WAGNER

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 109, 9 May 1914, Page 5

WAGNER

AND HIS CHILDREN THE BAYREUTH SUIT COURT'S RULING. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, (Received May 9, 9.15 a.m.) BERLIN, Bth May. At Bayreuth, in the suit of Fran Isolde Beidler, wife of Herr Beidler, conductor of the Court Opera at Munich, against her mother, Frau Cosima Wagner, widow of the great composer, to claim the right to describe herself "Nob Wagner," the Court ruled that plaintiff must prove that marital relations existed between her mother and Wagner twelve months before her (plaintiff's) birth. [Frau Wagner and her son Siegfried contended that F*an Beidler was a daughter of Cosima's first v husband, Hans Voh Buelow, and not a daughter of Wagner. The suit was based on a statement that, while Cosima's five children, were all born during th© first mar* riage, which was finally dissolved in 1870, Cosima lived with Wagner as his wife as early as 1864, «md that he, and not Buelow, was the father of the chil« dren. Isolde was born in 1865, and she and the two youngost children. Siegfried and Eva, the latter the wife of Mr. Houston Stexvart Chamberlain, were" recognised until 1912 As Wagner's legitimatised children.]