The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 17

‘Half a Loaf Page Mary Garden Says Answer Lies in Her Tact and Diplomacy. Expects to Prove Theories By Making Chicago Company a Success. ia 5 By Marguerite Mooers | Marshall, the Pr even : EARLS as big as robins' h caught in her ears with | mond clasps; pearls as big as pens about her neck; a diamond bracelet and four of jade; a ring with an emerald at least half an inch square; other rings, of which T didn't Keep count; her supple, beautifully , moulded figure encased in a tailored “pusiness" suit, its color repeating the tawny note of her hair; pressed closely down, almost to her brilliant eyes, a turban which was a mere re- flection of their bine; rounded chin | hollowed into white hand, while the eyes bored into mine—so the scene Was set when I talked with General Direster Mary Garden, of the Chicago Opers Company bout why a woman May be more competent than a man WP to rule grand opera. fh The interview was to be at Miss Garden's apartment, but & quick call | for rehearsal transferred it to a dressing room at the Manhattan } Opera House, a roam in front of | which ballet girls in tights and fur coats and a procession of nondescript males passed constantly, a room out of which gesticulating, tempest tossed soul from the south of Europ a blew himself I was ushered into’ the General Director's presence. Being two calm and more or less } simple An: axons, we smiled, shook hands and settled ourselves 4 face-to-face on opposite sides of a \ small, plain wooden table, without ? even an ink-well or a paperweight i between us. Then { asked Miss , "| Garden to lay tr cards on the table the while I noted that, with her smart costume, the vanva y ( jewels cnly a woman of her dyn. i iadividuality can wear without being ny extinguished, the undimmed blue of ) her eyes and the smoothness of her skin, she ne nuked better in her y ite. “Tell me some of the r I paid, “why a woman such your- self can do betier th 1 ay the | ne head of an opera o1 tion,! (If to some pale ¢ of humil- ity the followings conversation seems pged with egotism, | take the blame—I put Mary up to it Bhe answered first in one w “Diplomacy!” There was 4 long blue glance and a / omer lence for emphasis, ‘Then @ rush of speoc “Women for ages have been trained in the use of diplomacy, of tact, of the | yelvet glove that hides the jron hand. In society, in love, in managing their children, women heve learned to be diplomaty—to rule and yet not to hur ‘That is what’ you must do in an or- ganization 4 Which has been growing ten 3 without fixed aut inywhere, To como f in here b thority, to ace cept a little 1 thon fet it go ] to the head—thyt would be to. lose } one’s head completely and to ruin all of usefulness, Aiso it would cruel, “These singers are most of them from the Latin peoples, which means that they «ae extremely sensitive. A s kindness Is what they nee ‘They know that 1 am truly Interested in thom, that I will listen to the story of all thetr Httle troubles and hurts that I will be kind. What does it cost { mé? A few hours of time every day, a little sympathy, a graciousness—in short, nothing I cannot well give. And under all this T can do that whieh needs to be done—I can build up DU CIPLINE!” Miss Ganlen's warm, rich tones capitalized the word.” “And—we— fi must—have—dliseipline,” she added, i & pause between each word, { x GOING DOWN! . Conpright, 1071. by the Praw Puttinting Oo. Nee York Ryoorng World) BAR DISCOURAC Time DONE: are hard for those who want things soft, 1 | talk about myself because T | know what T am talking about | T have DOUBLED my the last few how I did it; hour every before day! hour, When a good thought A me, without effort, I UPON IT AT ONCE. My has been | because in many cuses got an ide about a man's busi- ness I worked for him without , pay and made myself so valuable \ he was ylad to hire me ALL THINGS AR Get them. Sincerely, ALVALEA SMITH. income in weeks and this is I lay in bed ONE morning, sometimes cht, but always ONE came to ACTED income doubled where I YOURS! BEATS BEING A LOAFER—Watch This for This Laugh-Getting Humorous Article by Neal R. O'Hai Why Woman Is More Competent Than Man to Rule Grand Opera “Then, don't you think “that a wom opera will jury, le the ‘inf M I sugested, nat the head of grand be like a woman on ss accessible than a man t uence of emotion? I can’t, rden, imagine that any one will ‘put anything over’ on you!