CINE World (Sep 1963)

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a WMWEa Reea and followed it in 1917 with "The Woman God Forgot", with Wallace Reid, who had played Don Jose to her Carmen. During 1918, Geraldine Farrar became a Samuel Goldwyn star and made "Turn of the Wheel", She later appeared in "Flame of the Desert” and "The World and its Women", both with Lou Tellegen, as well as "Shadows" all in 1919, The following year she was again seen with Tellegen in "The Woman and the Puppet", Her final screen appearance was "The Riddle Woman" released in 1921 by Pathé Pictures, Unfortunately, none of Miss Farrar's films ever duplicated the success of her first. The one and only Enrico Caruso was also groomed for Hollywood stardom but, painful to say, his first film "My Cousin", produced by Adolph Zukor in 1918, was such a disappointment that his second, "A Splen— did Romance”, was never released. Poor Caruso! Not only did he have to contend with unpublished recordings, but even with an unreleased film! The enterprising Samel Goldwyn (or "Goldfish" as he was known then) signed Mary Garden to a film contract in 1917, and starred her immediately in one of her greatest operatic roles Thais. Whether the film medium was not suited to Miss Garden*’s personality or vice versa or perhaps the market was glutted with biblical stories at the time, the picture never received wide distribution....or acclaim. The following year saw Miss Garden in "The Splendid Sinner", which title would explain her return to the operatic stage, The noted American beauty and opera star, Anna Case, made one film for Select Pictures in 1919 entitled "The Hidden Truth", Sad to say, the "Select" was only a nom de plume! The silent screen, with rare exception, only served to introduce to the large motion picture public the personalities of these operatic celebrities, rather than their artistic and musical worth, It was not until the ’talkies' did opera stars come into their own and even then their success was only momentarily monetary. The first short subjects with