Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were snags in that courtship. Ever since Caruso died and Farrar quit the Met, its Italian and French wings needed new blood. Witherspoon had planned to go abroad after fresh talent, dropped dead on the eve of his sailing. Johnson's sailing was delayed six weeks. By that time many a top-notch singer had been engaged, and last year's French and Italian performances had to string along with as little life as ever...
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS- Robert Gessner-Farrar & Rinehart...
WHEN NIGHT DESCENDS-Edgar Calmer-Farrar & Rinehart...
Musical history is slyly footnoted by the mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown...
JILL SOMERSET-Alec Waugh-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Rambling story of a middle-class English girl, who avoids the political conflicts that split her family, the moral chaos that engulfs her sister, keeps herself occupied raising three children and fighting off rivals for her husband...