Music: Garden Reduction

When the War was in France, Mary Garden was in Monte Carlo reducing. "I long," she said then, "for the days when I can take off my corsets and eat, eat, eat." Many a year since, the press has found her in Monte Carlo. Until September it would wait. Then, heralding the approaching music season, it would announce that Mary Garden was reducing and rehearsing, soon would return to Chicago. For years in less than the ordinary bathing suit, recently in no bathing suit, she has reduced by swimming in the Mediterranean. Last...

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