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Show MARY GARDEN I ID BE- UMPIRE 11 OPERA ROW i Former Art Director Says Disputes Dis-putes of Singers Kept Him Awake Mights j CHICAGO. Jan 14 Appointment I ,i Miss Mary Garden as general direct -, or of the Chicago Opera association I brought the artistic differences which have heen circulated to a focus today, j The resignations of Glno Marfnunl, art I dlrei toi "because the disputes of the Singers gave hhn sleepless nli?hts' and Herbert Johnson, executive manager, I were accepted when .Miss Garden was selected. T don't believe In a star regime,1 said Mis9 Garden today ' 1 believe In making the opera the thing and not the artist I would have an under-1 study for every role and if one artist were Hi. another would fin the place and there would never be a change of j opera, even If all the principals were sick as there is no one indispensable in , the world. "I will give 50 per cent of oper;is in Italian. 35 in French and 15 in English, Eng-lish, for the present, until Wagner and other big German composers' works' will be presented in the language in-I tended. 1 will treat them all alike. 33 pi 1 ent Italian, French and German. " hen good opera nines to be written writ-ten by American and English composers, compos-ers, 1 would have their work performed perform-ed in English. Real American opera. In ESnglish Is my most cherished hope " I MISS Garden will serve as director 1 ;.i In r present salary and wih conlln- ue to sing |