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Dowager Soprano Geraldine Farrar, 65, now a country gentlewoman in Ridgefield, Conn., had a lungful left for modern music: "They do so much to get so little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Matter of Opinion | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Doghouse. In Ridgefield, N.J., Warren William Whittaker, arrested in a municipal park while knocking together a hut out of public picnic benches and tables, explained to police: "I wanted a place to go whenever my wife picks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Geraldine Farrar, now 61 and long the buxom mistress of a rural estate in Connecticut, appeared in her Red Cross uniform at a war bond rally in Ridgefield, auctioned off a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Geraldine Farrar, soprano emeritus, sent OPA General Manager Chester Bowles a few suggestions from Ridgefield, Conn., where she heads a consumer committee of the local rationing board. Her ideas: reduce OPA's printed matter and its "complex reiteration"; reduce the "verbiage to a point of clarity"; have a little faith in the average merchant's honesty and stop prying into his affairs; cut down on exhortations to the consumer; throw out the "paragraph dictators and their Bourbonesque indifference to the attitude of the general public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...rent at a sky-high figure if they were not partial to the idea, which they haven't been in the past. There are some groups already participating in the permanent Repertory idea: Jasper Decter's Hedgerow Theatre outside of Philadelphia; the Michael Chekhov Players, established in Ridgefield, Conn,. but almost constantly on tour; the Seattle Repertory Playhouse; the Cleveland Play House; and here in Boston, on a lesser scale, the New England Repertory Company, a brave little organization, constantly gaining in support...

Author: By Jervis B. Mcmechan, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 5/16/1942 | See Source »

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