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...Garbo's Feet Sirs: Why is there such a to-do about the size of Greta Garbo's feet (TIME, June...
Fabulous, enigmatic Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner...
...cinema has so frequently used inapposite happy endings for purely commercial reasons, there is a tendency to regard as artistically courageous any film in which the heroine breaks her neck. Also, since Anna Sten has been introduced to the U. S. public as a glamorous composite of Greta Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober, admirably realistic...
...Greta Garbo...
...takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch" the German slang for junk, which Lehmann uses to describe everything which is artistically second-rate...