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Each character, Andrew, Greta, Sandy, and the others, has his goal, his "light burning" often in the shadowy realms of imagination. It is because the author does not crystallize the symbolical meaning, the somewhat ethereal quality of his work, that it is made the more effective. Constantly the reader's imagination is invited to travel along roads only vaguely marked out by the author...
Fabulous, enigmatic Cinemactress Greta Garbo (Gustaffson) began a vacation journey back to her native Sweden and the castle she bought from Ivar Kreuger's estate. In her old limousine she drove from Hollywood to Pasadena, where she hid from prying eyes in a bush with four bodyguards before making a spectacular dash for the Santa Fe train. Outside Chicago, she alighted in the railroad yards, set police and railroad men in a dither getting her a cab. Her next appearance was at Chicago's Union Station where she arrived ten minutes before train time, peeked around a corner...
...November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston. It did not come off until the Shuberts got Arthur Goodrich (Richelieu) to do a third adaptation and hired a sad little red-headed woman named Greta Maren for the chief role. Up in Manhattan last week went another chorus of critical boos...
Because the cinema has so frequently used inapposite happy endings for purely commercial reasons, there is a tendency to regard as artistically courageous any film in which the heroine breaks her neck. Also, since Anna Sten has been introduced to the U. S. public as a glamorous composite of Greta Garbo and Mae West, a picture in which her physical charms are concealed by a mackinaw and a woolen stocking-cap obviously constitutes a daring innovation. The merits of The Wedding Night are more substantial than criticisms which dwell on these superficial factors may lead cinemaddicts to suppose. A sober...
...Greta's willing shoulder Andrew got his first good sleep in months...