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Plioto by Ball
The many-sided Jetta Goudal is the subject of rumors
which evoke only a smile from her, although one of them
hints of a role in a dramatic chapter of the World War.
ASK the cold Sphinx whence it came. Put question after question before it, and it will merely stare back at you with its inscrutable countenance. Never can you see behind its eyes. Go wild with rage, for all it cares, when you fail to get an answer. It should worry. It is doing very well. The Sphinx is world famous.
So are two women and a man in Hollywood who possess the same distracting, enigmatic qualities. Unknown is the middle name of Jetta Goudal, Greta Garbo, and Ronald Colman.
Goudal has attracted attention, because of the aura of bafflement she carries about with her. There is no stronger magnet to draw the human mind than mystery. Perhaps Jetta realizes this.
She flashed to success, as most people know, some years ago, in "The Bright Shawl," in which she played the role of a Eurasian spy.
Who was she? Where did she come from? People asked, but failed to get an answer. Rumor said her mother was French, her father Chinese. Other rumors of an exotic nature spread about.
Ask for verification of these rumors and Goudal will look half smiling at you, just like the Sphinx. She makes
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Questions directed to Jetta Goudal, Greta Garbo.
same results as efforts to draw the mysterious
chatter, so far as their inner selves and
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you both believe and disbelieve; she suggests and denies, which usually causes one's ideas to go this way and that.
Versailles, we are informed, is her birthplace.
A sphinx from Versailles. Why not ?
Mention of Versailles recalls Vincennes. And Vincennes conjures up visions of Matahari, the half-caste Greta Garbo quietly ob ■ Javanese dancer of exotic
serves Hollywood through half-closed eyes, suggesting disturbances that at once charm and mystify the screen colony.
Photo by Louise
memory. Her real name was Margaret Zelle. Her father was a Dutch sea captain. During the war Matahari was a notorious spy for Germany, belonging to the Wilhclmstrasse. She was executed, presumably, by the French in 1916.
Matahari was Actionized after her announced death, by several novelists. Ibahez portrayed her in "Mare Nostrum." Elinor Glyn forgot "It" for a moment and declaimed, "Thus perish all spies !" when she had her executed, in "The Price of Things." A few French writers dramatized Matahari in their novels, "La Chevre aux Pieds d'Or" being the most famous.
Whether Jetta Goudal suggested "The Goat With the Golden Feet." when she appeared on the stage in New York, cannot be said. All the same, the book made a splendid film for her, as some profess to believe that she is Matahari herself. Secrets were supposed to have been let out. Those who know say this.
Was it true that the French government freed Matahari in return for some very important secrets, then gave out the report that she had been executed? Was it true that they let her escape to Holland, with a stern command never to set foot in France again? Was it likewise true that Jetta Goudal was really that