The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-15
Coolidge, Tunney--- "THEY QUIT WHILE THEY HAD IT'
 What WW Garbo Do?
Few Abandon Fame With
 Fortune
tBy NEA scrvice)

If Greta Garbo walks out on the largest feminine salary contract in Hollywood and quits the movies at the top of her profession, she will join a select, small circle of front rank quitters who took their fame and their fortunes into pleas ant retirement.
 It is natural for the public to cock a suspicious eye at tall tales from fabulous filmland. But this time 1t seems as though Greta's "I think I go back home" will take permanent rank with Calvin Cool idge's T do not choose to run"
 There are mighty few in the rec ords of all professions who have had the courage and the convic- ton to quit at the crest of success.
 Gene Tunney, the literary pugi- list, was one. He walked out on the heavyweight championship of the world with a million dollars in his pants pocket.
 Coolidge turned down another chance at the presidency to be- come the sage of Northampton at a dollar word.
 Marion Tailey, the Kansas song bird,. rang down the curtain on a Metropolitan opera career while still singing high C on the salary scale. Her farm lands to-day are adding to the nations wheat sur plus.
 Bobby Jones abandoned a hat full of international golfing titles to become a professional. He is the only one in the retirement class who quit a career to make more money.
 The most spectacular retire. ment of them all was perbetrated by the late John w. .(Betcha- -a- Million) Gates. At the turn of the century he had run q few hundred dollars up one hundred millions and walked out of New York at the height of his speculative ca- reer.
 It is legend that J. P. Morgan exiled Gates. At any rate "Betcha- a-Million' retired to Port Arthur, Texas, where he founded the larg- est independent oil company in the country during his spare time. They say that Greta wants to go back home to star in Hamlet under a European director. Charlie Chaplin always had wanted to be filmed as the Prince of Denmark.
 Chaplin wants chance to show his real dramatic talent as q relief from comedy. Greta wants to highlight her career with role that does not depend on the in- effable lure of her distinctive beauty. She has made few friends. She has been admirably handled by her press representatives. An aura of mysticism surrounds her. Yet shc is human enough to have la bored like slave to perfect her part in "Grand Hotel."
 The Jealousy with which she strove for her laurels against the whirlwind charm of Joan Craw- ford disclosed Greta Garbo hu- man enough to recognize the swift insecurity of fame.
 The fact is admitted that Craw- ford outdraws Garbo at the box office.
 Does the canny girl from swe- den desire to retire before time strips from her the legend of fame?
 When Marion Talley announced that she would rather listen to the music of the combines and reapers on her Kansas wheat farm the world doubted her. She had had remarkable career. At "A she had climbed from obscure girlhood to star roles on the Me- tropolitan stage.
 Then she said, "I do not care for wealth and fame. would rather be happy on my own farm." Inside of six months she was out Of the picture.
 heavyweight champion. He avowed his intention of knocking the world loose from a million. In a moment of juvenile laxness he said he never would marry.
 Within q year he had his mill lion and also a bride out of the social register.