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...strikingly powerful for a Wagnerian's. It was only a medium-sized voice when on her eighth birthday she sang for the Queen of Sweden, got five crowns because she had "gold in her throat." She spent the five crowns on cakes and milk for her school friends. In Stockholm's singing academy she learned German (she calls it Yarman) and the German operas. She acquired superstitions. The right foot must come out of bed first in the morning, the right stocking go on first. If a costume is so designed that the left arm must go in first, even...
...beady eyes of the Japanese popped with disgust. Astonished Norwegians mopped their faces and unbuttoned their sweaters, too polite to mention the weather. The Swedes, disconsolate, nibbled brown beans, salt herring, oatmeal and knackebrod which they had carried all the way from Stockholm. An unprecedented thaw at Lake Placid, N. Y., had spoiled the ice, melted the snow, made practice for the Olympic Games, which begin Feb. 4, impossible. Undiscouraged by this dismal turn of events, the Olympic Committee announced the full schedule of events...
...Chatterton. It is now clear that, in a sense, she has no rivals. The fact that she has made comparatively few pictures for the last two years has helped her to retain an independent popularity, to thrive on the flattery of imitation. Once a soaper of chins in a Stockholm barbershop, she has already selected the island near Stockholm where she will live when retired from cinemacting. Her contract expires next year and Cinemactress Garbo, whose reluctance to become a member of Hollywood "society" baffles Hollywood, has not yet revealed her plans...
Other phase of Milles is jolly, lighthearted, northern Gothic. A good illustration was erected last year on the Stockholm waterfront. Massive, of polished rose granite, it shows little influence on Milles by his teacher Rodin. Two figures, a merman and his mermaid, intertwine in funny fat folds. She is doting; he, looking like the pneumatic Michelin Tire man ("Bibendum"), is highly amused...
...sculpture of heroic size. He has prospered; his house is one of Sweden's showplaces. His wife is an Austrian who paints. They like to travel, particularly in the U. S. where they have many a friend and admirer. He teaches part of the year at Stockholm's Royal Akademie, goes to see Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf with whom he is intimate...