"MATURITY BRINGS ALLURE," SAYS GRACE MOORE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 77, 17 April 1937, Page 8

"MATURITY BRINGS ALLURE," SAYS GRACE MOORE

Men are gradually coming to the I'uropean point of view.that women are most attractive after they reaeh .the age of thirty and, more of ten, thirtylive, according to Grace Moore, beautiful Columbia star. • Miss Moore stated that women.- who reach thirty -five bring to men "the vibrant interests of a developed mind, a finesse about life and an excitement of warmth and understanding." Looking radiantly beautiful in her close-fitting costume for a sequence of her new picture, "When You're in Love, ' ' the singing star became a worthy champion of the women who are forever young when she was approached on the sub ject between scenes at Columbia Studios. "In Europe a woman. is hot considered intere&ting until she has reaehed thirty, more often thirty-iive, " said Miss Moore, and in the years between thirty-five and fifty she is considered afc her most alluring, so why shouldn't it be the same all over the world? After all, it is the European man's viewpoint that makes the European woman forever young. She reachete thirty-five and gallantly remains thirty-five forever after. This is made easier through the knowledge. that she is appreciated so completely by a man, because after thirty she brings to him the vibrant interests of a developed mind, a finesse about life and an excitement of warmth and understanding. ... ' 1 The modern man is becoming wise to the importance and allure of a woman who can give him these qualities and,' after all, it is the attitude of men that keep a woman forever young, chie and interesting Thi's' consciousness of men is our eternal compliment to them and one that we. don't always like to admit. But it's a fact, and if today 's man is growing np, then we grow up with them,. or, if .we 'ro cle'ver, before them. Then if we're very clever, we remain at that high )peak long after he is xeady. for the fireside, slippers and an easy. chair. • "iEvery woman has her performance to give — thoee in private life as well as public.' ■ Youth is like the young. actress or debutante in her first con-. spicuous role.. She may have an appealing freshness, bnt it is only when she ha® found depth and understandingthrough experience that she can hold and thrill her audience. ' "There is, then, no old age for any of ns, for with these qualities we build up a defence for the passing of theyears. There is so much that we canreach out and find along the way, if we keep our warmth and love of life, that we never seem con'scious of the years that speed by and only in that way can we gracefully grow old.' * .