Screenland (Nov 1925–Apr 1926)

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€[ This slim 7<[orse maiden disproves the old legend that only Latins have temperament. Through her the Tsiordics come into their own. OMAN IRE and CE Q[ Greta Garbo's moods are always intense — and what a genius she she has for living them out to the last thrill. 44 Bj/K atherine A Ibert reta Garbo comes from the land of those intense, emotional women whom Ibsen put into his plays. She's a sister of Nora of A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler and all the other splendid creatures of fire and ice whom the genius of the famous Norse dramatist has made familiar. For Greta has temperament — the genuine article — that never leaves her in the same mood for two hours in suecession. She has been in America only a few months — not long enough to learn that our critics take temperament with the well-known grain of salt. It's real with her. So, from happiness to unhappiness, from cheerfulness to gloom, from a laughing, normal girl thrilled by her first sight of a new country to the woman who, upon the screen, is so convincingly swept through every stage of passion, goes Greta Garbo — taking her audiences with her. Where this talent comes from, no one knows. Her parents were not professional people, and she has never been on the stage. She studied in a dramatic school in Stockholm for a short time and was discovered there by Mauritz, Stiller, one of the directors for the Swedish Film Industry. In her first picture, "Gosta Berling", she played the leading role. She worked in Sweden and made one picture in Germany for UFA before her long term contract with the M.G.M. was signed. TFhe most amazing thing about Greta Garbo is her age. On the screen — we saw the preview of "Ibanez Torrent", her first American picture, the other night — she is an emotional actress of the^ highest calibre. She is a vital person with the sophisticatiorref the Sphinx, the power and fire of woman incarnate. Her body is sinuous and pantherlike. There is a depth to her personality. And she is twenty years old! No, I didn't believe it, either, (Continued on bage 95) Ti