The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1915-10-14
GERALDINE FARRAR MAKES
DEBUT IN MOVING PICTURES.

For the first time anywhere, and
before one of the largest and most
responsive audiences in BostOn's his
tory Geraldine Farrar in picutuiza-
ton of Carmen" was presented IN
Symphony Hall last night.
The famous opera, interpreted In
to motion pictures by Miss Farrar
proved to be wonderful exhibition
and was made doubly so on its In
itial production by reason of the fact
that Miss Farrar herself was in the
audience.
All through the beautiful and
tragic piece, while the audience
watched Miss Farrar-Carmen-
of smugglers, beguile and betray
men even to their death and hers on
the screen, they watched too, In
stinctively, the real, the living Miss
Farrar, overcome by emotion in one
of the front rows.
Chills, Yet Inspires.
It chilled, even while it inspired.
The first presentation of the pic
turization of Carmen" to all who
witnessed it, was something never to
be forgotten.
In the first place, perhaps, it was
the motion picture itself-the pres
ence of Miss Farrar, even the recep-
lent of the tumultuous APPLAUSE, the
awakener of tears and sighs-butt.
secondly it was the vast crowd
which thronged the hall to pay trib-
ute to the former Melrose girl, so
long known as Jerry" now one of
the worlds greatest prima donnas.
Flowers, applause, tears - all
vxyaro1;%%1ro11x> h0v MiCS
Farrar.
Crowds Wait an Hour.
| An hour or more before the time
-7:55-when the doors of SYM
phony Hall were thrown open, a vast
crowd choked the entrance on Mass
achusetts and Huntington avenues.
Long waiting lines stood before the
| ticket offices, while other lines
each person forming them already
in possession of coveted ticket of
admission-waited just as anxiously
And there were all sorts and man.
ner of people. They came afoot, in
trolleys, by automobile. Every man
and his wife was out to see Miss Far
rar, and business-suit clad men and
shirtwaisted women rubbed shout
ders with neighbors in full dress.
Truly a cosmopolitan throng was
assembled, but one which gave little
difficulty in handling, and the police
had no trouble in keeping order.
Great Baskets of Flowers.
Farrar-Jeraldine-Jerry was on
every lip, and when the doors swung
open and the great crowd, ever in
creasing, surged inside, it was to an
atmosphere of expectancy. Many
had thought that Miss Farrar al
ready arrived and was in the hall
waiting. Her absence disappointed
set out to watch for her.
The audience entered to find the
interior of the hall perfectly famil-
lar. The only changes were a great
red plush curtain hanging on the
stage and covering the picture scren
and the moving picture machine
with the operators booth erected
erected on the first balcony. The
stage itself was empty, save for the
chairs for the orchestra, half hidden
by potted plants. Great baskets OF
flowers sent to Miss Farrar and to
be presented to her later, stood in
side the lobby.
Score of photographers
In the meantime all that could be
heard was the chatter of voices and
the steady clicking of a score of tele-
graph instruments, set up In the
special telegraph operating room
lust outside the auditorium, for SO
great was the inteles in the first
presentation of the piece that stories
of it were. wired direct from the hall
to cities and towns in every part OF
the country.
Just before S:15 o'clock, Miss
Farrar arrived. Driving up quietly
to the hall and accompanied by Mad
anne jacob of Opera fame,her moth
er and father, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney
Farrar; CA. Ellis. her concert man
ager; Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Gest
Frank Conor and Lou-Tellegen, she
slipped in unobserved, fastened tc
one of the private offices and re;
moved her wraps.
Greeted With Applause
Five minutes later, and even as
the orchestra was seating intself
Miss Farrar entered the hall. A rip
Pile of handclaping started and grew
to thunderous applause, which die
not let up until Miss Farrar ha(
passed down the center isle and seat
ed herself In row II. And man!
times afterward before the pictur
ization of Carmen" itself wa
shown, she had to stand and bow
in acknowledge mt of the noisy tri
butte that was hers.
The programme opened with mu
sic, a descriptive fantasia, "Europ'
in Conflict" by the orchestra con
Quoted by Hugo Risenfeld. At thu
same moment the lights were extin
guished, and from that time, save
for ten minutes intermision, thu
hall remained in darkness.
The audience sat patientl,
throughout the music and severa
acknowledgement studies, Caviar,
Drills, Studies in Horticulture, thu
Birth of a Butterfly, Niagara Fall
and Sunset. Then, with the inter
mission over, Carmen" was shown