New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1919, Page 10

MARY GARDEN IOMES Ma Paris and Chicago now Garden of followed in York The usual formula was The New met her on the incom- Mary” receiving her news- paper reporters ing might say about cabbages or and they of Chicago met arrived there, ship to hear what “Our kings; profession in the same train which she the To all were apparent her newly ac- the on for same purpose. slenderness and her enduring quired youthfulness, for Miss Garden has re- turned to her former avoirdupois of 119 the legendary fountain of pounds, youth was frequently mentioned among her interviewers. Those who have become familiar with her during her plumpness sec several years of pulchritudinous her now in a sort of before-and-after metamorphos “I have tried both the svelte and the embonpoint,” she explained, “and ause 1 Eat have resumcd the former b How is it done? exercise. 1 appendicitis in Paris, but that had nothing to do with it. I weigh the same as I did before my illnes felt better in life. and never my didn’t leave it there; I still have it with me, and it is a perfect good a Bu 1 iking change no- ticed wa ess to s willir discus ngs a serious vein, for wont to quip and vith newspaper men. remarked, she replied always been serious. could work and study, and grand opera roles with We greatest crisis in perhaps that is learn so many out ' being serious? have been passing through the the world's history it,” she “I was in Paris in that darkest hour the sun began to dawn so gloriously at Chateau-Thierry. I tell ‘We had just before vou those were tense times. Here he is—the man whom Mary Garden has never met, but whom ehe loves, according to her own confession—William S. Hart, the “thrilling hero” of the “movie” screen everything packed and ready to hurry away for days at a time, for nobody doubted that we might have to leave Paris at any moment on short notice. “The > instant was when the first shell from that monster long- There was most trag range gun burst in Paris. som itively uncanny about it. ‘What myst g P ous engine of destruction the barbarians had discovered nobody could imagine. From that time until the Americans got into the struggle, the morale, at cnough to turn tide, the and military, was its Your splendid Yank: both civil lowest ebb. ar and what might had not is too vived just in time d if they thought of. have happen terrible to be Ameri- Frer the No, “Do t love is too weak a the United That is one of the cans now? that word. France gives to adoration. happy results of the war—if one may speak of such a possibility after such 1 tremendous tragedy. “The French have discovered Amer- ind have discov- I I'rance—the real France. 1t Americans the Americans Now hey know over there than overfed, Now something more the silly overrich vulgarians. fallacy that the French are frivolous and morally careless is exploded for all time, for 2,000,000 clear-visioned younsg Americans will return to tell of the noble, brave, h . unselfish French people who have held back the ivory- headed hordes until we could get ready to do our share “Other the Huns have Yes. chiefly, s to bate them good results? ght properly.” A Mary be Garden interview would out some ref- What the last hardiy compicte with erence to the woman's world. effect would the events of four years have in this regard? p. blue eycs sparkled, and she was again our effervescent Mar: “Well, it 1 al liberty ia theirs of old as she laughed set women free; ac from on T ut I t won and are winning something mora ballot, ppealed very strong. They are French call puis now am not a ranking feminis 1k that women have than the mere 1anical which has never ly to me. going to be what the If you want that put into the campus Bnglish, you might say that after this women, gen erally speaki re going to have a weighty say in what is to be done in the world. It is hard now to nalyze reconstruction but th problems, will work out; women will not be the losers, and the Uni taites! il on the threshold of its greatest era Reference to her own part jin woman’s war woik in France brought ready responst Dite fact Miss Garden las been decorated no the that by both the bl lcay, ernments for That is one of tl flatly to discuss. give any rei In love? he has man whom met William S, Hart, sweetheart “It is probabie that he does not undying admiration, but I have been smitten ever said. know of my since [ Al saw him in Paris ! the Parisians are wild about him. They think ‘At last the whole truth about be. B “« ry victory. " the fi ixteen.” * a3 8 benefits to arise from the war. s says that one of these * was decorated twice. * doing war work, but won’t talk about it. WiTH TIIE p¥ Public Ledger Co. it also serious. but we didn’t realize it. that darkest hour” before the gure she had when she was * * x * is liberated feminism. > x * % has a sweetheart whom she has never met. * * % says the French have discovered the real American. o * % says that our boys “over there” have discovered the true French. e e the wild West and the cowboys’ It ch wins is his obvious sincerits them, and he never overac Her own cxperience in the pictures naturally followed for discussion. “I hated the work before the movie camera at first, but after I got used to the new surroundings, the strange technique, T grew to like it very much I think there is a much greater artistic the most The depths of ar future for ciner than people thinls have not been sounded in this field, although we occasionally see subtleties the that only displayed reen indicate how much farther upon actors and directors go in human realism and psy pictury art form will may chological portrayal in moving I believe that some day this dignity opera, assume equal and importance along with drama and other histrionic mediums. That come. is a Jong way off, but it will “Mechanically, photographically, the READY FOR A STROLL science of motion pictures has already reached almost per *tion. Such won- derful leave little ment, it seems, but as an art, strictly long way to go. human, 7 be regis- effects as have been achieved or no room for improve- has a restrained, speaking, it That even intellectual, acting ma tered on the film has been demon- intelligent, strated by this same Mr. Hart and a few other real actors. The cinema CAPMEN LA TOSCA i3 very young. and !tke many es it has suffered greatly from eventually settle down on a better basis, become indust commercialism. 