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...Angeles last week, dressed as if for mourning in black gown, black coat and dotted veil, Swedish Immigrant Greta Garbo, 45, finally got around to taking her final oath as a U.S. citizen. Before scurrying back to privacy, she obliged newsmen with one hurried pose and one restrained quote: "I am glad to become a citizen...
...flying-finger technique. But none has ever surpassed his showmanship. "When he digs into a tune," one admirer puts it, "he becomes as passionate as a sailor on his first night ashore." Says Erskine Johnson, Hollywood columnist: "He looks down his accordion the way Gilbert used to look down Garbo...
...wrote she was a sad little child, so I painted her that way. Then somebody said, 'Why don't you paint Einstein with his little violin?', and that was enough. Churchill was obvious. He said himself that every baby in the United Kingdom looked like him. Garbo I imagined as a pale green little girlbeautiful always, but I'm sure she was green as a frog. I'd seen so many photographs of the Duke of Windsor, I did not have to look at more, but I did look at the Wally Simpson...
Baseball's Leo ("The Lip") Durocher gave Columnist Earl Wilson a dead-end kid's impression of what it is like to share a transcontinental plane seat with Greta Garbo: "She sits next to me and I notice that she's so nervous that her hand is shaking on the arm of the seat... It was her first trip ... I guess she'd never had any bum talk to her before like I did. She got calm . . . That Greta's wonderful. When you see her up close, she's really got a beautiful kisser...
...Winthrop House film series started Tuesday night. There are six more films in the series yet to come; a pair of seats for the whole series costs $2.80. The movies are excellent, with future programs ranging from "The Great Train Robbery" to "Camille," from Greta Garbo to Douglas Fairbanks...