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Show IUOKMAIL CHARiB il MATZENAUER BUST-UP MOTHER SAYS THREATS WERE SENHOSONj Letters Fell Into Hands of! I Opera Singer and Trouble I Follows BLAMES WOMAN, 52; Parent of Diva's Husband Defends Stand of Soprano MONTEREY, Cal.. March 18 Mrs. Kate CMot.ia. h 1 low land said today ( that the marital difficulties of her' I son. Floyd Glotzbach and his wife t Madame Margaret Mazenauer. opera singer, arose out of the "blackmailing i attempts ot" a Carmel, California, , woman." j "She Is a woman about 52 years old," Mrs. Howland said, "who sent in son threatening letters while he was in the east, causing him to rush i west to bush up these Imaginary troubles. t OMTM KI TO Kl I 1 "When Floyd came to Monterey in this matter, the woman continued to write him in the east with her threatening threat-ening letters and some of these fell j l into the hands of Madame Matze- I , nauer. I received appeals from her I , to bring her husband back to her and I 'l have used every effort to bring I about that result, but my boy ap-I ap-I pears to be surrounded by influences ! that keep him from me and hi.n wife as well. He appears to be In great fear of this woman "i went to New York to meet Matzenauer and saw her there the latter part of February We went over the whole situation and she I agreed to take Floyd back and forget and forgive everything even offering to do anything In her power to get rid of this other woman. Kl SHED TO CALIFORNIA ' 1 then rushed back to California in an endeavor to bring my boy to his senses and get him out ol the power oT this other woman. Unfortunately he has sought to avoid me ever since and it was only by strategy that 1 managed oven to have a brief talk with him. but he has been so worked upon that I have been unable to show him fhe error of his ways. Madame Matzenauer has acted splendidly throughout and 1 In no way blame her for taking the final stand that she has after my son has been led to say the foolish things that the papers credit him with." ST. LOTIS. Mo.. March 18. Mme. Mar gars is Matzenauer, grand opera singer here on a concert tour today, confirmed tho statement made at Monterey. Mon-terey. Cal.", by Mrs. Kate Olotsbach Howland. mother of Floyd Flotzbach. husband of the opera stur. that her mother-in law blamed the activities of a Carmel, Cal.. woman for her son's marital troubles. ' Mine. Matzenauer admitted that she had mot her mother-in-law at New York the latter part of February, and Ithat at a conference with Mrs How-land, How-land, she had agreed to forgive and forget her husband on |