Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened in September, 1912, with a New York Symphony concert under the baton of Walter Damrosch, featuring Dame Maggie Teyte as soloist. Since then, practically every artist of . international repute, from Ignace Paderewski to "Jerry" Farrar, has appeared on its platform. The concert-entrance is on 43rd Street, the Aeolian business entrance on 42nd Street. Thus the tainted atmosphere of commercialism was never permitted to invade the sanctum of Art. Now and then, free player-piano and player-organ concerts were given of a forenoon when no orchestra was rehearsing, but these, being free, were not too well attended...
Said John Farrar, Bookman editor: "The man who created the famous Brownies was one of the gentlest and quaintest people I have ever met. His whole life seemed to be tied up in the absurd and entertaining little creatures he had invented. Before you had known him very long, he would present you with a card on which he had painted a Brownie in glowing colors, and had printed a verse supposed to be peculiarly fitted to your own temperament. I think that Mr. Cox came to believe that there was something mystical about a Brownie. Perhaps there...
...MIDDLE TWENTIES?John Farrar ?Doran ($1.50). Into this slim, trim volume, the editor of The Bookman has packed poems of infinitely varied moods. There are elfinly humorous love lyrics, the brooding sombreness of a group called Portraits, War Women, and even one appalling trifle which concerns itself with a cocktail made by alcoholizing the bodies from Egyptian tombs...
...Crowned heads of the world's musical aristocracy are not lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest bits are the naive little confessions. "The jewels I wear on the stage are all imitation." ... "I might as well state categorically that my hair...
...JUANES?Marcel Prevost? Brentano ($2.00). Dedicated by its translator (Jenny Covan), for some inexplicable reason, to Miss Geraldine Farrar, this ultra-Gallic spectacle of feminine psychology concerns itself with the author's idea of post-War France. It advances the age limit commonly allotted to heroines; all four of these are 40 or more. But apparently that fact only makes their aim, when tilting at their windmills, a little more deadly. They proceed devastatingly on their way, and all young rivals of 20 or so are pushed out of the picture...