_Calve 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-Saens_ 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 _Cecile, Crown Princess of Germany, and her Children_ 66 _Massenet_ 68 _Marconi_ 70 _Caruso_ 72 _King Oscar of Sweden_ 74 _"Sans Gene"_ 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 "Koenigskinder"_ 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