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Here she is — Queen Garbo shaking hands with the first American actor who helped her. Now she's returning the favor, with ample interest
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WHO says that royalty knows no gratitude — or that Garbo is an aloof, mysterious embodiment of perfect screen art, without inner warmth of human feeling? Listen. Eight years ago last July, a scared, none-too-well-dressed dish girl landed in New York, in tow of the great Swedish director, Mauri!/ Stiller. Broughl because Miller insisted she must come if he did -and ignored as merely part of the price for getting him.
The studio, not much interested, used her in '"The Torrent." But no prairies were set afire; the lonely visitor, at whose English people smiled, knew discouragement to its bitter full. Meanwhile a comparatively new star — an amazingly bright one — was blazing in the movieland firmament. Jack Gilbert, no less, movie idol of nearly every woman
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in one of the most amazing "turnabouts" of picture history
The Swedish girl had done well in "The Torrent" and in her next, "The Temptress Gilbert was popular enough to "carry" anyone, however little her name might mean. Why not use her in his new "Flesh and the Devil?
Not an unusual decision in movie casting — but what Gilbert did icas unusual.
Most "kings" would have pouted — if indeed they didn't roar to high heaven — over being given "untried" support.
Gilbert made his supporting lady feel welcome and appreciated as a fellow artist. Garbo speaks of it yet.
More than that: Garbo could have as much publicity as her work might command. No trying to grab it all for himself.
No need to tell you the result — how everyone woke almost overnight to hail a new queen of the cinema. Garbo's star shot up to the heights. The acid test of the talkies only made it twinkle the brighter.
Meanwhile, poor Jack! Faced with talkies, thought all he needed to do was talk. The voice that sounded a bit creaky, practically
FINE years pass — years that Gilbert played in roles which meant less and less — unable to live down that unfortunate talkie debut.
Then Garbo's trip to Sweden — her return to play ( Christina. The world rejoiced — and nobody thought of Jack. Nobody, that is. except Garbo.
Arrived in Hollywood, she went over the studio's plans for her film, pronounced everything satisfactory. But — She'd prefer Jack Gilbert in the romantic male lead. And Jack will do the lead, in place of the man previously selected. So now who will say that _, royalty knows no gratitude or that
// iS t O V O F' S Garbo lacks warm human feeling?