In 1916 he presented a four-week opera season at the Grand National Theatre in Havana, where his company included Geraldine Farrar and Pasquale Amato.
Among those who came to hunt or fish and built cottages on the Lakes were Geraldine Farrar, the singer, as well as Jack Clifford and Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw.
A patron of the arts, he provided funding for the training of many vocal artists, including Geraldine Farrar.
For his work in recording, Crooks was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; located at 1648 Vine St. The Los Angeles Times, which has documented and photographed every star on the Walk as part of its ongoing Hollywood Star Walk project, has been unable to find Crooks' star (or the one for the film career of Geraldine Farrar).
Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.
A wall exists showing the signatures of some of those who came to Wayland including Ellen Terry, George Arliss, Florence Arliss, Katharine Cornell; the house archives show that other guests included diva Geraldine Farrar, and actors Ethel Barrymore, John Drew, Norah Bayes, and others.
Geraldine Farrar | Jay Farrar | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Geraldine Ferraro | Geraldine Chaplin | Stewart Farrar | Margaret Farrar | Jessica Farrar | Janet Farrar | Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation | Geraldine Fitzgerald | Andrew Farrar | Geraldine McNulty | Geraldine James | Fred Farrar | Farrar & Rinehart | Farrar, Missouri | Farrar | Deniro Farrar | David J. Farrar | Cicely Jordan Farrar | Sam Farrar | Robert Farrar | Rick L. Farrar | James Farrar | Geraldine Wooller | Geraldine Swayne | Geraldine Somerville | Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge | Geraldine of Albania |
Other famous twentieth-century singers to appear at Monte Carlo included Titta Ruffo, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Tito Schipa, Beniamino Gigli, Claudia Muzio, Georges Thill, Lily Pons, and Mary McCormic.
During his career, Reginald Barker directed early stars such as Geraldine Farrar, William S. Hart, Sessue Hayakawa, Gladys Brockwell, Hoot Gibson, Willard Mack, and Myrna Loy.
Over the next twenty years it received over fifty new productions from Palermo to Paris, Buenos Aires to Moscow, Cairo to San Francisco, arriving at The Metropolitan Opera on 16 January 1920 in a production directed by David Belasco and conducted by Roberto Moranzoni, starring Geraldine Farrar, Giulio Crimi and Pasquale Amato, and later Giovanni Martinelli and Giuseppe De Luca.