Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-20
TULSA IS EAGER
TO HEAR FARRAR
Her Appearance Here Oct.
80 Source of Eternal In
tcrcSt at Present.

The announced appearance. Of Ger
Ildinc farrdr In the name Iclc %
GARNER here hG" clrntcd more OF
fdrore in Tulsa than ever ether par
ticula. Of the coming OF the Eds OPP
era company, which present. Hilets
masterpiece on the night Of October
80, and al TroNutore" on The follow
ing night according 10 those IN charge
Of the season.
In purchasing tickets for the first
nights performance. niLe-to nths OF
the music lovers must be assured that
The eminent prima donna ls . he here
IN the ilesh and not on some Decent
screen. Officials say that the fr me or
the little songbird is unlNors..
Announcement that the Jcnitins
Music company viii give q complete
program of Carmen" tonight at the
store on South Main street in conuec-
ton with a lecture on the opera by
w X. GuiberSon was further en-.
hanced when It was learned that III
records to he used were made hN l'dI-
rar herself.
1t has been said ana until Farrar
came, with uuth--that "CHImen'
could be sung with success only 10y a
woman who had hot Latin blood IN
her veins. Like Santuz2a In Mascag-
mis- "CaIalleria HUsticana." Carmen is
primitive emotions that that tenn de-
notes. The more sluggish nature or
rerhern women finds II. Hs q rule,
impossible even to simulate the FER
VII. impulsiNo character Of the primi-
tive women of the south. This has
been shCwn 10 be true tEroush the
long succession 81 failures and semi
failures IN the part Of Carmen by
singers Of unquostloned talent ana
Imagination.
Has Notable Succcsses
The wonder IL. then. that Geraldine
Farrar, born ana bred in New Eng
land Of Puritan stock, can not only
find the part OF Carmen sympathetic
woman a living, breathing personality.
Mss Farrar has had many notable
"ucccSses in her career and some roles
in the modern repertoire Of opera
must be henceforth indissolubly con-
ncctcd with her name, but in the end
ner greatest triumph so far has been
her Carmen. for she in this not only
nhows her wontel skin In action and
in song, but is able fairly to hypnO-
tiYe her audience into the belief thai
she is actually "A Spanish gypsy.
In many respects MISS Farrar's car
men differs radically from the tradl-
tinns Of the past. vet her charaCtcri2a-
ton IS one Of absolute artistic svm-
metrv. following consistently from be-
ginning to end the golden rule Of
nothing too much" Her Carmen
perhaps more than that of any of her
most distinguished predecessors, is
filled with a certain element of poesy
and fantasy that brings II very close
to the 3ark-eVcd gypsy girl about
whom Prosper Merimoe wound his
celebrated romance. Farrar's Carmen
is neither a slattcrnly drab nor a me-
ticulous prudc She is a child OF na-
ture absolutely without sense of
n oral responsibility, whose sole aim
In life is pleasure and self-stat.fica-
ton She finds il first In the excite
mont OF winning Jose away from his
duties as n soldier and turning hin,
into n deserter md n smugTlcr. That
done fhe loses interest In him ana
finds her next qualification IN The fine
clothes ehowered on her by the popu-
lar toreaJor. Escamillo. she reads her
fate I'm the cards. Is depressed for q
minute. and then accepts 1t as all IN
DAYS work In other words the
Carmen of Miss Farrar is cne which
holds tho sympathy of tho audience
from beginning 10 end. This. In the
end. is the greatest achievement OF
any actress