Word: farrars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1910s, when shapely, grey-eyed Geraldine Farrar was the most shimmering star of Manhattan's Metropolitan, operatic prima donnas were the world's most galumptious glamor girls. In 1922, before her cult had time to die, 40-year-old Soprano Farrar retired from the operatic stage to live a secluded life on a Connecticut farm. Last week she published her autobiography,* a curiously constructed narrative half of which is written in the third person as though seen through the eyes of Soprano Farrar's deceased mother...
...daughter of "Syd" Farrar, who played first base for the old Phillies, Geraldine was born in the little town of Melrose, Mass. In Manhattan, where she went to study, she was offered a chance to sing small parts at the Metropolitan. But Soprano Farrar wanted a big chance; she refused, went to Europe to continue her studies. At 19 she was already an admired figure in European opera. At the Metropolitan, when she returned famous, she rubbed arias for 16 consecutive seasons with such famed songsters as the late Enrico Caruso and Antonio Scotti, she sang some 29 roles, played...
...plump, homey individual, as different from Soprano Farrar as Pilsener is from champagne, Soprano Lehmann writes much better. The daughter of a small town bookkeeper who wanted her to be come a respectable stenographer or school teacher, Lotte Lehmann made a very gradual climb to stardom, worked her way laboriously through bit parts at second-rank German opera houses. It was not until the London Covent Garden season of 1923 that she won international fame. But once won, that fame stuck like well-swabbed glue...
...HOUSE OF TAVELINCK-Jo van Ammers-Küller-Farrar & Rinehart...
...Wall-Mary Roberts Rinehart-Farrar & Rinehart...