Evening star., 1935-01-09


her first American picture.
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WE HAD the pleasure of meeting
Miss Christians in Hollywood
this Summer. A tall, strong, blond
energetic creature, she struck us i'm
mediately as not only being a nice
person. but as also having phenom-
email sense of humor. Why is it that
most tragediennes off stage are darn
sight funnier than condolences? The
answer probably is that they don't try
so hard.
"OF COURSE we are coming to
" Washington" Thus writes Ray
Henderson from Katharine Cornell's
offices in New York in reply to query
made by this department a few days
ago. He adds: But when, we do not
know. We have had to add a week to
Romeo and Juliet. In this case it is
by public demand"
Thus we have to apologize to many
many good people who have recently
asked about Miss Cornell's possible
pilgrimage to Washington and to
whom We have invariably replied,
mo, she is positively not coming"
The fact that she is, is just about the
best news of the season.
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THE man who photographed Greta
= Garbo in her first Swedish pic
ture, "GoSte Berling," Selma Lagerl
of famous story is in town
nay, has been in town 10 these many
moons. His name is Sifrid A. Lar
sen-he is having an exhibition of
his photographs this very minute
(and all this monthly in the Arts and
Industries Buildings of the National
MuSeum-and at odd hours you'll find
him at the Wardman Park Hotel as
captain of the staff in the down.
stairs dining room.
Mr.. Larsen back in 1922 was chief
camera man with that Stockholm film
company which discovered Miss
Carlo. He said: "She was seen one
night at restaurant in Stockholm
sitting with three other pupils of the
dramatic academy where she was
studying. At that time she was II
or 18-very, very beautiful, and much
81 don't know what they have done
to her in Hollywood, but she is
changed-oh yes - changed very
much. But she was very difficult to
work with. Although it was her first !
picture and I had the pleasure of
taking even those test shots which
were shot at the academy to see
whether or not she would do for the !
part, she was easily overcome by emo |
tion-Would burst into tears at the !
slightest preteXt and we would often |
have to stop work as early as IL |
o'clock in the morning. She was al |
ways asking about America"
Mr.. Larsen then explained that it |
was due to Mr.. Mayer and Douglas |
Fairbanks, who were visiting in |
Sweden, that Garbo was brought to |
America. They saw "Goste Berling,"
which was shown only to Swedish So
cieties in this country, and they saw |
Miss Garbo. One look at her was
enough. Over she came. Rumor has |
it that she's been here ever since.
But Mr.. Larsen's woe over her |
looks is very, very apparent. She
used to be So" and he sighed as |
ne indicated With certain curved |
sweep Of his hand that was-er-l
stouter.
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REBE DANIELS and Ben Lyons, ac-
~ cording to a Hollywood scribe of |
the morning gazettes, are headed for
New York to do that Broadway play
which they have been hankering to do. |
But what does this lithsome West |
Coast scribbler mean when she says
in her opening paragraph that Philip |
Moeller, who is to direct Hepburn in
her next picture, "has had no expe-
rience in the movies? Can she have
been doing a shut-eye when Mr..
Moeller was directing Irene Dunn and |
John Boles in 1.-THE Age Of limo
cence"? Or didn't that count as 'tex-
perience"?