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Alexander Lambert the Pictures I Have Made August 28, 1915 MUSICAL AM E ·: R I C A 5 II IFAR.RAR FINDS VASTER PlUBUC IN HlER "MOVIES" II An Exposition of the Possibilities of Expanding Operatic Stories Into Motion Pictures, as Demonstrated by Geraldine Farrar in Her "Carmen" Films. No. I, After Her Fight with "Frasquita," "Carmen" (Miss Farrar) Throws Her Spell On "Don Jose" (Wallace Reid). No. 2, " Carmen" Removes ,the Stains of Blood in a, Mountain Brook. No. 3, "Carmen" and "Escamilla" (Pedro de Cordoba) Outside the Plaza de Toros. No. 4, "Don Jose," "Captain Zuniga" (William Elmer) and Miss Farrar. No. 5, The Captain and " Carmen." ROLLING home to Manhattan in her deed, was her whole trip-to the extent Lasky film studios at Hollywood, Cal., have the figure and acting ability," she of many scrap books full). She said back to New York. said. private car and with thirty-one she revelled in the motion picture She meant that a vaster audience than The arrival of Miss Farrar at the trunks constituting her luggage, Gerald­ work, after the limitations of the oper­ she has been able to reach through her Lehigh Terminal, Jersey City, attracted ine Farrar reached New York on Friday atic stage, and she hustled around as a operatic work would now be hers through an unusual amount of attention. Every­ volunteer assistant stage director in the the medium of the films. In other words, body knew somebody of note was arriv­ of last week after completing her venture three pieces, "Carmen," "Maria Rosa" she will be able to appear before both' the ing. One car wiper, aware only that a. as a Lasky motion picture actress in and "The Temptation," the last a play chosen and the lowly; the rich and the singer was in, caught sight of John California. Accompanying Miss Farrar written for her by Hector Turnbull. poor-in fact, the entire amusement­ Flinn and Brock Pemberton walking · were her mother, Mrs. Sidney Farrar, Most pungent of the accounts of the loving public-and that is exactly what away from the train together. He soprano's home-coming was that given and Mrs. Morr.is Gest and her mother,. she wants to do. stepped up to Philip Whalen, the Lasky by Bide Dudley in the New York Eve­ "It was a wonderful experience," she office boy, who was carrying a big bunch Mrs. David Belasco. Philip, the Lasky nin,q World, as follows: continued. of American beauties and, pointing at office boy, met her with roses at Easton, "Well, I've got 'em all now." "Will it hurt your drawing power as the two young men, asked: as did Mr. Gest and others. Geraldine Farrar, grand opera so­ an operatic star?" "Which one of 'em is the singer, kid?"i prano extraordinaire and "movie" actress "Watch the box office," she replied "Oh, gee!" replied Philip. "De singer Miss Farrar's arrival was fully de luxe, said it just after stepping from chronicled by the newspapers (as, in- quickly. "Ask the treasurer." is Miss Jerry Fanington, not no man." a private car which bore her from the "Will you act again in the movies'?" "Did you buy them roses?" asked the "Oh, I hope to. And I shall if I re­ car wiper. tain my youth and figure." "Who, me? Naw! I ain't got no $50 "But isn't your efficiency reduced with­ bills to waste." out the help of your voice?" When the diva stepped from the train "Not at all! With me acting comes a young woman who writes for a New first. But my voice will be heard with York newspaper rushed up to her, with Alexander Lambert the pictures I have made. The phono­ pencil and pad in hand. graph is to be used." "Oh, Miss Farrar," she said, "what is WILL RESUME .HIS PIANO INSTRUCTION ON SEPTEMBER. 13th "Would you advise other grand opera the first thing you intend to do when· AT 792 LEXINGTON AVE., NEW YORK CITY stars to take up 'movie' acting-Caruso, you reach home?" for instance." "Take a bath," replied the soprano.! . Miss Farrar smiled. "Yes, if they "movie" star. -': .
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