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You've read what certain writers think of her. But here she is through the eyes of those who know her best — her coworkers. They see her every day — from nine to five. She couldn't fool them! What do they think?
By Vaul Hawkins
Phlegmatic, enthusiastic, helpful, indifferent, shy, cordial, friendly, aloof, a worker, a genius — which is she?
PERHAPS never in screen history will there be another person so richly endowed with the potpourri of talents and contradictory traits that go to make up Greta Garbo. Her co-workers describe her as being phlegmatic, enthusiastic, helpful, indifferent, shy, cordial, friendly, aloof, a worker, a genius.
Ask the people who have appeared in pictures with the glamorous Garbo why she is the Enigma of the Screen and they will tell you there is nothing whatever mysterious about her. But sum up the opinions of these same persons and you will find that she is a greater mystery than ever.
Clarence Brown, for instance, who has directed Greta's best pictures, feels that he knows less about her than anybody.
"Socially, I don't know her at all," he told me. "Only when she invited me to her home to work on a script, did I learn that I had been living directly across the street from her for more than a year !
Will the greatest love team in screen history be revived? There is talk about Garbo and Gilbert playing together again in "The Rise and Fall of Susan Lenox." Here's how they looked when they were making "Flesh and the Devil." Remember?
"On the set, Garbo means simply work to me. She is perfect to direct. She knows her business. She's a great actress. Not strong physically, she works very hard, giving everything she's got, from 9 A.M. to 5 -.30 P. M. She quits promptly then and feels that when her work is done she should be free to go where she pleases and do what she pleases. No studio dinner parties, posing for pictures, meeting people on business, for her.
"I remember the time I received a note from the Swedish ambassador to America," Mr. Brown continued. "His wife wanted to come on the Garbo set and meet her and watch her work. Garbo refused.
" 'Why should I meet her?' she-asked me, 'I don't need her and what need can she have of me?'
"I told her that one never knows what might happen and that some time the ambassador might be in a position to do her a valuable turn.
"Greta merely shrugged. And her reason for declining
the meeting was so logical that I didn't press her further.
" 'People don't expect to meet a bank employee during his business hours merely to watch him count currency, or stand over a writer's shoulder while he works on a manuscript. With me. I feel the same. Why should my work be disturbed or interfered with ?' she asked me.
"The truth is." Mr. Brown confided. "Garbo is shy, almost abnormally so. She is awkward in meeting people. She is so shy that