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Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...
When Turnblazer first moved into the town of Jellico, Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...
Grace Moore, sweet singer from Jellico, Tenn. landed in Manhattan, said she would conclude her U. S. appearances posthaste and hotfoot back to Europe in the hopes of driving an ambulance, because she wants to "do something for France."* Said she: "The French are the bravest people I have ever seen, the most gallant. ... I owe so much of my artistic life to them." When Miss Moore was asked if she were a good driver, her husband, Spanish Cinemactor Valentin Perera, interrupted: "No, she isn't. I am not going to ride in her ambulance. I will have...
...days before last week's performance the prima donna from Jellico, Tenn. kept to her suite in the Hotel Sherry-Netherland, refusing to speak lest she tire her voice. On the stage she exhibited more grace and confidence than she did at her debut in 1928. Otherwise her progress was unnoticeable. Her voice, at best, is naturally ingratiating. But it is still technically insecure, often feeble and rasping when she strives for top notes, empty and meaningless when she tries to sing...
Grace Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...