Show FORMER FOLLIES GIRL IN OPERA NEW E EW YORK Jan iS S-By S By The Associated Press Press-H Press Press to toi the lie Broadway Broad way that knew her as a Follies girl before her hr opera triumphs MarL Jary ar Lewis makes her debut today at nt the Metropolitan opera house houSt singing the be role of ot Mimi In Puccini's La Boheme The former lormer Lilt Little Littin Rock Icek Ar- Ar Ar Arkansas kansas hansa girl who at the age ae ot of Ight was by her foster foster- foster father ather a Methodist minister be- be be-ause be ause she wouldn't practice on her ber piano has returned to the scene scello ot of her first t operatic aspirations Miss JI Lewis Lewie spent a I season cason as lIS a picture turo bathing beauty In California where she had been after atter running away ay from the parsonage of ot her tester fester father with a road roal show sho In 1920 she henrJ Geraldine Farrar sins sing Madame t the Metropolitan It was the first opera Miss s Lewis 1018 had ever eer heard beard and sho she Vowed vowed owed that thet sho ho would some day appear there At that time she rha was ind LI dancing In a Greenwich Vii Vil- Village Vil Village lage cabaret Three years later she he scored her first operatic sue sue- suc Marguerite J In Faust In Inthe Inthe the Vienna opera house |