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When a woman admits that she once proposed to a man you know she'll tell you a lot of other things. Greer Garson does
BY RUTH WATERBURY
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SHE came into this world howling like a banshee, this Greer Garson who first stole the hearts of movie-goers with her gentle Mrs. Chips only to recapture them in her recent "Pride And Prejudice"; she who is now the distinctive star chosen by M-G-M to realize their higher hopes.
She came into this world in Ireland's County Down on the twenty-ninth day of September in that blessed lull just before the World War when even in Ireland all people believed that peace and permanent prosperity were guaranteed.
She made her debut into life resting grandly upon an excessively pink satin pillow, a ceremonial pillow that had been in the Garson family for generations for just such occasions. In her case she was supposed to be starting a new line of Garsons, a line of four at least, but instead of being an angel child about this honor she lay there howling, too long of figure and equally scarlet of face and hair. She made, in fact, such an unholy sight, clashing against that poisonous pink that her very young mother, sitting up on a trembling elbow, took one look at her. gasped, "Why, she has red hair," and then flopped down in bitter discouragement, her anguished face turned against the wall.
Today she swears that remark conveyed itself to her hour-old consciousness: for as she grew up a busy, serious and lonely little girl among the hedgi I Ireland, she loathed
her hair and automatically hated anybody who nicknamed her "Ginas every stranger was wont to do.
The family searched violently back into both lines of ancestry to justify her coloring. They couldn't reach a final conclusion as to which line of rs thai hair could be traced: to Eric the Red on her father, George G son's side, or to tlie brigand Rob Roy McGregor (Roj means "red" m Scottish) on her mothi
Either way. she came from fighti from way back, and a good thing that
was. too, or she would not have survived at all. Because she was. as fate had it. to he die only Garson child, her father dying suddenly when she was less than four months old and
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