went to Europe and was heard with the tho London Symphony Orchestra under both Cowan nd Co an an and with the Colonno Orchestra in Paris After her marriage to she retired from tho the concert stage for three years In the season of 1914 15 she returned to her musical career under her husbands husband's baton in in the Philadelphia Orchestra It was in m 1919 that the first sign of developed It was WIlS said by friends that there had been a n clash of tempera tempera- temperament temperament ment mont ending in hysterics on Mrs Sto- Sto Sto-kowski's Sto kowski's part and her temporary depart depart- departure departure ure from home The general behe belief Tong their friends now is that it was musically Impossible for the to remain together Both must practice constantly and N v k Vr Vrr i f It A 1 At r v 1 1 t i rY d i t l-t i a w s t ca caL 4 r f i ask t tc tJ L i c M 1 J t 0 Nth c S 'S rL- rL S 11 1 4 5 a s r rau au 5 s sM M d datt 1 rm e att t A S 4 t A Na tra si ed z ae v i ii iA a I i a A e NL A rec F g gya ya yaa a t II Mm Matzenauer the prima donna f whose singing helped lose her the love of ofa a hush band who couldn't sing neither wished to be disturbed by the tho theother other had asserted again and again that the piano was n a highly important Instrument but even so 10 he considered It only an Incident In the greater and more complex work of his orchestra To his wife the tho piano was as the soul of expression Her ta grand piano stood xi iii the spacIous musiC room and when hen ho was she was at home she was at this r flo A f et v vf x 1 L f DL L LI rl r b- b bS bt bb I S tY t k t f b York k 9 f t t It J r f Y 2 t x J i Mr Leopold s Leopold-s the brilliant conductor of the Philadel Philadelphia phia Orchestra t tEven or one of the others for or hours every day Even in m distant parts of the big house her conductor husband is said laid to have I found it difficult to concentrate on the I work ork of orchestration to which he be was as I constantly devoting himself Some observers profess to have seen the development in o of a spirit of independence always characteristic of hm him It is recalled how a few years after he was made leader of the Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia delphin Orchestra and while he was still In a n sense subject to the tho favor of his aristocratic public he gave the first pro pro- prof production production f 4 in Philadelphia of a work which is difficult ot of J j appreciation at first hearing Many of the musically sophisticated I people in the audience laughed derisively Whereat d stopped the plaYing stepped do down n in front of 01 the footlights t I and lectured ed the audience on its lack of manners He explained that any gr great at r orchestral production is dependent for its beauty on the sympathy of the au- au audience au audience Another friend of the family at- at attempts at attempts tempts to explain the situation as fol follows I lows All of their friends have known that the skis were not at peace They simply are not in harmony temperamentally That is not because they are artists it is something that most people whether artists or orI I not ought to be able to understand un- un understand un understand The thing is not that artists have tempera tempera- temperament I ment meat where others have not but that artists are no more free from temperament than any others has made no se- se secret secret se secret cret of his hatred of certain formalities In explaining once why he had refused to tomake tomake tomake make an engagement to speak at some function of public and musical tance Lance tance he hc said How do I 1 Ir know I am going to feel like talking t I do not know so why should I promise to go somewhere dress up and talk when I Ido Ido Ido do not know know whether I will want to do doso doso the time so 80 when was the first man to win winI I the annual prize of offered by Edward rdward Bok Bole the millionaire former j editor for the greatest service to Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia He announced at the theaward I I award Ilard was made that the sum would II be used for the education of his daugh daugh- daughter daughter I ter He hardly needed the prize prim money since his salary Is said to be a year ear and his bis contract with the Philadel Philadelphia n phia Orchestra runs until 1926 I attitude toward his musiC Is well summed up In this quotation f I from one of his discussions of it My work ork is my play It is an Anglo Anglo- Saxon Anglo I Saxon idea entirely to separate ones one's I work from rom one ones one's play plaT l I believe you should make your profession so vitally absorbing that there is no necessity sity for tor any interest apart part from rom it I It I 1 I t II I |