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prediction of"Glertous Passing" Failed
te Matertaltze, but Bad Luck Fel-
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X Peace Terms
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IfPHE little man of fuss and fury is at it again!
r Haartbreakcr without peer, he takes the count for another little love
' nged)'.
Once en a time, young and debonair, he wrecked the heart and life of
1'iie of the world's greatest tragediennes.
! Later a famous Russian dancer worshipped him at a Jove altar she is
Lm in have built in her luxurious boudoir.
r Six years age, with the amazing Are of his oratory, this maker of
levels, poems and plays of the erotic, led, his country te war and victory,
ind held a principality against 'the entire world.
Today Gabricle d'Annunzie, fifty-eight years old, bald-headed, one ene
tyed, lies en his couch at Gardene Riviera, Italy, with a fractured skull
and a bruised leg. -
It is rumored that his young wife, who left her parents and a musical
career te live with him during his stormy dictatorship at Fiume and who
married him after he performed a King Henry VIII with the divorce laws
;ef that State, pitched him out of the second-story window.
The rumor may be a false one.
Humors run te that sort of thing.
But any rumor is interesting when
ft'iencerns a man whose only answer
te a reproach that he makes tee free
'with the conventions of the world is
A sturdy "I am D'Annunzie!"
1 As inevitably as with war, there
will be D'Annunzie and rumors of
D'Annunzie. This strange man is
fashioned that way. He believes he
is immortal. He is new bald-headed,
Who once was redheaded. Up in the
Apennines, near the source of the
Pescara River, he has already built
i monumental tomb for himself. Net
faany years age his pet was a sala
mander. Fer three years he loved
the salamander, and when it died he
lied tears and placed it in a vault
in his mantelpiece with the golden
device. "Beatae 'Salarnandrae sa
crum." Once his favorite pet was
a goldfish, which he called Len-Pe-LrTc),
and of which he declared "it
possesses two qualities most rare in
lifep-it is clean and silent."
At Varcggie, it is said, he used te
ride into the sea naked en a great
white horse, Fiametta, and when he
came out n beautiful woman met him
and robed him in a purple mantle.
"The only creatures for whom I
have eternal affection are net
women, but dogs," he has been heard
te remark.
Pqetic Personality
Thrives Upen Rumqrs
Is there any wonder there are ru
bers about a man be .colorful aa he?
Certainly net. And if his dramatic
ttrsenallty is any indication of the
fcin who Uvea underneath D'Annun D'Annun
He'i . deadly pallor, underneath hit
rp'arss satanlc whiskers, then he wel
comes rumors; he thrives en them.
IeuUa Baccara, a twenty-year-old
pnlit, abandoned her home and
parents te live with the poet-warrior
ifn he lorke-1 himself hi Fium In
W10 when he defied the treaty at Ver
Mites nml the whnle world. D'Annun
! had been unable te Ret a divorce
fc? the wife of his youth. Hut when
k controlled the situation in Fiume he
took advantage of the opportunity te
ate a few mere lenient previsions, it It
ported, te the Flumlan divorce laws,
N get his divorce. Then, it was an
Winced, he had niarrlcd Leulta. On
tust 13 he fell out of the window
t the heme te which the couple had r
"d. On August 17 the Naples Mat
"no. a dally newssheet hostile te the
W. Informed Its readers that' in a fit
'anger, during a quarrel, Louisa
i Pushed him headlong out of the
tladew.
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Ice of Siberia for G0.000 years, , was
served, lle'had his own privnte labor
atory, 'where he distilled rare perfumes.
It was In Italy during this period of
his life that he met glorious La Duse
Eleanors, JDuse, Italy's greatest trage
dienne, and perhaps 'the world's. She
was six years elder than D'Annunzie,
but she fell, deeply in ieve with him
,Hcr life had nel been an easy ene,
her-read te success -was beset with
trials and temptations. Married, when
very young, she had a daughter, but
was, separated from her husband.
Thl neble woman with the tragic
race ueveteu ncrseir te the -younger
and -jauntier D'Annunzie." He called
her "the lady of the beautiful hands."
He was Inspired by her, in 1804, te
write his best novel, "The Triumph of
Death." In order te push his career
further she refused te play In any,
dramas save these written by the poet-'
lever.