* No." she laeghed, the blue eyes snapping a challenge. “Nobody will put anything over on me. No mem- ber of my company need fear that some other member may gain an un- fuir advantage through making a Dieasing personal impression on me. As & woman, I shall practice justic: instead of lettir me in favor others, “I can do something which men veem to find difficult, yet is absolutely essential in th an or y ny my emotions sw! me und against of ) many which head of mization such as this, i can temperament and my com- Mon sense in watertight compart- ments, Temperament may be a great help to one’s notes, b: it” never should be applied to figures. When | am directing an affair 1 do not 1 if-control or my head that © g ad""—Mary’s two fingers, tapped the close-atfmeg blue which a woman must have if succeed in any important Just brains, A mun needs of course, and the man 4 leader has them, But this woman with brains may the advantage of him: she also 1)SKESS etism. — Many Is are UI we } it our cradles, found rarely among sof other sex. “It Is because I have my publio— and magnetism has helped me to hay public—that 1 believe 1 ¢ Buc in directing grand opera. Here and there, litle by little, 1 have won my people, 1 would like to se grand opera democratized. Why Id it be any longer the fad, div n, of little group of the social eleot? Why, in this great ountry which has been trained mu sically for years by ts, sym- with And it the mempb in but the conee phony organizations, musiclins of every sort, should not opera taken as simply, with us much enjoyment, as other forms of art? [ have been delighted, here in New York, to no- Uce how well filled is the upper part of our house, That is us it should be. “Ef opera Will go to the people, opera will pay. And [ honestly be- eve that i ody in the United States can it pa T am_ the woman!" declared Scotch Mary Gar- den. t's such an opportunity!” she on, candid enthusiasm « challenge to all one's courage, ne loyalty. And the wo: agree me enormously, 1 was saying other day that ever so many of the little brain egils in my head” again the white fingers tapped th crown of the Garden hat have come alive, stopped being sluggish, since I became director, “Of course, I nover concentrated 80 intensely before on anything, al- though my work always has been the most Important thing In my life, Now for the next six weeks I shall travel from my hotel to the opera house here, from the opera house to my ho- tel, overseeing, consulting, listening to what the others have to say—that will be most important—attending to the thousxind and one details that make these great performances run sinoothly, singing, ‘There will be time for nothing else, but then I care nothing else. And I suppose th: another advantage which I have over men,” amiled “Our Mary.” “They seem rather unwilling, no matter what thelr work, to get along with- out thelr little diversions, “There are only two sorta ot wonen,” 6 finished, tersely, “the do-nothings and the woman’ with power, subjective might. Why vhould not that Woman rule?" The tempest-tossed soul, whom my vudience | 1 dispossesced, was flut- tering aguin on the thres Sot put Mischievously malapropos question, but the question one’s edi tor always insists that one ask Mary urden, “When are you going to get mar- ried" “Oh-h-h!" thundered the Gen Director in general-directorish tones albelt with a twinkle in her eye “Oh-h-h!"—ehe had come round the table now, and was giving her india: creet questioner a gentle shaking— “how do you dare ask me question? But since you asked it, you may say th!«; “There isn't a MAN between North and South Pole the whom I would marry, now that T have this wonder- ful job on my banda! Goodby!" MARY: GARDEN SAYING © HELLO NEW YoRK” ; “Blond Eskimo’’ Brought to Nome [BEA ° AND > HEALTH BY DR CHARLOTTE C.wEST Covyr © York By Blackheads. ; LACKH BADS consist of olly mut- ha ter that hardened tiny sebaceous result inactivity which require stimulation to free th of The disorder is usually local, but it may be aasociated with sor de rangements of the ul organs; indigestion, torpidity of the 1 poor elreulation, If so, the ary cause must treated 1 and of the are the peur ipla: the outlet They these of of glands, n order nselves the interna Cres and re- moyed; meantime much cun be done locally to overcome the ‘condition. As @ rule the objectionable specks are squeezed out with tho finger nails, which is the sible thing to do. Skins of very deli- cate texture bruised very often the face remains “blotchy” fot several days. The finge nails poisonous in that they carry myriads of bacteria