Word: slabtown
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...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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