Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

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A GENTLE FLUSH The Man in Garbo's Past WATER Americas Laxative Mineral Wafer Continued from page twenty-three but who is her impassioned director when the cameras turn over on the stages of the studio. It is a triangle that should stir the fiction experts to rhapsodizing in prose. What Manner Of Man is this who knew his Garbo when, as the saying goes? Well, Carl Brisson is tall, with a prizefighter's shoulders. And, frankly, deservedly so. For Brisson, as Carl Petersen, his real name, was a prizefighter of note in Denmark. In fact, an amateur welterweight champion at that. I know. I saw the medal he got for it. He's a nondescript blond, with Nordic blue eyes. Slim-waisted. A pair of deep dimples that will have all the women gaga. A smile that's always happy; plus a keen assurance and an understanding of the difficulties of life. His one passion is prize-fighting. His one enthusiasm (other than Garbo, of course), is Jack Dempsey. He spoke without reservation. He told of his friendship for Jimmy Walker, the mayor who meant New York as much as New York meant him. I remarked before that Brisson, as Carl Petersen, was a prizefighter. This was before he took his mother's name and decided to chance the stage. And Brisson gets a real kick out of recalling those days of sock-and-take-it. "You mention to me that life has its ups and downs," he said to me. "And I know even better than you think. It wasn't always like this (waving his arm around his palatial home). Sometimes it was hard, very hard. "I can remember one time when I was just a youngster, trying so hard to be a great prizefighter. I had gone to a town some forty miles away from Copenhagen for a fight. And, after the fight, I wanted to get home. But all I had was four marks — not enough fare. So what could I do? "Well, I passed a music store and there I saw a piano key, you know, the key piano-tuners use to tune pianos. It was priced four marks. I took a chance. I bought the key. "And then I went from public house to public house, you know, saloons, asking to tune pianos. Finally, I made twelve marks, enough money for fare to Copenhagen and to get something to eat. I don't know what the people who hired me thought, after I got through tuning their pianos. "You see, I had never tuned a piano in my life before — and I haven't since." He Knows Many more stories like that. They all have the ring of truth. For Brisson has worked hard to achieve what measure of fame the gods have been kind enough to hand him. But his greatest pride is in the success achieved by Greta Garbo. Mention Greta Garbo to Brisson and you find a man who is a fan, an admirer and appreciative student of the complexities that have kept this luminous figure of the shadow world so consistently in the headlines ever since she first stirred an American movie-going public to a frenzy of enthusiasm. "I have known Greta ever since she was so high," said Brisson, suiting the action to the word. "She would stare at me, with her beautiful eyes, as I acted on the stage of the Academy. "For, to Greta, I was a personage. After all, to her, I represented success. I already had achieved a certain following. And she— well she was beginning and so anxious to learn, so anxious to know all about acting. "I can recall how she would sit there, just watching, watching. She then was Greta Gustaffson, an ambitious youngster who knew that the spark of genius burned within her. "And somehow that spark of genius stirred Mauritz Stiller. I had persuaded him to talk to Greta and he did. "Stiller was going to make Gosta Berling at that time. He asked me to be the leading man. And he planned to have Greta play a part in the picture. He wanted me for the title role. I told him I couldn't because I had signed to go to London to appear on the stage there. "I offered my London manager any sum to be released from the contract. I was willing to make all sorts of concessions. I wanted so much to play the role and to play with Greta. But I couldn't get away — and Lars Hansen got the part. The rest is history. — Freulich Lovely Jacqueline Wells finds one black cat that offers no menace but she finds many thrills and countless perils in Universal's Black Cat in which she plays the feminine lead. Karloff and Beta Lugosi are featured HOLLYWOOD