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...among the sitters. Outstanding was a tight, minutely painted portrait of Merle Oberon by famed Engraver Gerald Brockhurst for which Miss Oberon paid ?2,000 (see cut). More pleasing to the British public was toothsome Jessie Matthews in oils by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (see cut). Also in evidence was Greta Garbo as Anna Karenina...
...came to Taormina from Syracuse in the same compartment with a Sicilian family consisting of the father with a long mustache, the mother holding a baby, and a daughter looking like a brunette version of Greta Garbo and eating salami. My time was spent between looking for Mt. Etna and smelling the salami. Before the journey was over, however, I was eating salami, holding the baby, and listening to an Italian, French, handlanguage version of the last eruption of Mt. Etna...
Robert Taylor no longer loves Greta Garbo; it is Jean Harlow now. The two of them are quite unsentimental about it, and do their best to amuse us for an hour and a half or so, in "Personal Property". But their best is not good enough. They are equipped with the undistinguished material of the H. M. Harwood stage piece "Man in Possession". It gives them little to go on, and they get even by giving it little in return. It is all about a black sheep, lovable as all black sheep are, who pursues his nincompoop brother's fiancee...
...Sonja as Greta Mueller is the daughter of the keeper of a small Swiss chalet. Her father, accused of professionalism after winning the 1908 Olympics, has trained his daughter for twelve years in the hope that she might win the award which he "won and lost...
Sonja is discovered by small-time theatrical producer, Adolf Menjou, who sees a vision of "dancing on ice", one hundred skaters, a symphony, orchestra, Madison Square Garden, spangles, and spotlights and Greta of course. Induced to be featured with his troupe. Greta is nearly disqualified in the games because of this. Don Ameche, a reporter for the Paris Gazzette saves the day, and provides the love interest with old fashioned restraint...