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The Lasky Studio
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"Well, one hundred thousand dollars for eight weeks' work, six hours a day," said the noted producer. "Add about fifty thousand dollars for private car to and from New York, all her expenses out here, and it makes some little expense bill — but Miss Farrar was worth it. Every one was very fond of her about the studio ; and Mr. Buckland even stood for "Mesha," Miss Farrar's goat, making a choice diet of his rare and valuable drawings. Sometimes Mesha prefers the asbestos covering over the radiators, however. She took part in "Maria Rosa," the play produced for the screen by Miss Farrar before she left Lasky."
He was thoughtfully silent a moment, then brightened up and added :
"Would you like to go out in the yard and see the Plaza de Toros?" said Mr. Lasky.
Of course I was delighted.
Out past the big stage and an attractive two-story bungalow which had been Geraldine Farrar's dressing room, into "Lasky Lane," as the little street is called which reaches from the front wall to the rear of the grounds, on each side of which are the tiny buildings used as dressing rooms and offices, and into the big "yard" we wandered, and into the streets of Seville, cobblestoned, quaint, Spanish as art and knowledge could make it.
It was a perfect reproduction, even to height.
"You see," explained Mr. Lasky, "if
Miss Geraldine Farrar in her cozy bungalow with which the Lasky Company provided her as a home during her stay in California.
"When the opera season is over, Miss Farrar will return and play several roles in which she has been famous."
And naturally the subject of Farrar and "Carmen" led to its setting.
there was a cornice or a scroll or a stone missing or added, some one who saw the picture and had been to Seville would have it spoiled for them. Xot even Geraldine Farrar's wonder