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...Robert Brown and Miss Brown. Meanwhile telegraph wires were humming. Newshawks searched every town hall on the route, at Holbrook, Williams, Kingman. Flagstaff, to trace a marriage license. None was found. By telegraph the number of the car was checked with California license records, found to belong to Greta Garbo. Next morning in Hollywood newshawks called the home of Garbo's director, Armenian Rouben Mamoulian...
...would President Roosevelt look with dundrearies? Could Primo Camera's appearance be improved by a walrus mustache over his vast gummy mouth? Could Greta Garbo get a job as a bearded lady? Such questions may sometimes arise in the minds of presidents, prizefighters or actresses but they occur more frequently to children who answer them by defacing newspaper photographs...
...blame falls somewhere between the lips of Cinemactress Greta Garbo and the ears of TIME'S Cinema reporter, who thought he heard her say "Voltaire" when she said "Moliere" (born 1622, died 1673).-ED. Quiz Sirs...
...train in Siberia while her parents were fleeing Russia. Blonde Irina Baronova is a few days older, one of the six ballerinas who travel with their parents. It was her slipper that Lawyer Cravath drank from at the champagne supper. Tatiana Riabouchinska, who looks something like Greta Garbo, is the daughter of the late Tsar's banker, and was a pupil of Kshesinskaya, the Tsar's mistress before he married. Tatiana is the Company's greatest problem as well as one of its best dancers. In London where they just finished a 20-week...
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN-Margaret Goldsmith-Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo's latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of Sweden named Christina. But Authoress Goldsmith's biography gives a clearer picture of what manner of woman she was than Hollywood would ever dare. Not a first-rate book, Christina of Sweden at least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like...