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Sheriff Bob went back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram...
...Metre Run. Won by Lina Radke of Germany, 2 min, 16 4/5 sec., world's record...
Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice...
Divorced. Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, from Lucien Muratore, 49, opera singer; in Paris. She charged desertion...
Sued for Divorce. Lucien Muratore, 49, onetime actor with Réjane and Bernhardt, more recently famed as tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera Association; by Lina Cavalieri Chanler Muratore, 53, opera singer, in Paris. In 1912 she divorced Robert Winthrop Chanler, grandson of John Jacob Astor; he was supposed to have given her a large part of his fortune, which brought from his brother, John Armstrong Chanler, who had changed his name to Chaloner due to a difference with his family over his sanity, a now famed telegram: "Who's looney now?" In 1914 she married Lucien Muratore...