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...Mata Hari (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the legends about Mata Hari, a Parisian cabaret dancer who was executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good...
...some thing that looks like a pillow on her wiggling rear. The young aviator who has flown to Paris with despatches from Russia sees her, meets her, spends a late evening in her company. The next night he is ordered to return to Russia but by this time Mata Hari finds it expedient to steal some papers from him. To do so, she passes small hours at his quarters, makes him blow out a holy candle burning under the ikon of a madonna. The aviator finally starts back for Russia, but his plane crashes. Miss Garbo, like all female spies...
...must inevitably arrive at a harsh and gloomy finish. Always there seems to be that roll of drums; the bleak yard where executions take place. Even the glamorous and passionate spoken Greta Garbo is unable to lend the happy tinge of romance and action to the story of "Mata Hari" now showing at Loew's State Theatre. Few of us will deny the remarkable charm of this great Swedish actress, but the producers of her films are strangely inept...
Following with naive exactitude the plot of Marlene Dietrich's "Dishonored", "Mata Hari" tells the story of the fascinating secret agent of the Central Powers who is employed to extract priceless secrets from allied officers but eventually sacrifices honor and country for love. Afterwards comes the scene in the sombre prison. As in "Dishonored", the heroine in one sequence seats herself at the piano, plays stirring tunes while her lover watches. Ramon Navarro is the young officer who falls victim...
...Other noteworthy 1931 births: to onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico (son, premature); Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (daughter); William Henry Vanderbilt (twins, forecast by X-ray); Emperor Hirohito of Japan (daughter); Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir (son, winning him a large wager...