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

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Metro, it seems, wanted Garbo, but they didn't like her terms and Garbo wanted to remain with Metro, provided they could agree. I was told that Metro agreed to the two a year picture schedule but named three hundred and twelve thousand dollars per picture as the limit ; a salary of six hundred thousand odd a year. Her first picture will be a story based on the life of the Swedish Queen Christina. The original is by Garbo's friend, Mrs. Berthold Viertel and Margaret Levino. It's a tale of love overcoming duty. SO Garbo, like Kipling's cat, continues to walk by herself doing pretty much as she pleases, while the applause of her admiring fans gathers volume. Hollvwood does not know what to think o'f Garbo. This strange foreigner who refuses to become a part of the town that has made her independently wealthy and world famous. This girl of humble birth who so royally breaks all of Hollywood's commandments as she serenely marches on to greater heights. Hollywood admits that she has them all licked. All of the world, including Hollywood, looks upon Garbo as a mysterious, strange woman sprung from some unknown land. Assuredly she is strange and certainly she does stand apart from the rest of the world in refusing to allow sudden great wealth and worldwide fame to change her humble habits and simple manner of living. But in her own home and among her own friends Garbo is no more mysterious or strange than you or I. Through her natural shyness and dislike of crowds she unwittingly hit upon an idea of seclusion which has given her more freedom ever accorded any other celebrity and at the same time showered her with the greatest worldwide publicity ever tendered a person in the public eye. Her dislike of meeting the public has developed into a legend that has made it possible for her to turn her back on the world individual] y and collectively and make them like it. She has withdrawn from the public gaze so thoroughly that any least trivial bit of information about her, such as what she eats for breakfast or how often she shampoos her hair is considered news. Many persons swim in the nude in the privacy of their own pool, but the fact that Garbo often takes her plunge in the altogether is worthy of big headline material. Probably every Garbo fan in the country will rush to the library to get de ' Maupassant's, Tolstoy's and Oscar Wilde's writing when they hear that they happen to be the Swedish star's favorite books. And no doubt there will be a revived interest in German and Swedish history when it is learned that Garbo has a collection of these books which she reads over and over. AND most of the readers of Modern Screen will smile when they read Garbo's opinion of Hollywood that she was continually expressing to her housekeepers during the months they managed her home. "Hollywood!" she would wail. "It is nothing but a lot of painted cracker boxes hanging to sun-baked hills. It is the most tiresome place in the world. If I could only get away from it !" And there are many world celebrities who would love to take Garbo's stand of independence in denying interviews and refusing to put themselves on parade at premieres, restaurants and banquets, if they thought they would survive. Garbo continually has to be on her guard or she will be tricked into getting herself into a spot that may upset the tradition she has built about herself. When Dietrich first arrived here. Garbo had a natural curiosity to see if there was any truth to the report that there was a striking resemblance between the German star and herself. "When Garbo was invited to attend a private showing of Dietrich's first Hollywood-made picture at Paramount one evening, she was wild to go," smiled her friend. Wilhelm Sorensen. "It wasn't until I made it plain to her that such a visit would probably be turned into a tremendous publicity stunt that she gave up the idea. "And one day she received word that her admirers in Sweden had planned a great treat for her. Her fans it seemed had clubbed together and raised money to cover a long distance telephone call between Hollywood and Stockholm so that Greta could sit in her California home and talk to her mother as she sat in far away Sweden. Of course it was understood that details of this arrangement would be published. "Garbo replied that when she wanted to talk to her mother she could pay for her own telephone call and then she could be certain that .the world would not be listening in on the conversation." AND the Swedish star hangs on to little souvenirs that remind her of happy times, just like you and I. According to her housekeepers, tucked in among her favorite books were a collection of menus that she had taken from the "Gripsholm," on which she crossed to Sweden when she made her first visit back there after she became famous. And below this shelf of books, on her writing desk stood a little brown Sewed on quickly.^^^J^No pins. No clasps. Made of high grade double silk ribbon in pink, peach, white and black. At your dealer or send 10c. to Straphanger, 79 Madison Ave., N. Y. C. 96