G. F.

CONTENTS

[I.]My Life As a Child[1]
[II.]The Dramatic Impulse[8]
[III.]I Resolve To Sing "Carmen"[18]
[IV.]My First Days in My Dream World[28]
[V.]I Refuse To Sing at the Metropolitan[36]
[VI.]Paris[42]
[VII.]Germany: The Turning-Point[50]
[VIII.]Imperial Encouragement[59]
[IX.]On Tour; Monte Carlo and Stockholm[68]
[X.]My Fourth Season[77]
[XI.]Leaving Berlin[84]
[XII.]My First Appearance in New York[89]
[XIII.]Misunderstandings[99]
[XIV.]The Days I Now Enjoy[108]

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Columbia" (From a photograph by Ira L. Hill)Jacket illustration
Geraldine Farrar (From a recent photograph by Victor Georg)[Frontispiece]
Miss Farrar as a Little Girl in Melrose[2]
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney D. Farrar[4]
Miss Farrar and her First Singing Teacher, Mrs. Long[8]
A Young Girl with a Phenomenal Soprano Voice[12]
Growing up[16]
The Goose Girl and her Flock[22]
Calvé as "Carmen"[24]
Jean de Reszke[26]
Emma Thursby[28]
Melba as "Marguerite"[30]
Miss Farrar and her Mother[32]
Dr. Holbrook Curtis[36]
Maurice Grau[38]
Five Well-known Parts[42]
Camille Saint-Saëns[46]
"I spent the Summer in Brittany"[50]
The Royal Opera House, Berlin[52]
The Kaiser[54]
"My Third Season opened in 'Traviata'"[56]
At Frau von Rath's[60]
Lilli Lehmann[62]
The Crown Prince of Germany[64]
Cécile, Crown Princess of Germany, and her Children[66]
Massenet[68]
Marconi[70]
Caruso[72]
King Oscar of Sweden[74]
"Sans Gêne"[80]
"La Tosca"[82]
Wolf-Ferrari[84]
Leaving Berlin[86]
Mark Twain[90]
"Madame Butterfly"[92]
David Belasco[94]
Sarah Bernhardt[96]
"As Pretty a Flock of Birds as one could find"[100]
As the Goose Girl in "Königskinder"[102]
Kate Douglas Wiggin[104]
Miss Farrar and Caruso in "Julian"[106]
As "Carmen"[108]
Work and play in California[110]
Making New Friends in the Movies[112]
Miss Farrar and Mr. Tellegen
(Photograph Reproduced by courtesy of the International Film Service, inc.)		[114]

GERALDINE FARRAR

THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN SINGER

CHAPTER I

MY LIFE AS A CHILD