Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues))

Page scan 000478 from Modern Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Modern Screen
Date:
Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 (assorted issues)
Publisher:
Syndicate Publishing Company
Volume:
Modern Screen (Dec 1931 - Nov 1932 assorted issues)
Leaf #:
000478
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 23, 2024
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Photograph by Russell Ball GRETA'S THWARTED AMBITION By LILLIAN SHIRLEY For years Greta Ni'ssen worked to perfect herself in one of the higher arts. All, apparently, to no avail HE bright and golden things of life — success, beauty, money, position, adulation — don't always bring happiness; not even in Hollywood, the secret Mecca of Everywoman's desire. An old story, eh? Well, perhaps so, but there is Greta Nissen — A born dancer, trained to it from the age of six, the dance fills Greta's soul, is close to being her religion, and the Fates have turned her into an actress with little or no opportunity to do the thing she fought and suffered to acquire. If that be tragedy, there it is. That's why 78 she feels that somehow life has tricked her. That's why she chafes, rebels beneath her calm. That's why this lovely Norwegian of the deep blue eyes, the pale gold hair, the skin of the texture of fine-spun silk, carries with her the undercurrent of frustration that tinges all she does. Not that she is grieving, sorrowful, gloomy, uninterested or lacking in her work. She's far from that with all her vivid energy, charm, gaiety and verve — but one can't be with her ten minutes without discovering the tiny canker at the core of her success. "Why do you look at me — so?" she asked suddenly,