Photoplay (Jul - Dec 1936)

,m After a triumphant tour abroad, the lovely singer is back in Hollywood working on her next starring picture for Columbia — "Interlude" THIS is a study in contrasts, a Yuletide playlet in two acts. To the casual reader, whose vision halts at the printed word, it depicts two widely separated, vastly different days in the life of one of the world's most famous women. To the discerning, however — to those who "read between the lines" — it tells much about the years which elapse; 1 between those days. Let's turn back the calendar one year, to December 25th, 1935. Our curtain rises on a spacious, luxuriously furnished room — a room which in every detail proudly proclaims its owner's cultured taste and affluence. The warm California sunshine, streaming through stately French windows, is reflected in a thousand dancing highlights from the silvered ornaments that bedeck a huge Christmas tree. Under the tree, half buried in piles of gayly tinselled wrapping paper, are scores of costly gifts. In an alcove of the room a young woman sits at a desk, writing a letter. Her face i> known to the music lovers and the theater-goers of the world. Her voice is known to the radio audiences of every country on earth. She is Grace Moore, Metropolitan Opera star, concert -tar, radio -tar, screen star. And this is the letter which she was writing that Christmas afternoon, a year ago. "Dearest Blanche: Another Christmas Day one of the happiest I have ever known — is nearly gone, and I have been sitting here reading and re reading the many telegrams and cards which have come to me from friends in all parts of the world. And I have been remembering another Christmas, which we shared, just thirteen years ago. Truly, life is a fascinating study in contrasts. 26 WHAT Christmas MEANS TO GRACE MOORE