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With the identity of Ravello's Donna Misteriosa (Mysterious Lady) established, the curious throngs around the villa grew larger. When they stopped a village cobbler to get a good look at a size 7½ Garbo shoe, Garbo was angered. That evening, in a voice loud enough to be heard well beyond the villa walls, she ordered the servants to have a doctor handy-"in case anyone is hurt...
...blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
While Mrs. Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski was in Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month...
Fortnight ago their vigilance was rewarded. Stoky rented Ravello's Villa Cimbrone for a month, and less than a week later he was joined by stately, bobbed-haired Greta Louvisa Gustafsson (Greta Garbo's real name). Soon romantic villagers were clacking of arm-in-arm walks in twilight, unabashed embraces...
...soon as they could get to Ravello from Naples, 23 miles away, correspondents cornered Stokowski in the Hotel Caruso, where he had gone to telephone. Was his companion Greta Garbo? Were they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...