Word: coventionalism
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...special performance of La Boheme in which the heroine was Grace Moore making her first Manhattan opera appearance since 1932. Since then, with One Night of Love and Love Me Forever, the blonde soprano had become a top-notch cinema success. She had sung in London's Covent Garden at the command of the Royal Family (TIME, June 24), returned to the U. S. to be greeted like a Jenny Lind. Airplanes circled her ship, flying streamers inscribed with "WELCOME, GRACE MOORE...
...home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting a job at London's Covent Garden. Presently she married a Briton named Morris Savage, sub-manager of the Imperial Bank, who was later ordered out to his firm's office in Persia. In her three years in Teheran Mrs. Savage lived in a palace, sang at social functions. The Shah, she says, told...
Under these circumstances, admirers of cinematic grand opera should be pleased to learn that Miss Moore again proves more thoroughly equal to the task of impersonating a sensationally successful grand-opera star than she was to that of being one when she sang at London's Covent Garden before Queen Mary last month (TIME. June 24). Her voice which, in Columbia's recording of it, sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo...
Last month a slender, exuberant blonde of 33 sailed from Manhattan with a gold medal around her neck, a Spanish husband in tow and a contract for three operatic performances at London's historic Covent Garden. Grace Moore had won the medal for her cinema performance in One Night of Love. Her Covent Garden contract was signed because Londoners were ready to buy camp stools, wait in line 24 hours for tickets to see and hear this U. S. singer...
...After the second, London bobbies had to link hands to make a path for her from the stage entrance. Grace Moore's third performance, again in La Boheme, was given last week by royal command. Though the King was slightly indisposed at Sandringham, good Queen Mary went to Covent Garden, sat the opera out in the Royal box, smilingly applauded during 15 curtain calls...