1t will a serious artistic undertaking and take its place among the arts as well as the s “My They are “iences. Impossible. different nd each scems to be the best while lam in it. Thais, Carmen, Monna Vanna, Mel- isandc all different, so varied that each one is a favorite in its own turn “From one standpoint I enjoy Melisande the most. She is so com- plex, so far from obvious. It requires s0 much care, such mental effort to project her into the minds of the audi- ence, that the very difliculties of the role male her most interesting to me. “I was much interested in the production of Henri Fevrier's ‘Gis- monde’ for the first time in America and first in the world. I have studied her for months, communed with her in Paris and journeyed With her favorite role? all identities, are PHOTOS 8Y MATZENE. AND INTERNATIONAL. 1A SECPET e JUGGLER OF NOTRE DAME across the Al e intery : a found hier most great drama, as you already know, and Fevrier has composed an equally great score for it. I have studied 1t with and will, I am as the same Composc * Commonplace me, and him am infatuated with it. It sure, be t & success Monna Van- never have most this na interested uncommon. “What new desire to portray? great climax if I a conductor to one is character do I most Ah, that will be the can ever induce rearrange and an produce ‘Faust,’ with as a mezzo soprano impresario to Mephistopheles role for my milieu.’ Then the intcrview was ov “One moment!” This from a young lady socicty reporter, who stood with notebook Wwriting down the details of Mary’s attire. Her dress was of soft black duvetyn, made with a very nar- row underskirt and a broader tunic Jjust above, each of which had a bordure The slightly vest of broad brack silk braid. surpliced waist had a of geor- gette and was caught Black white while chamois by a huge yel- patent spats low diamond. pumps and Mary’s feet mousquetaire pearl earrings in her ears. flat tricorne of black s to her shining head with two emerald and diamond pins, and over these a black lace veil was tied primly. Be known neatness is a keynote of Miss Garden's personality. “Oh, yes, and the cane? That was given to me by a brave French soldier,” said M Garden. It was a new Mary in spite of the old. Somehow that darkest hour just before the sun dawned so gloriously leather on a la her hands and Her small s pinned were gloves were on tin v OF YOUTH . i SALOME at Chateau-Thierry had left its stamp —a vague, wistful mark that never through the whole interview translated itself into words but rather, for all her spontaneity, lack of words. that Mary Garden, who might have given others have done the story of her woman's into One went away remembering out to the world o many part in helping to win the great war, did not do so. There are the medals —the Serbi and the French—that rather tell their own stories, but Mary Garden prefers to keep the great hu. man things that went into the win- ning of them locked tight within her breast. A it later person cannot help won- dering the with great Mary will sing her memories! Back to Abraham’s Old Home Town HE British, on thelr recent advance in Mesopotamia, passed over or at least near the ancient city of Ur—a most interesting town, to be much as it was there that Abra- m was born and grew up; and thence that he departed with his fam- ily and relations on a Jjourney to Palestine that was destined to be so productive of important events for the Hebrew We are accustomed to think of the days of the early Pharaohs as almost lost in antiquity, but Ur was pre- historic. Bight or nine thousand years ago that great Chaldean city was a seaport on the shore (or near it) of the Persian Gulf. It traded with In. dia and all the then known parts of the world. Today Ur (or what remains of it) is 120 miles as the crow flies from the head of the Persian Gulf. Surely, it has not moved; but the alluvial de- posits, carried down by rivers, have built out the land, so that the head of the gulf is no longer where it used to be. The pushing southward of the shore-line is known to have averaged about a certain distance yearly since the time of Alexander the Great, so that the period when Ur was a sea- port can be reckoned with fair ac- curacy. Ur today is about half-way between the head of the gulf and the ruins of ancient Babylon. It is near the Eu- phrates—across the river from the modern town of Nazarieh—and is rep- resented by a vast group of mounds al remains of extraordinary interest. Undoubtedly it was war that destroyed this ancient metropolis—as troy everything that is sure, that conc it seems to de worth while, sooner or later. Out of one huge mound has been dug the ruins of a pyramidal tower which is regarded by Assyriologists as the most perfect specimen of Baby- lonian architecture k It is built in a series of stages the Tower of Babel, with a continuous flight of running up the outside. supported a temple—the own like broad steps It originally great Temple of the Moon. The ancient Assyrians worshiped the moou, which to them was an all- important divinity. The tower, indeed, was hardly more than an immense altar, and the adoration of Sin, the lunar deity, was so profound that his name survives in inai, the “Moun- tain of the Moon-god,” in Palestine, Ur, in prehistoric and even in early historic times, was the political and veligious capital of the Babylonian Empire. Its ruins stand today in the midst of a treeless plain.