Evening star., 1934-09-16

matter II the men VINO know real DeauCy Wneu
they see it are going to give her tumble.
As q sample of the sort Of things these ex-
perts are saying you can listen to the words
Of DR.. Arnold Genthe.
Dr. Genthe is q famous photographer. He
specializes in taking pictures Of lovely women.
Man and boy. he has been looking at beauti-
full women for q great many years. the race
that launched thousand ships wouldn't get
ripple out Of him-he has seen it too often. in
all possible guises.
A ND Dr. Genthe is moved to remark that
n physical beauty doesn't mean Q thing un-
less it is enlivened by charm. vivacity and in
teIligence in the lucky lady who possesses it.
Hear him as he speaks:
ITO be beautiful q woman must have grace
and rhythm. She must possess freedom Of
motion Her face must hold spiritual charm.
There must be magnetism-something must
call from within"
And just so you won't get Dr. Genthe wrong.
1t ought to be pointed out that this call from
within has nothing to do with the famous
'come-hither look" that the poets and other
folk occasionally talk about.
There is such thing continues DR..
Genthe, "as being beautiful and not realizing
it, or on the other hand, being definitely
convinced that you are beautiful when no.
body else thinks so.'
The photographer well remembers the way
on a startled world
"A number of years ago." he relates, "she
was asked by one of the big film officials, who
had seen one of her pictures in Germany, to
to New York with her Swedish director.
Maurice Stiller, and have some tests made.
"She came lot Of tests were made, lot
of interviews were held. It go. The
verdict that she Just wasn't lovely
enough.
Martha Hedman the Swedish actress was
a mutual friend of Greta Garbo and me. One
day she brought Garbo to my studio"
The photographer remembers that day very
well-as who wouldn't?
Greta Garbo was tired. She said that her
frock was mussed. She didn't think she was
looking her best Perhaps, though the photog-
rapher doesn't recall it, she added that she had
lust washed her hair and couldn't do a thing
with it. Anyhow, she didn't have any expecta-
ton that her charm was going to impress any
body that day.
But DR.. Genthe was impressed. He liked her
beauty and charm, and he felt that she had
definite pictorial possibilities. He insisted that
she pose for him anyhow.
PERHAPS" he says, ito the ordinary eye
the 1s-year old girl didn't look especially pre-
possessing. But I made a series of photo
graphs of her.
FEW weeks later Carlo came in again.
n No contract had been signed She was still
tired She thought she would go home now
home to Sweden. DIR. Genthe asked her if she
had shown her new photographs to the movie
folk She said she had not.
"They have so many of me already" she
pleaded.
who caresP" replied the photographer "Send
the new ones over by messenger without de-
lay"
The rest, as you might say. is history.
The film people were having a conference
when the pictures arrived. They looked at the
pictures and unanimously gasped.
"Is that" asked one official, the blond
Swede who has been hanging around here for
the last two weeks? If she can look like
that, for Heavens sake go get her. Give her
what she wants. but don't let her 60"
So Garbo got her job. and pretty soon she
was famous as one of the worlds most charm
Ing and lovely women.
DIR. Genthe goes on to cite examples of the
way in which other elements than mere physical
beauty 60 to create loveliness.
"Eleanora Duses face, which photographed
when she was ST." he says, possessed. even at
that time Q spiritual and sculptural beauty per.
haps unsurpassed at any other time OF her
career" 49,. ...-.s.-4