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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...
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...
...Faced Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a practically perfect example of how wrong Hollywood can be when it gets off the beam. A slapsticky remake of a 1925 farce (Her Sister from Paris, with Constance Talmadge), it is an absurd vehicle for Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil and the screen's best tragedienne. Its embarrassing effect is not unlike seeing Sarah Bernhardt swatted with a bladder. It is almost as shocking as seeing your mother drunk...
Catholics struck hard last week at Greta Garbo's new film, Two-Faced Woman.* The Legion of Decency condemned it as "immoral and indecent," and Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman of New York had his pastors tell their Sunday congregations that it is "an occasion of sin and . . .dangerous to public morals." Other bishops followed suit, and censors in strongly Catholic Boston and Providence banned...
Marquis Henri de la Falaise de la Coudraye ignored ex-wives Gloria Swanson, Constance Bennett when he answered an inquiring reporter's query: With what five women would he like to retire from business? His five: Ina Claire, Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Clare Boothe, Elsa Maxwell, Greta Garbo...