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Rosina Galli 24

Mary Garden as M?lisande 34

Mary Garden as Monna Vanna 38

Mary Garden as Salome 78

Rosina Galli as the Princess in "Le Coq d'Or" 140

MARY GARDEN

I

SUPERWOMAN

LA BEAUT?

"Je suis belle, ? mortels! comme un r?ve de pierre, Et mon sein, o? chacun s'est meurtri tour ? tour, Est fait pour inspirer au po?te un amour ?ternel et meut, ainsi, que la mati?re."

That little girl down Boston way, who had mastered William James and Boris Sidis before she was in her teens, behaved badly one afternoon. Possibly it was the sultry weather, or growing pains--in the psychic sphere, of course--or, perhaps, it may have been due to the reflexes from prolonged attention to the Freudian psycho-analysis and the significance of Twilight Sleep; but whatever the cause, that precocious child flew off her serene handle and literally "sassed" the entire household. The tantrum over--she afterward described it as a uric-acid storm--and order reigning once more in Bach Bay, she was severely interrogated by her male parent as to the whys and wherefores of her singular deviation from accustomed glacial intellectual objectivity. Her answer was in the proper key: "My multiple personalities failed to co-ordinate. Hence the distressing lack of centripetal functioning." She was immediately forgiven. Multiple personalities are to blame for much in this vale of tears; that is, if you are unlucky or lucky enough to be possessed of the seven devils of psychology.

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