AUDIENCE OF CONVICTS,

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 9

AUDIENCE OF CONVICTS,

Miss Geraldine Farrar, a singer in Kfund opera, had (says: the Now York correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph") .a remarkable audienco "Down South" on tho afternoon of Maiy, 8, whan ,1000 convicts in the Georgia Stato Penitentiary, in Atlanta, heard her sing. They had learned that Miss Farrar, together with Caruso, Scotti, arid Maclaino Gadski, would bo giving a" week of grand opera in tho State capital, and, nothing daunted', they invited Miss Farrar to appear before them. The charming soprano at once agreed, and drove to :the prison, when she found the convicts, .amongst them were Mr. C. W. Morse and five other bankers once prominent in the business world, gathored in the large auditorium. . Miss Farrar played her own accompaniments on the piano, and for nearly forty 'minutes enthralled her heprers. Her songs in-

eluded: "Annie, Laurie," "Coming Through the Rye," '"My Old Kentucky Home, "Swaiiee River,!*' and l "Horne t Sweet Home.", By the time she had finished there : iSras not' a. dry. eye • in the audience, and tears wore streaming down her own 'cheeks. Warder Moyer grasped her hand and. exclaimed,."This has been worth more than a hundred sermons."

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