GRACE MOORE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 186, 7 August 1936, Page 10

GRACE MOORE

RECITAL IN LONDON. HUGE ALBERT HALL AUDIENCE. Grace Moore has a wider fame than that which singers can aspire to today through the art of song alone, says a London paper. She is a heroine of the screen who also sings. So she can fill every seat in the Albert Hall and offer the sort of programme that has been offered by all the regular royal queens of songs who have occupied its platform in former years, and be counted one of them. Her concert began with Mozart’s “L’Amero” just to show her conversance with the classics, and went on to excerpts from her operatic repertory, "Depuis le Jour (“Louise”), Mimi's aria from “La Boheme,” and the gavotte from Massenet’s “Manon,” with other slighter songs. Her voice sounded fresh and buoyant, even if she did sometimes leap at a high note and clear its tone afterwards, and. (except at such moments, its beauty of I quality was unfailing. The contrast between Arensky’s “Valse,” which begins with a dance and ends in a croon, and Nin’s coquettish Spanish song of the Slversmith framing the Maiden’s Kiss, showed her artistry in planning effects. James Stewart will play opposite I Eleanor Powell in “Easy to Love.”

' Matian Marsh, Leo Carillo, and I George Bancroft have been cast for 1 “I Promised to Pay.” A Coward “Discovery.” I Noel Coward and his partner, John iC. Wilson, have discovered a promisling dramatist in John V. Beanes (proInounced “Baines”), and have acquired his play “Rovina.” This is a 'psychological study set in the Swiss mountains, and so impressed are his producers with his work, that they have options on his next three plays. “Rovina” will most likely be done in New York first. Mr. Beanes is only 26, and has taken to playwriting afterseveral adventures in commerce. Already two of his plays have been duced privately—“ Our Mutual (by the Repertory Players in 1934), and “Repayment,” on which he was part author, by the Arts Theatre Club.