Word: slabtown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soprano Grace Moore was always full of plans. They carried her from her Slabtown, Tenn. home to musical comedy, to opera, to Hollywood and back to opera and the concert stage. Last week her ears were still ringing with the cheers of some 4,000 fans in Copenhagen's biggest concert hall, where she had sung Ciribiribin. "When the Iron Curtain descends on my voice," she had said, "I would like to be appointed Minister to Denmark." Meanwhile, there were more concerts to be given, a sick husband (ex-Movie Actor Valentin Parera-once called the "Ronald Colman...
...Francisco to Bucharest, how she romanced with Artist George Biddle, how Maurice Chevalier declared her his only love and Charles MacArthur locked her in a men's lavatory. Between its name studded lines is the real story: the tale of a shrewd, attractive, indomitably ambitious girl from Slabtown, Tenn., who set out to become a celebrity, played every card just right, and finally got there...
Grace Moore had looks and an electrifying personality that would have made her a smash in musical comedy. But to the little girl from Slabtown, opera was still the end in glamor. She saved her Broadway paychecks, worked on her voice, cultivated people. ". . . Never have I underestimated the importance of my rich friends," admits Grace, "because, they have given me the opportunity . . . to sit in the assembly lines of jeweled women who hold down the golden horseshoes of the concert halls of the world. . . . Economic determination is one thing, the mouth of a gift horse another...
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