Behind the life of the strangely beau
tiful Duse, one feels always the inti
mation of disaster. Because the would
act only In D'AmiunzIe's ploys, he'r
audtences fell off. .Audiences which
used te pack theatres te see her di
minished te deplorable numbers. It is
said that en her tour te America in
the nineties she played ene night before
an audience' that contained net one
tlckat-pald-fbr spectator. And the
cause of It all lay net In any Inability
te act, but In the sort of plays the
poet wrote for her.
Wrete Several Dramas
for Great Tragedienne
He had written "The Glocenda" te
Duse's slim white hands. He had writ-
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sweetness toward women became mani
fest. He weed the elderly Duchesse of
Galeae. At twenty, or thereabouts, he
appeared ready te n.arry her, and then
suddenly, with an abruptness which
seemed of Itself a peculiar mark of ge
nius, he eloped with the Ducheese's
daughter, Maria, and married her. But
Maria did net held him long. The
Church prevented divorce, and D'An D'An
nunzeo la said te have launched imme
diately upon his private leve beat, des
tined for many and uncertain seas.
All this while he was writing tremen
dous things. He had a command of
words that brought new life te Italian
literature. He hurled words about as
Ther hurled thunderbolts, smd his read
ers gasped In amazement and applause,
succumbing utterly te his genius.
His affairs of the heart ceurited up
like the sands of the everlasting aea.
He wooed ballet dancers, poetesses and
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d'Angulssela, once one of Naple s great
ladlea. 'NVife of n rich man. alie had a
lovely seu and daughter and a palatini
home. She abandoned all for this
weirdly fascinating little man, who
dominated all the nine muses and sang
te a tenth called Energy. She lived
with him for a time In Florence and
then be tired of her.
Today she is lonely and old. Her
beautt Is quite gene. The only lmppl
nets left te her are her immemorial
dreams and a pnlnce inagnnnimeusly
given, her by her desertcd husband.
Though a poet nnd n novelist of ex
traordinary powers, D'Annunzie mnde
scarcely enough money te supply his
needs. Hd lived lav shly. He dwelt
llke a prlnce of old, whehe purple burn
ing bleed he believe; flews deep In his
vein. He, purchased the Villa Capon Capen
tin end many, valuable horses and
dots. la said that his extravagance
Inspired him te give a banquet at which
iitat ef a MttaftM, yreanrai in the
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ten "Frnncesca da Blmlni," In which
the trogedlcnne scored wonderfully. But
then he dovelepcd the conviction that all
great things must be monotonous, as
the sea Is monotonous and the moun
tains. And ha wrote his plays Inspired
by that conviction. And his plays failed
te attract the public.
But Duse's leve for him and loyalty
held her te ber determination. She
would only play his pieces. And then
he gradually tired of her. She was
forty-two years old, and he beenme
meru than nver conscious of her age.
He even told her no, It Is snld. And
sndncsH Riinwcd nt her henrr; thorn
were moments when, turreunded by gny
company, the het, scalding tears
streamed down her lovely checks, And
one day, D'Annunzie hinted te her that
sha was net the Ideal type for his
newest play, which he was just complet
ing. This tore her heart.
But apparently ber peer life was net
nnnarentlr nat
i of herself and
the blue paradise of their love Duse
had made many confidences te the poet.
She had told him most intimate details
of. her early life, meant only for a
lever's ears, te be kept sacred within
the heart.
And D'Annunzie published "II
Fuoco," which might be translated
"Flre" or "The Flame." It revealed
all these secrets of Ln Duse's youth,
it revealed her leve for the poet, and
it revealed his increasing coldness. Twe
main characters in the book, a poet and
a great actress, were
terned nftnr the lives
D'Annunzie
The humiliation of this revelation
broke her heart.
"lie lias sold the secrets et our
love !" she cried. "He has put our pas pas
sieh in his book ! I shall kill him.'
But she didn't. Perhaps liar love for
him was tee lefty. Perhaps her enthu
siasm was entirely snuffed out by this
last bitterness of her own life, se that
she hadn't even enough interest left te
try te kill him. D Annunzle apolo
gized, said that the book was intended
te dlficleBa no secrets of their liv
that It was entirely fiction.