of greater or less harm. fulness to everything they touch, and it requires only the slightest abrasion of the skin, such as invariably results from pressure with the finger nails, to create infection. It cannot be too frequently em- phasized that the skin is an organ, like the heurt and the stomach, with Work to perform, It ia not m covering. This wonderful mec little worst pos- are and HAVE PITY ON A PooR —_ — AE JARB, FAMILY x82. must breathe, because it rids UKTAWANA, a lone male$ syatem of a great deal of waste A member of the far forth-3 ter, and, for Rnst sees: Teaeon day's accumulation from within Sr eae eee eS from without must be U “blond Eskimos,” the discovery of $ inoved. which has been credited to Vil- Wherever blackheads appear on the h Stefansson, Canadian ex-% face, ¢ or back, the skin must et wll ed mas : nt first be rendered pliable and supple, plorer, recently was brought BY} 44 that the pores can willingly yield traders to Nome f! p lis home on their contents w ut breaking the southern shores of Coronation$ surrunding tissues, This oan be iy ‘ easily accomplished by anointing the Gulf, located on Canada's northern 3 easily Scromplisted I bel Se 0 rim, Nome residents thought that} f'n’ qeeply with the finger tips and only in bis dress did he differ from ¥ cach time removing It after five min- | AM SURE ‘ tos" a8 3 nis should be on tiem oh eae several times ‘cach day for as many | HAVE A Joe Bernard, Nome trader, WhO} gays as jt is needful to bring abou QUARTER brought the “biond Kimo out,$ a soft, thoroughly relaxed skin, 1 sald he intended to take him to Die jet od He ga mine the fenre IN MY condition is unsuccessful, applica the United States to show outsid-§ too" Gr fairly hot water with the What sort of people the strange} ui. of genuine almond meal mig AG kimos are. ‘The native was off jee Of Benuhe ead by masse tout build, with copperscolored § with an emollient cream. Some skins aught black hair and dark} hi, a sufficiently heavy textu brown eyes. Bernard suid he was’ 5 permit the employment of a com an example of the mates of the} Diekion brush, but this 48 too hero. “blond” tribe. for thin skins. A better plan then | Some members of the tribe, Be to use for this purpose a shavin nard asserted h-brown Use shaving soap, make a hair are first, just as our brothers d scarcely enough, however, he’ and apply with gentle strokes to thinks, to be described as blond. skin, over and ver rain, by: It was re ted” he when Apuk- thi urfac ft occasionally with soft tawana arrived that Stefanssion? warm water—soften wilh a pinch of nev described the tribe as horax or toilet ammonia an ! re jew “plond." and always said news-§ the application of lather. After this papermen exaggerated his story been performed ently, withow and gave this mysterious tribe thet feree, for ten or fifteen mi a, I'l name, _ Stefi N's descrip warrint that {he skin will be clon was simitar to that of Bernard's, ant in pe instances free Aa © blackheads, \ A Dj SOPHI BY IRENE Lone: % a yon the Pree Publitting Co. the burden of shoulders. She hugged so close to her heart Covyr! " by the Prom lubtidhing Co, Bot . ae ' . Bee ie i oe wae f chief guardian, But now comes the sunshine side The Now York Evenime Wasld , Tee ae : Pot 66TRTEN wonder if it wouldn't N interesting story comes to me nurse sand mother to her young of this siory ones eet, meus rs sacrifice. brother, The young man, who loved this ‘ Es . Kos CLC gh ny i 1 day inorder girl very dearly and who seemal so keepingand goto, bounding, Tt seems the mother of this She worked n nd evan sed a, rt mas i" le acount ae vr great Temarked Mrs, Jarre, “if it wasn’t family of children’ died father’ that peeriees menueve ‘aes 7 : Rie aoe i - t ets eninge hnnerte 2 for the children I'd do it, 1 think. marrted but somehow, as ia § ie no ene to ee oe Bie: eval i HOO sha Meabatag Nicuae la He planed found in cases, he was unable OF nurse at SXCORE BEDS Se’ oe tarteal teen neonrased @Mildren, Besides, there are to keep his family together, not possibly be there ed her anil encouraged (Vane Rue haoe P y The doctors had told her there was her. She loo had longingly thought uy ne an ‘Aten f ah i id This young woman is n bead de- 14 nope, but with her there wus al- of him, zany, many times, but. the be bait " He tig Fe RNS te Sigher—a very axtistio WorKGr ON wavs hope. It never fallod her. \Gha. seeming liwpcasiblliy of the union pent Bs jess mye sbeeg when her family rated, she tvok could not believe it possible that #6! on account of her trials had some. f° board, donde BUS art are t upon herself to care for the yourgz- dear a child could be tuken away haw keve Wien epart hare sone tax. Go tnatst don't lelleve est boy, wthough she was unable to The gricf of this girl knew no Now she too realized the ‘erent. © sent anon G bos “ nner take with her a young sister who pounds. he Imad left no stone un- love that she had for the young ™!"