“TOO FUNNY.”

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3512, 1 May 1912, Page 7

“TOO FUNNY.”

MME. MAETERLSNGK ON NEW YORK. CONFIDES TO PARIS REPORTERS Georgette Leblanc Maeterlinck returned to Paris with a broad smile, but without her husband. The- famous poet did not even meet her at Havre. It was ' not his objection to interviewers that kept him from meet? ing his wife. She was quite willing to monopolise all the interviewing while Maeterlinck remained in his villa on the Riviera, which he has hardly quitted since his wife left it-

Maeterlinck never had any intention of going to America, and there was never any wager that he could escape interviewers. There was no foundation for the wild stories about him, except the desire of Mme. Maeterlinck to bo well advertised.

“Oh, what an amazing incident we saw when I first landed in New York!” she laughed, as she told the French reporters all about her trip. “Our cabins were invaded by reporters who wore trying to find my husband. They even pulled the whiskers of innocent passengers, fearing that Maurice would get by thorn in disguise. Oil, it was really too funny!”

Georgette Leblanc has nothing to say about who started the original story. She prefers instead to pass over the incident in her new found enthusiasm for America, which she expects to revisit next- year. “I can’t begin to toll you how much I love America,” she asserted. “Of course, after my own country,”, she added, for the benefit of the French reporters; “there is only one Paris and one France.” Mme. Maeterlinck anounces that when she returns to' America next year it will be for some important Franco-Amorican affair, the nature of which she wishes to: keep shrouded in mystery. 3Vlien arrived in Paris she wore her coat of tige’s skin, but she neglected to wear the jewel in the centre of. her forehead with which she first appeared before the reporters in New York-