Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sydney Douglas Farrar, 75, father of Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 53; after long illness; in Manhattan. When his daughter was small Father Farrar played professional baseball, kept a men's furnishing store in Melrose, Mass., sold it to help finance her study in Europe. When fame came Geraldine changed the accent on her name. But her father stayed plain "Syd" Farrar. In late years he farmed in Ridgefield, Conn., where Geraldine also has a home. Custom was for him to lunch with her daily, to eat in his shirt sleeves if the day was warm...
RIPENESS IS ALL-Eric Linklater- Farrar & Rinehart...
Heavy with presents were the trunks. From the Met's stagehands there was a parchment scroll in a revolving bronze frame. The choristers gave a bronze plaque, the U. S. singers a silver plaque, the orchestramen a gold plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only...
...goodbys seemed to be over last week with a weepy luncheon at which Geraldine Farrar acted as toastmistress. Gatti was mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini...
Members of the Alumni will gather in the Farrar Room of Andover Hall for luncheon, after which the Dudleian Lecture on "Natural Religion" will be given by Professor Paul J. Tillich, Visiting Professor of Theology at the Union Seminary in New York City...