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...Philadelphia, where Stokowski has his orchestra, friends confidently stated that the marriage would take place in Turin between March 15 and 17. Stoky, they said, had made his plans known in a week's end telephone call to his agent...
...shin bone last week was tiny, historic Ravello. There, in the snug, age-whitened Villa Cimbrone, overlooking the blue Mediterranean from its mountain perch, two people were trying not to notice that all the world was watching them. The man: snowy-haired, limelight-loving, 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski, whose American wife divorced him last December. The woman: Hollywood's No. 1 recluse, Greta Garbo...
While Mrs. Evangeline Brewster Johnson Stokowski was in Reno last fall, Hollywood reported that her fun-loving husband was seen dancing Big Apples with Garbo at Hollywood house parties. But the report had a cooked-up whiff to it. Garbo's Conquest was ready for release, and before such events Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pressagents invariably concoct romantic blurbs. But when last December "Stoky" drank fond farewells with Greta in Manhattan on the eve of her departure for Europe, most people agreed that something more than publicity was in the air. When Conductor Stokowski himself sailed for Italy last month...
...soon as they could get to Ravello from Naples, 23 miles away, correspondents cornered Stokowski in the Hotel Caruso, where he had gone to telephone. Was his companion Greta Garbo? Were they married? Would they be? To all such impertinences, Stokowski firmly refused an answer. "I never talk about personal things," he said. Swedish Author Dr. Axel Munthe was more informative. Greta had called at his Capri home for tea that very afternoon. Accompanying her, he said, had been "a gentleman named Stokowski, whom I do not know, but who looked like a Pole...
Next day Conductor Stokowski received two U. S. newspaper correspondents, but again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject...