Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farrar career has always been well planned, from the girlhood day in Melrose, Mass., when Geraldine impersonated Jenny Lind and attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father...
Miss Geraldine Farrar aus New York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing...
When she retired from the Metropolitan at 40. Geraldine Farrar turned to German Lieder which would not tax her voice. She gave herself exactly ten years on the concert stage. In 1932 she again retired, vowing never to sing again in public...
...since then has been that of a country gentlewoman in Connecticut. She keeps birds and gardens, admires the neighbors' babies. Every day her father ("Syd"), who keeps a separate home in Ridgefield, comes over to luncheon with her, eats in his shirtsleeves when the weather is warm. That Miss Farrar's energy and determination have outlasted her once raven-black hair was proven last summer when on the way to the Salzburg Festival, Nazis stopped her German chauffeur, refused to let him pass the border. Miss Farrar got out of her car, hiked a good five miles into town...
...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...