! pee i Mt isn oes ectally te worked and was making her way, turned. “There was nothing undone man. They are to be married very, Mst bow i a sols en sole Such devotion as she gave this that might have been done to save very soon, and all who know them Il prices ipl clo child is rarely seen. Shoe was sister, the little suffere realize what a delightful home of ae eer gage ae a ate a : and generally ask for two helpings mother, playmate, everything, She was in the depths of despair happineas it will be, pa (easigor xe ¥ The child became i! with a mortal when the grim reaper came and tool The young sister, who has been Wendt ddeen't, Wodk ea. tice We disease, yet this girl did not throw away the little one that she had boarding elsewhere, will also come 8 to live with them, and the girl witt "U4 give up our happy home for a . to live with ym, and the ¢ iy eda ; eae a de satiafied in thus havirsr the man bt - money yi pace sgl Jarr, Pianist’s Monument Marble Grand Piano * tows ani st the sain vine give, 8°, | Want the evedom 0 Bde ' ing her young sister a home me ,” remar ee s er arr. ae ‘This is @ case where real reward “le Some boaniing places, ng | “9 came quickly. Here was a girl in fa fae an Vers eoriniDY sto H her very early life who had been on nae) oe: Brees ae bread-winner, mother—everything. Al dey ote li Prey eee and whose future looked rather bare ‘U8 TEL SY oy and desolate because of this latter ‘ ils $ a! ade ir a ee sorrow, a a home, how could I do it at a Yet almost tmmediately. the future b*PNe hou “But you just said children tn spreads bef her with great boarding houss always ask for two arene helpings of deemert?” idl Mr. Jare. She w py. ‘The blue pira MelPiNEe Of dees Pr A ‘Oh, that’s on Sundays or holidaya has come to ber just at a time when + enctina ARKEUCay Ube tary og MEOR The boarding houses have ice ‘ ies Ae VENUTO OF orca or some demert the children Stace 1 will like," replied Mrs, J “And wucritl A ; ‘a ee aula WhO pod food ia better than medicine. | paint eae eet their reward 69° a. doctors always tell you that, after di Me ES REY SEC SOR: 78: t have charged you $5 for their Somes. visit and have written out a presertp- | You cannot do coxd deeds and not 1 at pont YoulSist0 to gc tinea have them come to you in some good. On, dene Tt ts like custing seeds on fertile io might. try boarding « while soil, It may t me time for the kod ventured seeds to grow that you may r ew well enough bis the joy of the lovely plant, but # 1 Wy consider eventually one does, = i RATER RS I doubt if any such sacrifice a ont it If you are so anxt- MOST unusual monument has been erected recently over ‘he grave Mater has mude ever gous u would me to take my onils|| of Harry ‘Thornton, a noted pjanist, in the cemetery in Highgate, “anted: Fett aa 1 In’ a boarding England, The memorial, devised by his widow, is the marble There St lad yi nts we? You, a rerank finding ri 7 e “ae oy aay i t eve thin. 0 ur own home | grand piano shown in the above photograph, prove it, wii everything is done to please | A pl BECOMES OPERA STAR—Read the Prize Fighter Unusual Story of a Young Man's Re- markable Rise—On This Page Soon. Vrvwwe Evite a Tie New York Evon! a By Maurice Ketten Goad NIGHT! CAN'T WASTE MY TINE FOR A QUARTER | yout You'd drive me mad in aw ing houses ruin the sk, boards, and & more morose afid un- best dispo- bag ‘woman £ do not know. But 3 in the world, and you have stall, when L hava to Jay « doer ine of the wor Ithouglt T try to dowen for fresh eggs at this time of please you in everyt goodness year, and eighteen vents a quart for knows.” milk, I sometimes think it wayld be “Why ehould « boarding house ruin chenper to board.” 4 good dlaposition?” asked Mr. Jarr, Well, I'm ready,” avid Mr, Jarr, tactfully ivnoring the charge against Knowing this calamity would’ never his own temperament befall “It mages peuple selfish and irri- 1 dare say you are” replied Mra table,” Mrs. Jarr explained, “The Jarr You are a born barder, you women gossip and backbite, and act as though you were a boarder in everybody grubs at the food. 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