Show m arY ry Garden Starts a War on Adiposity I I And Opera Stars Spars Soon Will Be Miry tuk dent t like JiVa- i iA and walls ft tie ea a. a r Ar morning 4 I lessen your C SyA M d A G lw J aci 1 k r c s R h hA A M IY c t a i I 1 x fenced 4 ii to saute 4 Its Ut's a Hard Job Joby This ping king of Attaining Pul- Pul ie by Rigid Dieting U id Cruel Exercise Par Par- So for the Italian thool for One Comard Cornland Corn Com land ard Is Cut Out SpaI Spa Spa- etti y I y MARGUERITE MOOERS I IP MARSHALL The Tel am Special N sew XOI n S Service r I AGO Nov ov 30 If I If you wa want t to toh h n n. n stand in water up to your yourI I lid I wave a heavy sword Or get jS j i iII S II side partner for Jess Willard unfashionable and ride a bicycle ke walks through the morning j hove Above all eat everything you ike like and cut down your spaghetti spag II to t to the vanishing point you ou shrink from the program ibe I be Dese se are the ordeals of f A y V. J By these and other feats the 1 Opera W association eliminated al aggregate re atE something like a ton toni i I II I of adiposity during the summer Cleofonte Cleofonte Cleofonte Cleo- Cleo fonte Campanini the company's distinguished distinguished distinguished distin distin- director and formerly conductor conductor conductor con con- ductor of the Manhattan opera house housein in New York has given me In careful detail the methods half a dozen gre great t singers used to reach the melting point Campanini Declines to Take the Credit There is a persistent rumor that Mr Campanini's own prescriptions did the reducing for the half dozen But he modestly disclaims any panacea Once my mall mail was burdened with requests for auditions he told meNow meNow me Now It is filled with demands for do doing doing doing do- do ing away away- with surplus weight and with pleas to tell how this or or- that one of the singers lost weight and still kept fit The best that I can do is to state from a considerable experience some of the general principles Involved I am absolutely opposed to any so called remedies for reduction that are taken internally because they disorganize the whole interior department and leave the individual individual individual indi indi- vidual with far worse trouble than mere fat I do not know of any remedy better than com on sense and the application of old fashioned rules Irregular eating is bad leading to indigestion and of food An avoidance of sweets and starchy food is advisable because any anyone one will take on flesh with overindulgence ence in this line Generally Generally Generally Gen Gen- speaking the best rule is to eat the things you do not like if you find out you are accumulating weight too rapidly Above all things avoid drinking while eating be a master of your own appetites keep hustling and you will not get fat Mr Ir Campanini paused a moment his chin resting on his hand his fine brown eyes meditative We Ve know that poets painters and philosophers inveigh against ruman fat as a disease nobody disease nobody loves a fat man orbe or the tho Ladies far farbe farbe farbe be observed As for be it from me to speak of them save in kindness but I do know that seem to have a horror of taking on weight and of losing a waist line But ButI I understand why operatic stars are particularly sensitive when It comes to any enlargement except it pertains to salary and proper recognition In the matter of publicity Artists are more the thc victims of friends tan Aan tan of themselves I know this from long experience The dear public so ardently desires to wine and J O oc aee e Arar Dua Ara ti r aeS bares r ties ties- militar C sk r dine them that it is difficult to refuse the pressing demands Man Many eminent artists have ave let good nature get the better of their Judgment In these things the sad but convincing answer Is their absence from the stage The prima donna Is not the buxom comedienne comedienne comedienne come come- dienne who can profit pro by making fun funI I of herself and have the public laugh with her The singer cannot take any I such risk She is constantly confronted confront confront- ed by the peril of fatness fatness- Secret Is Out Mary Garden Started It I f But what started this all around re reduction ref re- re as as the department stores phrase it it-in it in your ranks I I recalled I Ithe the philosophizing Mr Campanini I might have known the answer What who What who variably i starts things in operatic circles lines circles lines I mean Are not coloratura curves banished Who Vho but our Mary I Said Mr Sir Campanini Campanini- It It was a foregone foregone fore fore- gone conclusion when Mary Garden I came back to America ri l last summer I ea od 1 and announced nc that she e had reduced u I twe twenty four four tY-four pounds that a precedence nce I would at once be established so I am amnot amnot not surprised at the results The Mary Garden figure has long been the envy and despair of the less fortunate thin 0 or fat sister and Just how she accomplished the new departure without without with with- out affecting her perfect proportions was something that every woman woman to know I M Miss iss Gardens Garden's receipt for re reduction reduction reduction re- re is in substance care in diet eat diet eat what you do not like like like- stop loafing get busy and when I you are net not otherwise occupied walk These TI-oese things are simple and practicable and ad ohe ahe he carried them out herself elf For after a summer in Scotland rising a and d w walking in the morning mists she went to Paris and became a very active personage personage personage person person- age in the A tC Ambulance Corps hospital hOpital Sin Singularly enough h. h the f first to put M o into practice the precepts advocated by Miss Garden was mere man Vittorio man the big basso b began gan taking long walks his wife and his friends were distanced He I daily lessened his portion of spaghetti too took to burnt toast and lean chops and began drastic reduction I Octave Dua the tenor who is almost as wide as he is high last summer almost purchased a bicycle and organized an opera oper company into a riding class Geraldine Farrar Did Some Stunts Herself I I asked Geraldine Farrar how I she shoe looked so w well ll after an arduous arduous I ous summer of hard work in moving moving moving movI I ing pictures following her double I operatic season She promptly responded By doing all the things that a careful prima donna should not do I went racing about the country astride a big horse hors in a suit of armor I frequently stood in water up to my neck waving a heavy sword Je leading ding France Franco to victory I was starved in prison and burned at the stake I just lived out of doors arose with the sun went to bed with the tKo chickens and subsisted on the grit bed diet of the goose gooke goo e girl in This a actually tu lIy was her experience in impersonating Jeanne dArc d'Arc Of course such a routine Is exceptional but Miss Farrar is an woman and can afford to take more chan chances es than a frailer person Lucian raised in the school of the soldier is not likely to grow fat for he is as regular in his exercise as he is careful In his diet I recall that the brothers De Jean and Eduard both kept down so sowell sowell sowell well by fencing boxing and riding that they maintained the same weight I from the beginning to the end of the season Look at Charles Chatles Dalmores He Heis Is Isan isan an accomplished athlete and nd is constantly constantly constantly con con- in trim He is a great advocate advocate advocate cate of ot out of door walking and never neglects It rain or shine I believe he could make a showing with almost any professional pugilist without going into training training as as that is a happy habit with him and and not a gruelling task As for the women of our organization tion I fancy fanc the they will compare favorably favorably favor favor- abl ably with any operatic organization In Inthe inI inthe the world for pu pulchritude f for r beauty I of face figure and voice They have been gifted and graced by Nature and andI they are willing to make the sacrifices that are essential to keeping in good I form when one belongs to a profession that works indoors I It seems truer than ever that to be be beautiful one must suffer i |