Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-12
BY RILLA PAGE PALMBORG.
CHAPTER XXI.


Since Greta Carlo had started to be
seen in public with Wilhelm Sorensen
and jacques Feyder the motion picture
colony believed she was coming out OF
her long retirement.
Several celebrities sent her invitations
to dinner parties. Among them was
an invitation to Pickfair, to banquet
Mary Pickford was giving for her house
guest, Lady Mountbatten.
But Carlo was not accepting any IN
vitations outside Of her own little circle:
She sent regrets. Then MISS PIckloro
wrote her a four-page letter explaining
that Lady Mountbatten was very anX-
ious to meet the Swedish star.
1T will be the same old thing" Carlo
said to one of her friends. Strangers
staring ct me and talking about me.
! will be expected to dance, and I de-
spise dancing I can't do it. And
again she sent her regrets.
But titled ladies. it seems. expect to
meet those they want to know. few
days later, while Carlo was working
on the set at the studio, word was sent
back that Lady Mountbatten was visit
ing the lot and that she would like to
meet Miss Carlo.
Won Prize After Death.
Carlo has issued an ultimatum that
day she made no exception Lady
Mountbatten returned to England with
out meeting Carlo.
Carlo never talks much about Maui
ritz Stiller. whose protegee ana pupil
she was She feels he would have made
great pictures in Hollywood had he
been willing to learn English and to be
patient with the problems that all
foreigners have to contend with IN
strange country.
It was a great disappointment to
him to think that the Americans did
not consider his work fine. He did
not live to know that his picture,
Hotel Imperial" won the prize as the
second best picture of the year The
money that went with the prize was
paid to his estate after his death.
After the estate was settled Carlo
received letter saying she might
choose something of Stiller's to re-
member him by. She asked for piece
of furniture in his apartment in Stock
holm Perhaps it was the little chair
she sat on the day when shaking with
fright, she waited in the office in his
home to ask him for a part in Costa
Behring'S Saga"
Would Like Jeanne dare"
wilhelm Sorensen says the one pic
ture Carlo now would like to make
more than any other is Jeanne dare"
She is tired of making pictures she
does not want to do. She is a rich
woman. She has all the fame and
glory she wants.
CARLOS friends say she has always
1onged to fulfill a great desire to go
upon the stage-the longing that was
interrupted when she left the Royal
Dramatic School in Stockholm to be-
come the protegee of Stiller She
would undoubtedly be a sensation on
the stage, her friends believe.
More has been written about Greta
Carlo than about the crowned heads
of her native land. More homage and
alteration have been laid at her feet
than any reigning Queen of Sweden
has received.
Her weekly salary of $7,5Oo-more
than $1,000 a day-stacks up hand
somely with royal incomes.
What did that strange, awkward,
unknown, poor little Greta Gustafsson
have that in five short years has made
her the famous, rich, alluring Greta
Carlo of today?
Was it ambition, faith in herself,
courage, divine flame?
The world sees this strange, battling
exotic girl fit across the screen por
traying SenSuouS, mysterious siren
She fits each role SO perfectly that to
the public Greta Carlo has become
the sensuous, mysterious siren They
cannot imagine her a girl who in real
1ty prefers fresh air and sunlight to
the perfumed boudoirs she lives in on
the screen
Talks of Dream Home"
dreta often talks about her dream
home.
An hours. ride out of Stockholm,
where an arm of the ocean cuts into
the mainland, is a Summer resort
known as Marlen. Like floating palaces
tiny islands dot the surface of the blue
water. Along the rocky shore and on
these islands cling the beautiful Sum-
mer homes of the rich folk OF Sweden