Easter and William Asmus had only been married three months when a petty dispute over theater revealed deep betrayal.
On 5 November 1918, Easter attended a play, Where Poppies Bloom, a drama portraying German “intrigue” during the first world war. When Easter got home, she started to tell William all about it. William “flew into a rage and told me I was not to see any war shows; that he was a German and that I, as his wife, was accepting the bounty of a German.”
