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Title: Geraldine Farrar
The Story of an American Singer

Author: Geraldine Farrar

Release Date: June 16, 2010 [EBook #32835]

Language: English

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GERALDINE FARRAR

_THE STORY

OF AN AMERICAN SINGER_

[Illustration: _Photo by Victor Georg_

Signature of Geraldine Farrar]

GERALDINE FARRAR

THE STORY

OF AN AMERICAN SINGER

BY

HERSELF

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

MDCCCCXVI

COPYRIGHT, 1915 AND 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GERALDINE FARRAR-TELLEGEN

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published March 1916_

A DEDICATION

In offering these little sketches of some of the interesting events that
have helped shape a career now fairly familiar to the general public, it
has not been my intention to weary the indulgent reader with a lengthy
dissertation of literary pretension, or tiresome data resulting from the
obvious and oft-recurring "I."

From out the storehouse of memory, impressions crystallized into form
without regard to time or place, and it was more than a passing pleasure
to jot them down at haphazard; in the quiet of my library, on the flying
train, or again, beneath the witchery of California skies, I scribbled
as the mood prompted, as I would converse with an interested and
congenial listener.

It is not, perhaps, a New England characteristic to expand in
affectionate eulogy for the satisfaction of a curious public, but the
threads of these recollections are so closely interwoven with maternal
love and devotion, that this volume would be incomplete without its
rightful dedication to

MY MOTHER

G. F.

CONTENTS

I. MY LIFE AS A CHILD 1

II. THE DRAMATIC IMPULSE 8

III. I RESOLVE TO SING "CARMEN"