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Ever since a siege of rheumatic fever at eleven, Mary Dansereau had been facing the prospect of an early death. The mitral valve of her heart had become calcified. To maintain circulation, her damaged heart had to work harder, and it was slowly giving out. For four years she had been a semi-invalid, unable to do much for her two children, and so weak that she took an hour to make...
...months later, Mary Dansereau is the only human with a part-plastic heart. She will have to take life easy for a while, but even before she left the hospital she felt so much better that she was able to kick up a little...
Mary Garden at 57 must still earn a living. Wisely aware that she is peculiarly fitted for the music of Debussy, she began a Debussy concert tour last week, sang in Monrovia. Calif., later in Los Angeles. After her longtime accompanist, Jean Dansereau, had opened the program with some Debussy piano music, Mary Garden swept on the stage in her oldtime glamorous way. Her singing, as ever, was curiously uneven and husky, a weird combination of song and emotionalized speech. For sensitive listeners who could forget formal vocal technique each of her Debussy songs was a perfect blend of text...
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