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Plump, red-haired Ljuba Welitsch, 35, was welcomed to the Met as a "curvaceous and arresting Salome" by the Met's onetime No. 1 glamor girl, retired Geraldine Farrar, 67. In a glowing fan letter to the New York Times, Miss Farrar took approving note of "such physical attributes as allow this singer to surmount. . . the terrific vocal demands . . ." She added pointedly: "No voice comes to full-bodied glory on a Hollywood diet, nor are lean thighs the safe caryatids upon which to rear the edifice of enduring and beautiful singing...
...makers as it has poets, artists, musicians, dramatists, historians. The first film Joan of Arc was made in 1900 by French Movie Pioneer George Melies. Pathe made two versions (1909 and 1913). Cecil B. DeMille's crack at the subject (191?) was called Joan the Woman, starring Geraldine Farrar. Perhaps the most exciting version was Carl Dreyer's silent La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), starring Mile. Falconetti...
...PLEASURES OF THE JAZZ AGE (417 pp.)-Edited by William Hodapp-Farrar, Straus...
STATE OF MIND, A BOSTON READER (428 pp.)-Edited by Robert N. Linscott- Farrar, Straus...
Dowager Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 65, now a country gentlewoman in Ridgefield, Conn., had a lungful left for modern music: "They do so much to get so little...