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Show . -'P How the Violinist Searched for Ten Years to Find a Wora I J ' "Modesty first of all, then ij A a brains, sympathy and charac-' ; v i n i k ter; and' last of caaty' t Q k ' beauty of spirit more than $ V (jl t U body these were the ff V ' Q I ft qualifications on which I 1.1 W 1 X Mr. man insisted J V Q ) when he set about find- i 0 otf fie n'nf girl for , - j W" ft v ' i -; If rHE world has groni to expect that when a great artistic genius - falls in love it must be with im-pi im-pi !sive suddenness and the tempestuous tempestu-ous violence of a passionate whirlwind. i With these creatures of dynamic emo- tions love seems to take on even mora the aspect of an insane frenzy of tem- Iperamcntal feelings in which reason ana intelligence have no part whatever than it docs with, ordinary men and women. The spectacle of an artist's falling in love at lirst sight, marrying on second sec-ond and then parting from his y love mate when he has taken a third and more thoughful glance at her is too familiar an in- cident to attract more than p2--'f'i passing interest. The public Jr4 only yawns, murmurs "I told you so" and settles back to wait for the latest matri-monial matri-monial victim to be hit again tr&BSEm by Wo like a l.;t from the ,K blue. But the romance which will end in a few cays no v.- in t'no I marriage of Mischa Elman, TOB--the great violinist, to Misa v Mildred Stone is a tnkiiv exception to the accepted BHj rule that artists must be as temperamental in their love af- yS fairs as they are in their music I or their poetry or whatever kind of art it is that makes them famous. Mischa Elman's romance has been emphatically not temperamental. From the day years ago when he decided that some day he would marry until the blissful moment when Mildred Stone promised to be his wife his every move in the difficult game of love has been the result of the most painstaking and thoughtful deliberation. The wisdom of everything he did was carefully proved in advance by all the severest tests he could devise. In the first place, when as a young I man of eighteen he found his musical success already assured, he carefully weighed the advantages and the disadvantages dis-advantages of marriage. Having decided that matrimony was worth the risks involved in-volved he proceeded to reduce those risks to a minimum. He studied the unfortunate love affairs af-fairs of many of his fellow artists to discover if he could the reasons for their failure. In many cases he decided the disasters had been due to wives ill-suited ill-suited to an artistic genius. Then Mischa Elman proceeded to construct a hypothetical wife for himself him-self to make a mental picture of the sort of woman who would blend with his artistic temperament as harmoniously as the chords he nlavs on his violin. He 9 overlooked nothing he could think of 9 that would add to wifely perfection, and 3fl when his specifications were complete he iBi set out to search for tho woman who IB fitted them. :;''"goj That was ten years ago. As he flitted flH' about the earth fulfilling concert en- ,i; -SMi gagemcnts he was continually studying ,Hj with appraising eye every woman he I Jm met, searching for one who should ji&'wB measure up to his ideals. It was not P9H until last summer when he met Mildred . XdjM Stone at Lake Placid that he found ugBB the girl who will, he thinks, make him a perfect love mate. iSB But don't think for a minute that rajH this was the first time Mr. Elman had jPfO been in love. On many previous occa- yH sions he had thought for a time his I! The younf? woman who met all ' . Mischa Elman'3 specifications even to her fondness for dogs heart irretrievably lost, but in every ' ' , : . '; ,. " - "'' case he discovered on studying the ',;. y .y;-" ? '-:?. ",. '... woman in the case a little more that she was not the one for him. LM&i&Vs-h. i v , , ' ' "Not long after meeting Miss Stone," - ;-: 11 ' '" says Mischa Elman, "I was positive that ' . 'f .. love had found me for the first and last time. In fact, this was so much my first real romance that when I presented pre-sented my fiancee with the engagement ring I put it on the wrong finger." The elaborate precautions Mr. Elman El-man has taken to insure his avoiding ono of the matrimonial wrecks which have involved so many of his fellow artists are of extraordinary interest. If he has succeeded, as he fondly believes he has if he and Mildred Stone do he happily ever after in one long sweet symphony of bliss then the methods he followed in the choice of a wife are sure to be copied by untold thousands of other lovers. Mischa Elman is thirty years old. Since the dav when, at the aue of twelve, he startled a great audience in Berlin by his genius he has traveled far on the path of fame. He is considered consid-ered by all the critics one of the greatest great-est living violinists, and many pronounce pro-nounce him the greatest in the world. "I believe absolutely in marriage for the artist," says Mr. Elman in an interview inter-view given especially for this page. "I am going to marry because I have found in my fiancee the perfect complement of myself. I feel that until a man marries mar-ries he is unable to fulfill what he has set out to accomplish in life. "Marriage is the great stabilizer. As a bachelor a man lives a restless, wandering wan-dering and unhappy existence. My wife will be the means of making me produce pro-duce my greatest and best work. I feel Miss Mildred Stone in whom, after : ? 