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Now that Garbo is definitely established as one of the leading talkie stars, her second picture is being awaited with as much suspense as that which greeted Anna Christie, Romance is the present title, and it is taken from a stage play of some years ago. Garbo plays an Italian actress and the period of the play is the nineteenth century. A new departure for Greta.
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How di£Ferent, the present Greta, from . this rather naive, decidedly undeveloped young lady who sailed into New York harbor a few short years ago!
CAESAR'S crossed the Rubicon! Alexander's severed the Gordian Knot! Gridley has fired! The Sphinx speaks! Greta Garbo has made a talkie. And the great myth of the movies — the legend of Hollywood — has received another tremendous impetus that will mean millions to M-G-M and its sequestered
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The tumultuous words have beflf^ttered — "Gimme a vhiskey wit yingerale on de side; an' don'd be stingy, baby" — and another Bernhardt has been born. That is, according to director Clarence Brown. List to the voice of the Oracle:
Tconsider Greta Garbo one of the three great actresses the world has known. Bernhardt, Duse, and now Garbo!"
Shades of Rachel — shades of all that glamorous pageant of memory-enthralling thespians — forgive him for he knows not what he says!
Or at any rate, he's a nice guy greatly interested in automobiles, trying to get along in the world, .succeeding rather well, and breaking down like this only because he's Greta's director and wants to be nice.
Greta has spoken the hackneyed, time-worn lines of 'Gene O'Neill's drama. So what?
Everyone knew she could talk. No one suspected of her being dumb. Hollywood is accustomed to that husky, guttural voice intoning: "Aye tank aye go home," as Greta crowds big feet into small shoes and walks out on the party not in the least disturbed at leaving flat.
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