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"Why should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs. She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh,"...
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