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Elena Karam heads the white members of the cast and turns in a creditable performance, although hampered by poor direction and a Swedish accent, possibly derived from too great admiration of Garbo in the Napoleonic film, "Conquest." Alvin Childress heads the Negro cast in the role of a former slave and the father of Miss Karam. His role is very sympathetic and not very exacting, facts which make him the outstanding figure of the drama. Little can be said for the other actors white or Negro, except that they appear clumsy on the stage and give unnatural emphasis to their...
Back to the U. S. the Swedish liner Kungsholm brought Greta Louvisa Gustafsson, alias Garbo. More approachable than usual, after her summer in Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that...
...from Philadelphia last week was the symphony's other co-conductor, sad-eyed Leopold Stokowski, resting in Beverly Hills, Calif, after a less industrious but equally eventful European summer in the company of Greta Garbo. Since Great Conductor Stokowski's blow-off with the symphony directors in 1934, when he relinquished his post as music director, he and co-Conductor Otmandy have been nominal equals...
...industry are a handful of producers, generally one at each studio, who are ultimately responsible for the success or failure of its total output. Under the producers and associates in the scale of authority are directors. Under the directors is everyone else on the lot, from grips to Greta Garbo...
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...