Duse. It Is believed, never survived
this crisis, She fell desperately 111.
Her acting became listless, her Inspira
tion seemed te be gene. She bud be
come the symbol of his decadent's dic
tum, "Be beautiful, but be sad." Hhe
la still alive, at the age of slxty-lhree.
She retired from the stage shortly after
her break with tbe poet, and save for
an uninspired revival once or twice, has
never returned.
With n charm of character that Is
poetry Itself, this mnKnltlcent woman
of grief and disillusionment, forguve her
lever. Though stunned irrevocably by
the blew, she has been moved te say :
"We must bow before the poet even
when It Bccms te us he docs wrong. He
is a peet: he has seen something; he
has seen It in that way. One must ac
cept his vision because it is a vision."
Duse Nurses Old Lever
Struck by Flying Shell
In 1018, when the poet, then a colo
nel In Italian aviation, was wounded
by a piece of flying shell, losing his
right eye, Ln Duse rushed te his slde
nnd nursed him until he was well
enough te return te the front. And It
bespeaks the Inexpressible fascination of
the man, that he can held the affection
of women m and of men tee.
Like the character she vrcutcd In
"The Olocendn," who crushes her
beautiful handn for the sake of her
lever, La Duse crushed her very llfe.
And 'then D'Annunzie, the electric,
turned te. another, and another. In
the meantime, he get himself up te hla
wretched enough. During the days tttxu la debt, His'pjays feu, his ex"
penscs burled him under, he sold hits
Splendid Villa, anil finnllv hnrl in (lin Ills
creditors in Italy. He went te Fraucc,
an exiie.
Matters went wrong wJth him there.
This poet, whose best loved colors were
"the red nt llmul ntwl ill., vnllnu- nf
geld," could nt this tlme. make llttl'
geld. Ills thoughts turned te blend. He
consulted a hcercba. who told him thai
within two yeurs he would he stabbed
by a woman. Nothing daunted, the
poet, with his sense for the dramatic,
mnde his famous prontinclamcnte :
I shnl live two mere eers, then I
shall perish. I hIihII die ln a way that
will make the whole world wonder. I
shall be D'Annunxe the superb. Tn the
full strength of my mind and body up
iu uiin mat instant of mv earthly ex
istence, I shall change into n sweet
vapor and mlngle with the whole uni
verse. I shall be velntillznl Inte in in
flnlte molecules without leaving n trace
of myself behind. I slinll never ret in
a common grave."
Determined In that manner, he built
his tmnb In the Anpenlnes, Hut the
poet did net dle within two venrt.
Instead, he met Ida IlubenMcln. a
former member of the Imperial KusMnn
ballet nt St. Petersburg. In 1000. In
Ilussln, this darkly beautiful RusMan
married Victer Gorewltz, a millionaire.
Fer a tlme she web content, but when
Gorewltz demanded that she glve up
her career, she decamped and went u
Paris alene. D'Annunzie met ber for
the first time, when she played a Chris-
tlnn martyr in a tableau vlvant. The j
poet of temperament nnd infinite vn- I
rlety fell in love with her. As she
was net then renowned, he determined
te malte her w. He wrote a play about
her she wen te shine as a martyr.
He wrote "Tlie Martyrdom of St. Se
bastian," Ida Kubensteln te portray the
role of St. Sebubtlan.
It was Idu's opportunity. She Fnw
that. But she went further, she fell
ln leve with the author, as the author
had already with her. It Is reported
that she erected a leve Mirlne In her
boudoir, nt which she made dally offer
ings of love te Cnbrlele. They were
mad about each ether. The play Itself
was put under a papal ban. Interdicted
by the Archbishop of Paris. It was u
role te bring out the muiI, uld Ida.
Paris, Recalling Duse,
Unfriendly te D'Annunzie
Paris, nt the time, remembering Duse,
wns unfriendly te D'Annunzie. It
whispered that seen enough Ida Ku
bensteln would be thoroughly fed up
with the poet's exactions, his tyrnnnle
But Ida fooled and delighted the Pa
risians. And D'Annunzie. ln spite of
his grnnde patnlen, was jilted. Ida met
Geerge Baklanoff, the Mission bari
tone, nnd an old leve for him revived.
some pertens said. Others denied this,
and declared sue gnu- up the poet for
Lee Biikst, who did settings for the St.
