Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — MASCAGNI ELOPES TO PARIS [ARTICLE]

MASCAGNI ELOPES TO PARIS

Famous Musical Composer, After Quarrel With Wife, Runs Off With Pretty Chorus Giri. Rome, July 12.—Musical and society circles experienced a shock when it became known that Pietro Mascagni, the famous composer, had eloped with Adeline Costenzl, a pretty chorus girl, and with her had boarded a train for Paris. But Rome was more shocked when they* heard of a violent quarrel between Mascagni and his wife, which preceded the elopement. The quarrel was so violent that Signora Mascagni used a knife on the composer of “Cavaliere” and other operas and cut him in the neck. The wound, however, did not deter him from leaving town with the chorus girl.