Show HILL SINGER SCORES SCORE'S Star Home Town Heroine I I f II N if I I k ki S i e ia j je f Yo W t tr r 1 S Sy y ec vS S TT Y tF 7 w Grace Moore stepped from a sm small II town choir to o musical y yand and then to grand lopera in which she will make her debut at the Metropolitan opera house in New York February 7 7 as Mimi in La Boheme Mountain Girl Wins Vins Coveted Operatic Role After Years of Preparation I JELLICO Tenn AP Moore the girl who left her home In the quiet hills to make her dreams of opera come true is the heroine of this little town Years ago go as natives of the Lonesome Pine country heard the gIrl barefooted and with hair streaming down her backS back singing while she played and r rn m over the trails little did they know she was dreaming of the day when she would be a great singer A few months ago many of the same people headed by Governor and oIls Mrs Henry Hemy H. H Horton of Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- were in the Metropolitan opera house In New York to wItness witness wIt wIt- ness the realization of these dreams for then it was that Miss Moore made her debut as Mimi lImi in La Bohem S Here in Jellico where Miss Moore often returns and takes her former place In the church choir the natives tell one that Miss Grace can and has done everything everything every every- thing from driving an ox cart calt actIng acting act act- Ing as her own chauffeur riding a mountain mule or pacing her favorite favorite fa- fa horse over the Cumberland trails to cooking the best meal Inthe in inthe the whole county Grace once sang in the village church choir when she finished high school her parents sent her to Ward Belmont to study voice Two years later Miss Moore went to Washington ashIngton to continuo continue her training and within a few months this little mining town learned sh shwas she was appearing on many of oe the musical musical mu- mu programs attended by President President dent Wilson at the White House Then came her first important public pub pub- lie lic appearance a Washington concert concert con con- cert with Martinelli the tenor H. H Alone se went to New York and obtained a place in the musical comedy Sweet Sixteen Up in inthe inthe the Clouds followed and then she appeared with Raymond Hitchcock In Koo Her successes with the Music Box Dox Revue were next Two years ago Gatti-Casazza Gatti gave her an audition and she went to France to study under Dr P. P M. M 01 Marafioti tan throat specialist specialist and later under Richard Barthelmy coach of many stars including CaruSo A few months ago Gatti-Casazza Gatti heard her sing in inice Nice ice and the conI contract con con- tract was signed I |