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...massive array of promising eyes, perfect legs and pneumatic bosoms, he finds nothing that can quite match his favorites of yesteryear-Theda Bara, the archetype of the Vamp; Gloria Swanson, with her passion for spangles and feathers; Clara Bow, the original "It" girl; Greta Garbo, the incomparable Swede, still a legend after a decade off the screen; Jean Harlow, whose platinum-blonde petulance and provocative lisp still agitate nostalgic memories in thousands of aging males...
...reasons for the marriage-in name only-to come first, so that the pair can pursue their dalliance and yet stay strictly honorable under the technical rules of the cinema code. Irrelevantly, one of the film's best moments comes in a movie-house sequence showing glimpses of Greta Garbo in long's A Woman of Affairs...
Inside Expert John Gunther packed his bags for Hollywood and a new assignment for a hypercritical editor: to try to do a movie script "with a European background" for Greta Garbo who has not found a suitable one since...
...article about Gayelord (molasses & yogurt) Hauser in Cosmopolitan threw a faint ray of light on the dietitian's onetime romance with Greta Garbo. "She was lonely, shy . . ." wrote Ernest Lehman. "Gayelord was gregarious, expansive and as full of self-confidence as he was of vegetable juice ... He supervised her diet, her health, her mode of living. They made garlic juice together...
Hollywood autograph dealers listed some spring bargains. Signatures of Cinemactresses Betty Grable and Virginia Mayo were in stock at 40? each, William S. Hart at 50?. Lily Rons and Buster Keaton were tagged at $2, Joe DiMaggio at $3. Charles Chaplin, Greta Garbo, the late Rudolph Valentino, John Barrymore and Director D. W. Griffith were $10 items; George Gershwin, $15; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, $30; Harry Truman...