Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-07
MARRIAGE TO A CAVE-NIAN HAS GREATLY ALTERED
GERALDINE FARRAR'S IDEAS OF LIFE AND LOVE
Loyalty and Comradeship
Secrets of Happiness,
Says Prima Donna, Now
Rapturously Happy
Mrs. T e ellegen Was
Against Marriage, Until
Along Came Lou, Who
Would Not Take "No"
Dy AI,LISS

Dy VI LlSS
Always before her marriage she gave
a hard and uncompromising "No" TO
suitor'. some were royal. II was said,
and some were gildcd with much wealth.
Then came Lou Tellegen, and now
Madame Geraldine Farrar eats all Of
those interviews that she gave about the
individuality Of the professional woman
taking unto herself a husband.
She Is frankly and rapturously happy.
"Bul then | did not marry him" she
explained Il had no say In the mat
ter. l was not consulted, lie is a
cavc-iuan. lie IL u dear"
She was IN her apartment at the Eitz
brilliant and lovely and informal la
a little white she would go to the thea
"a" IT, watch the cave-lnan and dear who
Is playing Blind Youth" to Philadelphia
audiences, hut in til" meantime she
would talk about her old ideas Of life
and her new ones. boru Of her marital
experience. with tho exception Of Tues
DAY might wheu she sang butterfly"
Madame FHrrpr has seen all Of her huS-
bands performances here SO far, and
she viii see many, many moro of them.
At the end Of the week." sic said,
"f must go TO New York TO sing.
but then after that shall come
hero again and after that have ten long,
uninterrupted days with alr. TelleScn In
Washington"
The distinguished French actor. whose
impetuous ana ardent Armand" 10
Madame Sarah Bernhardt's Lady of the
camelias" set the pace In America for
rapid fire. realistic stage love-making.
has the famous diva who is his wife fast
by the heart-strngs. She SHOWS IL by
the light in her cyes--pellucid blue-gray
ones. shaded by a forest of black lashes
and by the catch in her voice.
MARRIED A CAVE-MAN
There we're things I always wanted 90
know In the first place. how does 4
worid-renowned singer. who has a wealth
of beauty and the universe at her feet,
ever get married? That is 70 say, how
has any man the nerve, TO drop into the
yernacular, to pop the question" And.
secondly. why did Farrar do it after ad-
vising everybody else professionally en-
ployed against taking the heinous step?
well. will tell you a few things
that have not yet been published.
think" she said Everybody knows that
MT. ltlltptI ana li'L III NalliOTIll
after tho war had started and when we
were both out there for movie WORK.
"But they don't know this: did not
propose TO him. ] did not have 4 chance.
The FIRST Sunday met him ne asked me
10 go driving with him. went, not
suspecting what was to happen to me.
He drove mo out into The oil felds--it
was most unromantic, because the stencil
OF oil is almost unbearable, There he
stopped the conveyance. W. were alone.
He is a cdvc-man. lie said suddenly and
without giving me any warning, L know
how you feel about marriage; every
body knows how you feel about II. But
that makes no difference to me. want
You. I've got to have you. You are
going 20 marry me-
"IIe took me off my feet. Nobody had
ever talked To me like that before. OF
course do not deny that there had been
men who wanted to marry me. but they
did not move me. And go before knew
II | was married
And now I revise those interviews I
used TO give. ] do not altogether repu-
diato them. I cay now If one Is domes-
tically inclined, get married around
eighteen or twenty Build the little
home, have the children. But it one ~
10 have 4 career, do not touch maria ge
before twentyeiGht. if things are 20 go
We'll and marry a professional man"
Madame Farrar is the most brilliantly
beautiful woman have ever talked with.
She has "a face beautiful in Itself but
enhancing IN the mobility with which
hcr thoughts play over It. She has a
sight, graceful figure. a gracious. cha rm-
ing manner, Is intelligent, wholly unself-
conscious and gives you the Impression
of having concealed within herself veri-
table dynamos OF energy and vivacry.
FARRAR'S RADIANT BEAUTY
She made picture as she sat on ths
delft blue divan, her Pom dog, rldicu-
lousy but aptly named Snifies, on her
lap II was hard TO look away from the
flashing eyes aad teeth of the lovely
singer and go only a glance was taken
for the costume. Sne wore biscuit
colorcd afternoon gown with bands OF
cloth Of gold braid on ts collar, a peari
and diamond pendant hung from hand
some chain below the low-cut soft white
crepe vestee Of her costume. A straw
hat matching her gown m color and
with slightly dropping ,brim did not