Music: Exuberant Grace

The nearest thing in modern opera to the lobster-supper diva of musical fable is exuberant, 42-year-old Grace Moore. Like the Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur.

Last week Grace Moore summed up her three-ring career as diva, musical comedy star and cinemactress in an...