The New Movie Magazine (Dec 1929-May 1930)

The New Movie Mazagine make sacrifices. The Gustafssons must have been a loyal and far-sighted family. At the studio Greta, for the first time in her life, was thrown with theatrical people — those fascinating folk she had admired at the stage door when she was a little girl. One of the men with whom she worked was Franz Envall, prominent on the Stockholm stage. Envall is dead now but his daughter is an actress in Sweden. Envall saw that the girl had talent and decided to help her in her ambitions. Through him she was recommended for a scholarship in the Dramatic School of the Royal Theatre in Stockholm. This was a great honor for a young unknown. The tuition was free, but attending the school meant that even Greta's small earnings in the movie studios would have to stop. Again the Gustafssons held a conference. The Dramatic School meant more sacrifices, more hardships. But again the gallant family decided that Greta must go ahead — at any cost. For six months she studied and finally passed the test. Before a jury of about twenty people — critics, theatrical people and instructors — Greta enacted a scene from "Madame Sans Gene" and a bit from a Swedish play by Selma Lagerlov. This was in 1922 — and she was just seventeen. The jury voted her the scholarship and she was accepted. This moment, probably, was the happiest in her life. The rest of her story you know. It has been told many times. How Mauritz Stiller applied at the school for a girl to play a small part in one of his pictures and how Greta went to see him and was accepted immediately. That was in 1924 and Greta was already one of the School's best scholars and so entitled to a small salary of one hundred and fifty krone a month. Greta never forgot her great indebtedness to Mauritz Stiller. It was he who first brought her to the attention of the film world in "The Saga of Gosta Berling." It was he who, when he was offered an engagement in Hollywood, insisted that Greta be included. He loved her and believed in her. He knew that she was an artist. And when he was separated from her, he died in Stockholm of a broken heart. Out in Hollywood they make a mystery of Greta; she is an oddity, because she won't talk about herself, won't splurge and won't live up to the film colony's idea of grandeur. She withstood the tempestuous John Gilbert— and that, too, was incomprehensible to Hollywood. She prefers solitude to company and she remains strangely alien in her simplicity. If she weren't so sincere and if she weren't so disarmingly natural, she would be accused of posing. In Hollywood, in spite of her three years' residence, she is still a foreigner. But in Stockholm, where she is not a "mystery woman," Greta is an actress who has brought glory to her country. Her story, with all its poverty and struggles, is well-known — and no one would dream of holding her humble beginning against her. When she returned to Sweden, last Christmas, she was given a welcome that must have surprised her. Even members of the royal family entertained her. At quiet, unostentatious social gatherings, she was the honored guest of some of the finest men and women of the country. With unobtrusive cordiality, her fellow countrymen and women did all in their power to obliterate Greta's memories of her unhappy girlhood. i ■ ,„„ is* «1* ««» m: ' in 111 111 If I 58 3 | Go to High School at Home You can secure a high school education in your spare time by studying the splendid new courses prepared by the International Correspondence Schools. These courses are equivalent to the courses given in resident high schools. 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