GARDEN, MARY

(1877), Operatic soprano. 0b. in Aberdeen, Scotland, and came to America at six. At that age she began to study the violin and i aren at concerts when 12. In 1896 she studied voice in Paris under Trabadello, Cheval lier and Iugére. Her first operatic appearance was in Car pen tier’s ‘Louise’ at the Opera Comique, Paris, on April 13, 1900, when she substituted le. Rioton who had fallen ill, in the third act, and subsequently played the Sue for 100 nights, After singing in ru els and London she appeared at Hammer stein's Manhattan Opera House, | N.Y. in ‘Thais’ in 1907, and later sang the parts of Melisande and Salome, She first sang in Chicago in November 1910, and has since been with the Opera Co. of which she became in 1921. Among her best roles ‘Sappho.’