Music: Story-Teller

Box 42 at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House resembled a miniature sitting-room one afternoon last week. The antechamber was shut off from the house by a glass partition. In it were flowers, a shaded lamp, a piano and a charming white-haired lady. Geraldine Farrar was making her debut as raconteuse for the Metropolitan broadcasts.

As Lambert Co. (Listerine) anticipated when it engaged her last autumn (TIME, Nov. 12), Farrar proved to be no ordinary storyteller. Her first broadcast was for the holiday matinee of Hansel und Gretel. But instead of lingering over a plot which...

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