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...story has it that, upon seeing the Beast turn into the affable, if somewhat bland, prince (played again by Marais), Greta Garbo exclaimed, "Give me back my Beast!" It is true that the wholesome prince is no compensation for the loss of the Beast, and Marais looks diminished without the leonine make-up and trailing cloak. Fortunately, this section of the film doesn't last too long...
...without the scaffolding of tragedy, his stagecraft was exposed as ramshackle, his creatures as puppets. Though producers drag Anna Christie out of the closet every decade or so (for Ingrid Bergman, Celeste Holm, Liv Ullmann), they can't shake the mothballs from it. "Isn't it terrible?" said Greta Garbo, who toiled nobly in a 1930 film version. "Who ever saw Swedes act like that...
...Freshman Greta Steffenson turned in the gutsiest performance of the night, taking second place in the 200-yard freestyle and third in the 500 and 1000-yard freestyles...
...Greta swam tough as nails," Assistant Coach Stacy Duncan said...
Freshmen Caroline Miller (in the butterfly), Alexa Zesgter (freestyle and backstroke) and Greta Steffenson (freestyle distance) are also expected to excel...