'lark brown, but if sue were a a search of ten years the violinist f blonde or a decided brunette it found just the beauties of soul, would not hu , r.r.. e :i- -ir'n mind and body, which he believes f diil'erence. will harmonize perfectly with his t - "Sit. i , ..n;, . t. ! . the .-man artistic temperament t j of ray cho.re Thai is ail. Sh. r v, ' .. ., . rv-ntle and unassuming. I feel that that when I am married nr. and 1 my life will be very happy because my work will become more com- V J sK has aU the characteristics of a plete, more rounded, and all the . natural home-loving: wife. She does questioning and dissatisfaction will V ' " j 1 ot rnoke; .she does not drink, she disappear. Peace is necessary to , ot care about jazz dancing, produce a man's best efforts, and I am d a: the same time she is perfectly supremely confident that my life will g ' iiorma! and modern in her attitude lose lo-se t tic down into a beautiful peace after ? jr ward life." marriage." 2. f Elman has been reported very Mr. Elman declares he lias never lT uften as preferring the blonde to the coon ,.r Irnhum a siirroRsfnl mnrrijf X - . brunette type of girl. It has also been between two artists. His fiancee is a devbtee of classical dancing, and has studie'd for some time under the instruction in-struction of Isadora Duncan. She also is a talented pianist. However, as the virtuoso feels it impossible for two persons to be happily married while each has a career, Miss Stone is giving up any idea of making any professional use of her talents. "Just what are the qualifications on which you have insisted in your long quest of your ideal?" Mr. Elman was asked. "First of all, that she be modest," he replied, "and modesty is a very rare and unusual possession among the women wom-en of to-day. Next in importance I placed brains intelligence. Then came Mischa Elman, who m0" believes he has insured his heart's happiness forever by his thoughful deliberation in selecting a love mate sympathy and character, and last of all beauty." "Beauty, to mo, is not a thing of pretty eyes, or hair, or coloring. It is the spirit and the character of a woman which make her beautiful I do not know I have never given a thought as to whether my fiancee would be considered con-sidered a beauty in the accepted sense of the word. I know that to me she is beautiful because she represents everything every-thing I want in a woman. "Her eyes are blue and her hair is stated that a woman would have, to be unusually beautiful in face and figuro to attract him. Also, she would have to be extraordinarily brilliant of mind. But none of these qualities, it now turns out, figured as essentials in tho Elman specifications for a wife. Miss Stone: the girl he has wooed and won after such careful deliberation and a world-wide study of womanhood, is no more striking in appearance or more brilliant than the average well educated young woman. In modesty, brains, sympathy, sym-pathy, character and beauty of spirit she is, however, all the violinist desires. Mischa Elman Is a home-loving citizen, citi-zen, and he expects to establish a residence resi-dence in New York as soon as he is married. When his art requires him to With All thl Qualities HI Thinks a Wife Should Have 1 fid 1 1 1 J Another view of the futuTCj Mischa Elman travel, as it has done in the pastj parts of the world he has no intl Of i-.- '' if- ;" n.r.d. She. be first of :'! ade and Wl company him whercer he goes, j "Taste- change in love as well aj th ng else," Mr. Elman says, "ifl a man desires at twenty he now wishes at twenty-five. A manjj through many different phases J in the course of his life. ..T-f i .. J l.,..,nf L-inii rie Knows ina auuioi.cu H he is young. This is very sincerj terrible- while it endures. As he.j oldei he will probably fall in lorj and over a-ain, and will learn tej at his previous arTairs of the hefl "At the sumo tnv there is olll real ldve in a man's life, and all 3 become insignificant and trivial! ho find-; the one woman in the M Mischa Elmar i.elic-. es that attj is infinitely better off if he maj ided that he does not TOM woman who is hersek' an artiJ there are many students of matin problems and tho peculiar twhjj take when they involve urtistic tej ments who think it a grave mistj any artist to marry. His best wol be done, they maintain, oniv remains single. The author of a recent novelj-one novelj-one of his character a:k a f rienj "Do y.u I ''.! i ii marriage artist?" ((J "No," is the friend's reply, 9 is a coffin t.. an artist. Areyai templating your own funeral?" If Mischa Elman s coming TOM rvr a fi.u : -.f o:iO per CJ happv as he confidently e.vpectsj be a crushing blow to theories Hf And if it does prove an ldejl match it will be a lessen to oOlfJ of artistic nui. ro bo less te mental in their romances and gOJ the choice of a v..fe . ' niorc ful, deliberate way. |