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...Story of Louis Pastcur" offset by Claudett Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in "She Married Her Boss." Tomorrow, however, they are abandoning the old name of "review day" in favor of "Romance Day," bringing to the screen Stokowski in "100 Men and a Girl" and Garbo in "Anna Karenina." This idylic couple, last heard from on the Isle of Capri, got widely diverging reactions from the local public. The big Swede left Harvard hearts cold, but the stoical Stokowski received such an overwhelming Radcliffe vote that the Deanna Durbin musical came in by a landslide. On Friday Mr. Deeds and Theodora...
...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...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake...
Broadway Melody of 1936 9) Roberta 10) Anna Karenina...
...admirers of Tolstoi, then, "Anna Karenina" is sadly disappointing. Admires of Garbo will feel differently. She is definitely Garbo throughout, not Anna, but nevertheless gives a convincing performance. (This is a trick common among Hollywood stars who are personalities, not necessarily actresses.) The picture as a whole, in fact, is not too unsatisfactory when considered merely as a picture, not as the translation of a novel; it is good Hollywood romance...