Word: garbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scandinavians are reaching out in other media. Ingmar Bergman's tortured film canon, topped by The Silence, has built a worldwide movie cult unequaled by any Scandinavian since Garbo's girlhood. Half a dozen Swedish singers, from Kerstin Thorborg to Birgit Nilsson, commute between Stockholm's Royal Opera and Manhattan's Metropolitan. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, author of a classic study of the U.S. Negro and his problems, who went on to become executive sec retary of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe, is currently writing what promises to be the definitive work...
They are, in short, a long and lazy-looking high-fashion triumph. They may not seem quite so devastating on the girl next door as they did on Garbo. But on Garbo, after all, pants weren't pants but a way of life...
...more or less the same perfunctory way, Fade Out-Fade In gives walk-on-and-off bits of business to actors who play characters recognizable as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Bojangles Robinson, the Busby Berkeley chorines, Boris Karloff, Tarzan, Jean Harlow, the Marx Brothers, Garbo, Mae West, and Louella Parsons. Meanwhile, the main show goes down for the long, long count of boredom...
...wholesale switch of cigarette smokers has jumped the cigar-smoking populace to 18 million. Among them are an estimated 100,000 women, including such well-pouted puffers as Greta Garbo and Edie Adams, who advertises Consolidated's Muriels. The heaviest pitch to women has been made by second-ranked General Cigar ("Should a gentleman offer a Tiparillo to a lady?"), but Consolidated has also acknowledged the market. It's "Have you noticed how many men are smoking cigars?" ads have been discreetly rephrased to "Have you noticed how many people are smoking cigars?" The cigar companies doubt that...
...very involved emotionally for three months; then it's over and we say goodbye." She is now 34 and wants to be a director herself. She has directed three plays so far, and one short film. She could perhaps be a Swedish international star like Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman, but after a disastrous experience in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, she intends never to work again for Hollywood, whose exemplar potentates she recalls as "not very dependable-little crazy people you couldn't trust." Her husband, Harry Schein, is a millionaire refugee from Austria whose entire family...