Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-12
876 IteIY Effects
 Of G 1ldine FarFaF
Which Are Scheduled to be Sold at Public Auction Fri day and Saturday.

New York, Oct i1-"Memories for sale" might well be tackled above the doors of four big chambers at the Fifth Avenue auction rooms which were thrown open today for public inspection of the effects of Geraldine Farrar, scheduled to be sold at public auction next Fri day and Saturday.
 For indp those chambers Americas most famed diva had crowded all the physical Lmenlentos of her long and bril- liant career on the Metropolitan stage and all that could remind her of her equally famous, but briefer and less sue cessful career as the wife of Lou Telle- gan.
 Gorgeous costumes, wigs, shawls and jewels that she wore in her most famous role are there in profusion. So are the rich furnishings of the home she oc- cupied with her famous actor husband furniture. tapestries, rugs. even rubber doom mat with it's inlaid "F''.
 Farrar, through with opera as she is through with romance, plans to hit the trail soon in private car for a con- cert tour of the United States. After that she is expected to appear under the management of David Belasco on the speaking stage.
 The exhibition opened today, drew i throngs of Farrar devotees-from first nighters who were present a decade and half when she made her Metropolitan debut, down to the youngest Gerry Flap pers who have hung in breathless awe on Gerry's career as a prima donna and a screen star, as bride and a near di- vorcee.
 i And what they saw established for ever Farrars reputation for lavishness 1 in all single one fraught with memories ot stage or shattered romance.
 l About twenty of the diva's most fa-
 nous costumes are draped on headless dummies in one of the exhibition cham i bers. Among there are the red spangle6 | frou-frou creation that dazzled first nighters at Zaza the cloth of silver gowr i with American flag draped from the i shoulder which Farrar sang during tho | Liberty Loan campaigns and the cour dress of silver cloth with queens capt 1 of blue velvet and ermine (reputed cos ! S1l ,000) which she wore but three times in the ill-fated La Reine Fiamette 1 Scores of other famous costumes hans
 about the walls in serried ranks, lik l ordinary garments in a clothes closet Her carmen wardrobe alone would b.
 sufficient to equip a half dozen carmel road companies. There are six basic
 costumes, fourteen shawls, six blacl | wigs, five mantillas, dozen Spanisl fans, and enough beads, earrings, brace lets castalets, girdles, hair combs am jet trinkets to outfit a cigarette factor. full of carmens.
 Farrar's wigs alone fill several shoy cases, for she invariably covered he
 black tresses with wig, eve min opera
 where her role called frr black hair
 There are auburn wigs for Fianette an
 Zaza; blonde wigs for Marguerite an
 Thais; light brown wigs for Manon
 dark brown wigsh for A1ignon; blac
 wigs for Butterfly and Carmen.
 Among the brightest spots of the e1
 hibit are the kimonos worn In Butter
 fly. Thee are ten of these each byin
 with all the others for the ultimate i
 gorgeousness. Among the trappings her romance with Lou Tellegen offere
 for sale are Louis XVI drawing rool set; Farrars bedroom set of ivory enan el, the old rose damask hangings an Tellegen's bedroom set of kingwood wit : yellow striped hangings done la Lou XVI.
 l Even a picture which stood on Fai rar's dressing table, showing the singt 7 and her mother in the days of the Be lin triumphs which preceded her Amer
 can debut, is for sale
 Besides, there are linens, tableware ar the like, all initialed "r" or "G. F. T l and-the door mat