FOUR MONTHS' MATRIMONY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9581, 4 August 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOUR MONTHS' MATRIMONY.

: LILIAN RUSSELL'S MATCH. Miss Lilian Russell, " the well • known actress, has terminated her four months' honeymoon with Signor Perugini by separating for good. She sent word to a reporter who called at her residonce, 318, West 77th-streob, New York, that the separation was final and thab she would never again live with £erugini. While this was a great surprise to the public, and ' theatrical people generally, it created no sensation among the intimate friends of the couple, who have believed that almost from the time of their . marriage both had regretted that they had been united. Aboub two weeks before it was said, on what was considered the best of authority, thab there had been, a serious disagreement between Miss Russell and Perugini, and that Miss Russell had said she would nob sing with her husband next season. It was even said thab Mr. Courtice. Pounds, the English tenor, had gone to America practically under contract with Miss Russell. The announcement of Miss Russell's engagement to-Siffnor Perugini, made on January 10 last, caused quite as much surprise as willher separation. Eleven days after the engagement was announced the couple were married, in the presence of a, few guests, in the home of Justice of Peace Muller in Hoboken, making Miss Russell's third venture in matrimony. Her first husband was Harry Braham, a member of the family of orchestra leaders of that name, and her second, with whom she eloped from the United States to Europe, was Teddy Solomon, the composer of " Billeo Taylor, " The Nautch Girl," and other comic operas. Miss Russell has a daughter, as the - result of her union with Solomon, who is now nine.years Old,: -