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The Screen's Newest Meteor Is a Moody Daughter of Sweden
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e has the longest lashes in the world !" sighs an enamoured youth.)
Seafaring Family
Che does not come of a theatrical family. Indeed, so far as Greta know-. not one of the Garbos before her ever trod the boards on any stage. They were seafaring men, who must, like Greta, have loved "the feel of the wind in their hair."
Greta went to dramatic school in her native city of Stockholm. Why? She cannot tell you, altho she has learned much English since that fatal day when she appeared on the set of "The Torrent" with her first American word — and so proud of it — ''Hell.'"
The dramatic school, like all such schools in Sweden, put on an Ibsen play. Greta was cast in a small role. W hile she waited in the wings for her cue, she could see a shadow on the wall back of the boxes. It looked like the shadow of a giant.
"That's Mauritz Stiller !" one of the other players hissed in her ear.
But Greta thought mure of what she would do on the stage than of those who might be watching her. She gave all she had to give. The tall man standing in the door
Ruth Harriet l.nuise
Greta Garbo has corn-colored hair and somber blue eyes. She is naive, oblivious yet of her success. And she is not yet twenty
of the box was forgotten. . . . Until the next day when Greta Garbo was summoned to his office.
In Swedish Films
Drkskntly the school was electrified at the announcement that Mauritz Stiller — the great Mauritz Stiller — had made little Greta Garbo the ingenue lead in "Gdsta Borling's Saga."
So young she is — not twenty — half-woman, half-child. Naive. Oblivious of the sensation of her passing. Greta alone fails to note that most of the men on the lot have found something to do on Stage One when Greta is called there, and that they stay there long after that something is done.
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