CHALIAPIN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 19

CHALIAPIN.

[ FAMOUS SINGER'S DIVOBCE. (BT CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION 1 — COPYBIGHT.) lATTSTBALIAN AND ) S.Z. AND SUN CABLE.) . MOSCOW, November 8. : Feodor Chaliapin. has Been granted a divorce. ["The hews is staggering," said Madame Chaliapin, when she learned ner husband was to petition for divorce. "The action' can only be described as an attempt on the part of someone else to secure by husband's fortune. When I married Chaliapin he was an' 'unknown singer. I earned more as a ballet dancer than he did as a singer. When Chaliapin first went to New York in 1921, I returned to Russia for. his sake and lived in seclusion. I have suffered for 22 years while, others have revelled in my husband's glory, but I have kept thissecret from my children. He has now mentioned alimony publicly,' when he • might quietly have continued his previous payments. Money cannot' pay for. my years of suffering. I have . sacrificed my whole > life for him." Feodor Chaliapin was recently deprived by the Soviet of his propertv, ms citizenship, and his title of "tho People's Singer" because of assistance he rendered to Russian refugees.]