“ONE NIGHT OF LOVE.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20561, 12 March 1935, Page 3

“ONE NIGHT OF LOVE.”

Grace Moore’s Great Film Starts on Friday. “ The Gay Divorcee ” (Ginger Rog ers and Fred Astaire), which is now well into the second week of its successful season at the Mayfair Theatre, will be shown finally on Thursday night. Good “ shorts ” are also screened. A new and indescribable thrill in screen entertainment awaits motion picture audiences who see Columbia’s “ One Night of Love,” starring the glamorous, golden-voiced Grace Moore, which will open at the Mayfair Theatre on Friday. Grace Moore, known in every city in the world where she has appeared on the operatic and the concert stage, achieves the heights of screen stardom as a result of her superb dramatic portrayal in this extravaganza. Her role is that of a young girl who goes to Italy to study for an operatic career. There she meets a romantic, debonair music teacher, splendidly interpreted by Tullio Carminati, the international stage and screen star, who immediately offers to develop her for the Metropolitan in New York, but with the reservation that their association remain untarnished by even the slightest suggestion of a love affair. Needless to say, Grace Moore wins the acclaim of Europe and America for her glorious voice, but finds fame surprisingly empty without the love and caresses of her music teacher. In a fit of temper she leaves Carminati. But without his presence her voice chokes in her throat and her heart refuses to sing. The climax, where Grace Moore stands on the stage of the Metropolitan to sing an enchanting aria, is one of subtle sentiment. It marks the highlight of a production that is a milestone in the history of the cinema. In addition to Grace Moore and Tullio Carminati, the film boasts an imposing cast that includes Lyle Talbot, Mona Barrie, Luis Alberni and Jessie Ralph. Victor Schertzinger, who directed, also composed the title song. Box plans at the D.I.C.