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RADIO STARS
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day to a woman who knew her when she was a kid in Tennessee. "She was always that way," this friend said. "She could always make people flock around her— boys and girls both. She taught a Sundayschool class, sang at morning services, led a children's choir and was always the ringleader of every town enterprise.
"There was a boy who was mad about her. He confided to me, almost with tears in his eyes, that he had thought Grace was crazy about him until he saw her with other boys and realized that she treated llicm all equally well and was as charming with one as another. Maybe that trait, which began back in Jellico, Tennessee, is the secret of her great success with men.
"When she told me she wanted to study for grand opera I was amazed. I even laughed at her — I think now with shame. Her voice was sweet and very tender but it was not, I felt sure, a great voice. I told her so and she wouldn't believe me. In just the same way she wouldn't believe Hollywood when they told her she wasn't star material. Grace's not believing people is what has made her a success."
She wouldn't believe her father when he said he would not let her study for grand opera, so she ran away from school and sang in a Greenwich Village restaurant called "The Black Cat." Literally she sang for her supper and when her irate father came to New York to take her back home she wouldn't go with him. And even when she lost her voice completely she would not give up. Dr. Mario Marafiotti, one of the most famous teachers and throat specialists in the world, remembers a girl who sat in his office for three days waiting for him. Time and again he told his secretary to tell her to go away that he was too busy to see her. But she sat until, worn down by her patient presence there, the doctor examined her throat.
He could promise her nothing. He said that six months of complete rest and relaxation might help her. And he forgot about her — forgot about her until Grace Moore, the Metropolitan Opera star, recalled herself to him.
You know how she was refused by the opera company and how, undaunted, she studied in Europe until Gatti-Casazza himself, asked her to sign a Metropolitan contract. You know how she returned to Hollywood and made a startling and tremendous success. And you know how brilliant and successful her radio programs are.
And now she stands triumphant. What is she like today?
She married the Spanish actor, Valentin Parera, in July, 1931. You've read of their meeting, two months before. Grace
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