Sebastian play.
Anyway, d Annunzle was abandoned
and Paris chortled.
Miss Itubenstcln is reported te hnm
explained her position after this fash-
ten:
'We Russians nre nt one. nnd the
same time the most sensual and the
meat spiritual of people. W riot In
sense pleasures, dress und feasting and
love, and we wallow In soul depths
after the things of sense have grown
tame.
"I care no longer for the things of
the sense, nnd long only for the eternal
things of the spirit. I would retire te
some remote convent and think only of
the soul. I have expressed nil this te
d'Annunzie, and he, tee, is new feci
lng the call of the tplrlt. I have taught
him these thing.. I hne preached te
him nnd he feels tiie Influence, und
Saint Sebastian is doing its work for
him ns well as for me."
Se, jeu see n poet defeated by his
own play, and soul gnvu llesli the up
percut for ten full counts.
Kven then d'Annunzie was scnreely
satisfied. Purls laughed again in 1014
at another of his escapades. At a
gorgeous innsqued ball one night he
spied a beautiful masked woman In n
Venetian costume. Somebody told him
she was a real princess, nnd the poet
pursued her. Se much that the princess
wus heard te remark that "that horrid
little Italian" annoyed her. D'An D'An
nunzeo wus astounded and disgusted in
the end te learn that his princess was
none ether than an humble, popular
music hall bter.
Thlugs went from bnd te worse for
him mentally and physically. His life
was created for thrills, for wnsatlens.
And eue day he announced that If life
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In nny ordinary wny, but lit n way the
world would marvel at.
But Ufa did offer him another thrill.
The War broke out. Cermnnu tnm n.....u.
Belgium. Knglund and France tried te
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at their attitude. He saw the possi
bility of getting back at Italy's ancient
enemy, Aurtrla. The leve he se easily
gave te women concentrated ln an
almost greater love for his country.
And the inspiration save wings te
his words, nnd tire te his conviction.
He made speeches everywhere, advo
cating immediate war. Over the heads
of the Government he pictured te hla
countrymen what 6cemed te hira te be
their only duty. And in May, 1015,
he delivered his blazing speech te the
students of the University of Genea la
front of the stntue of Garibaldi. D'An D'An
nunzeo was hailed ns the second Gari
baldi. Maddened students bore him en
their shoulders nnd paraded blm about
the streets.
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he ltnlinn people Internrd there. He
uas wounded a number of times Air.
trm set a price of $4000 upon b"; head
be Intended te devote himself t0 lha
?"incs? of Jeaw again-whfch doubt!
Inf. T15!1"? H.P we'a be once , mew
hive-but he heard that the treaty,
makers were net going te clveltalr
Flume, which he believed ought te come
war Uh ",hrJ; M !eitin.ate speluTf
war. ylth theusnm s of fe lowers who
loved him ns perhaps no ether lPmler
and hi' r;d' h, matcM " n Fluml
2? i ZS1 th" co""fl"s reprcaeutfd
at Paris. He even declared war "n Ms
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VersSfllei0 "il:idbj' 'he deeialeua at
Versailles, in the end he wes ner-
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ifli0 Turr? LeulM- he had com
te lighten tbe burdens of military gor ger gor
ernment at Fiume. And. according te
reperU. he was able te secure his di
vorce from Maria bride, of his youth,
SFarch'ldS" fBlr pUn't '
But'enly the ether day she It mM
te have thrown him out of the window!
Hint may he true or h may net -as
many reported Incidents In thla spit
fire s llfe may or may net be. Felks
bavn even gene se for as te say he i
Mark, staring med. Perhaps he Is, we
nre all morn or lens mad, many phil
osophers have told us. ' '
All of us, however, de net have that
ntrigulng madness which forces us te
live dangerously. And that's the sort
this prancing Italian midget has thi
sort that even the safest and sanest of
us human cr ters furtively admire.
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poet. It Is his explanation and his ex
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