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...Mata Hari," which was reviewed in the CRIMSON on January 7, is now the major attraction at the University Theatre. It has the double disadvantage of being a story enshrouded in legend of which everyone knows something, and of following the similar movie, 'Dishonored." Without Greta Garbo as the famous dancer in the espionage service of the Central Powers, the movie would be utterly unsuccessful, so weak is the plot...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/1/1932 | See Source »

...mystery play simply means predicament. The predicament herein set forth is that of an elderly gentleman (Lionel At-will) who tries to save his son from the consequences of murder by confessing to the crime himself. The victim in the case is the son's handsome blonde mistress (Greta Nissen). In court, circumstantial evidence has nearly convicted the father when a new witness appears. This is a mild mannered Cockney whose presence at the scene of the killing no one had suspected. His testimony clears father and son and indicates that the taking off of Miss Nissen was less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...Woman Commands (RKO-Pathe). Apollonia Chalupez (Pola Negri) has a warm soft voice and an accent which, although she is a Polish gypsy, makes her sound almost exactly like Greta Garbo. This curious little picture?a combination of comedy, romance, mid-European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...been entertaining to wonder whether the next young woman to appear under the auspices of Lucky Strike or Chesterfield on the bill-boards of the land would be a Greta Garbo or a Clara Bow type. The country may have benefited by the redistribution of funds produced by wagers, won and lost, on the next sport to be glorified by the versatile female athlete who posed for a gasoline company as "Power," "Speed," and "Balance," in successive months. Undoubtedly bill-board advertisements, like traveling salesmen and muddy weather, being unpredictable, have added glamor to life, and being thoroughly vexing, strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARRING BILL-BOARDS | 2/4/1932 | See Source »

...begins with Greta Garbo dancing, very badly indeed, in leggings and some thing that looks like a pillow on her wiggling rear. The young aviator who has flown to Paris with despatches from Russia sees her, meets her, spends a late evening in her company. The next night he is ordered to return to Russia but by this time Mata Hari finds it expedient to steal some papers from him. To do so, she passes small hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

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