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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 I believe that a benevolent Fate has had watch over me. Some have called it luck; some have spoken of the hard work and the many years of study; others have cited my career as an instance of American pluck and perseverance. But deep down in my heart I feel much has been directed by Fate. This God-sent gift of song was bestowed upon me for some purpose, I know not what. It may fail me to-morrow, to-night; at any moment something may mar the delicate instrument, and then all the perseverance, pluck, study, and luck in the world will not restore it to me. If early in life I dimly sensed this insecurity, yet always have I gone onward and onward, eager for that which Fate had in store for me, and accepting gladly those rewards and opportunities which in the course of my career have been popularly referred to as "Farrar's luck." Yet do not think that I waited in idleness to see what Fate would bring. From the days of my earliest recollection I have labored unceasingly to attain the goal which I believed and hope Destiny had marked out for me. My mother tells me that before I was five I had already shown strong music
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