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...Greta Garbo sat hidden behind a screen in a ballroom of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel last week to hear her good friend Bengamin Gayelord Hauser lecture to a roomful of A.W.V.S. socialites...
...Americans, to be broadcast by NBC on Sunday afternoons at 4:30. For the first in the series, produced last Sunday, voluble, begoggled, little Arch Oboler went to Manhattan with fair Olivia de Havilland, the leading lady. Although protesting that he was being made a fall guy in the Garbo matter, Arch was meditative about the state of his radio...
There had been a mix-up the week before when Greta Garbo, whom Oboler thought he had bagged for his March of Dimes program (TIME, Jan. 26), turned out to be uninformed of the fact, and failed to make her advertised radio debut. Garbo partisans and Oboler resenters-two large classes-waxed bitter about "high-pressuring" and "committing big names in advance of their consent." Others merely observed that Mr. Oboler had been a little too busy for his own good...
...Garbo (Red, Blue, CBS, MBS Sat. Jan. 24, 11:15 p.m. E.S.T.) in her radio premiere, on March of Dimes of the Air, an hour show put on by Hollywood's best show people...
This is M.G.M.'s idea of modernizing Garbo. Perhaps M.G.M. thought that, because Garbo played a captivating brand of comedy in Ninotchka two years ago, she ought to go on to slapstick. But Ninotchka was played against a dramatic background. Two-Faced Woman is neither dramatic nor funny (except for some hilarious stunt-skiing sequences); it is a trick played on a beautiful, shy, profoundly feminine actress...