Evening star., 1952-05-24

U1Aov SOIIAIO1lt I'LL movie DfO1eCCS
mothers taking me to the bands
concerts. Then grew up, went to
Roosevelt High School, to Barnard
and Michigan. Publicity seemed
a fine career, so I went into that
worked in New York and Holly
wood. In 1949, I enlisted in the
Marines and was sent back to
Washington and put on the Ma
rine Band job.
1T may not be a small world,
but it is certainly a circular one. +"
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Sergt. Moore who could be the
most impressively stately woman
sergeant in the world, and pretty
too, is the type who could not do
a bad job. Her physical and in
tellectual energy would not permit
1t. When she got the band assign
ment, she had to know all there
was to know about the Marines
proud musical organization.
She virtually turned the Library
OF Congress into personal beach,
head.
Il read everything about the
band and found every word of it
fascinating" she says.
This is why Producer-Writer
Lamar Trotti, who is making the
Sousa film. spotted her at once as
his technical adviser when the
picture actually got under way.
There is nothing like q right
hand woman when you are doing
a story about the Nations most
famous band, especially one sur
rounded by so much dramatic his
tory and complex military ritual.
How did Hollywood's Sousa act
ing company take to Sergt.
Moore's technical advice?
Like lambs" she says. "Of
course. I wasn't q stranger, hay
ing worked in radio publicity out
there. I knew virtually everybody.
And everybody associated with the
picture assumed that knew my
particular job on the 2Oth Cen
|tury-Fox lot.
ITO the extent that I had any
thing to do with it, I selected
actors as if / were recruiting Ma
rines. BY that I mean, if a lieu
tenant was called for, looked for
my idea of what a Marine lieu
tenant should look like; hand
some. clean, courageous, you
know"
Brighter brass was chosen on
the same basis. Sgt. Moore is con-
fldent they will all look a credit to
the corps with which she is so in
fatuated that she has just re-
enlisted for another six years.
II wore my uniform" she says,
"and I think I must have been the
only officially dressed character on
the lot. BY that I mean I was
the real thing where the rest were
merely playing parts. That can
give girl q feeling of confidence.
When one of the top studio execu-
tives stopped to tell me one day
that I looked like a real Marine
sergeant it made me feel espe.
cially proud"
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Sgt. Moore, who used to write
for The Stars Junior page when
she was a student at Roosevelt
High School, was successful as a
publicity professional before enter
ing the Marines.
It raises the question of why she
enlisted.
MY life was getting all wrong
in its time sense" she says. I'm
publicity, you start thinking about
Christmas projects three months
in advance. BY the time Christ
mas really comes. you're sick of it.
Same with Easter and most of the
rest of life.
$50 I went to the Marines and
said Organize me- They thought
I was psyche, but took another
look at my bounding good health
and apparently decided to give me
a trial"
Does she miss the glamour of
the old publicity life in Holly
wood?
Not when she has the Marines
and the Marine Band to occupy
her life.
AS to Hollywood itself, the cli-
mate and all that. she does not
want to be disloyal to her home
town but she sometimes does miss
the Lotus land days and nights
out there.