The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-15
 Movie Fans Ask: Has The GlamOrOuS Greta Finally Found Lasting Romance
BY PAUL HARRISON NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Hollywood, March 10 - Has true love come to Greta Garbo-and will it last?
 These are the questions being asked by movie fans the world over as Greta wanders along the rocky paths that skirt the Bay of Naples, arm in arm with Leopold Stokowski, world-famed musician and sym phony conductor.
 Rumors from the Villa Cimbrone, Ravello, where Greta is enjoying an idyllic holiday with Stokowski, in- sist that the two artists are to be married within two weeks, probably at Turin, Italy.
 But similar and no less forceful rumors have circled about the head of Greta Garbo before. In Holly wood where most stars marry early and often, Miss Garbo, unmarried at 32, has stood out as unique.
 Her magic name has been TO- mantically connected with practi- cally every leading man with whom she appeared, and even to be seen frequently in company with ships officers during a transatlantic voy- age has been enough to set lino- type machines clanking.
 Should Garbo find fulfillment in her present attachment to Stokow- ski, 1t would be for the first time in her life. Not that she has had no romances. She has. But al- ways fate, or death, of circum- stance, came between and pre- vented the complete unfolding of romance.
 Idyylic Spot Chosen
 Now, in company with the bril- liant Stokowski, musician, conduc- tor, composer, scientific experiment. CT, whose alert mind and forceful personality mark him out in any company, Garbo may be forgetting her long devotion to Mauritz Stiller, and her ill-fated romance with John Gilbert.
 Ravello, the tiny town where Stokowski has rented the ancient Villa Cimbrone, is fertile soil for romance. Near famous Amalfi on the Gulf of Salerno, it is pictur- esquely nestled in the hills high above the blue bay. Together the two have walked over the Isle of Capri, where the ruins of Tiberius' IA villas molder in the grass, where Norman Douglas South Wind signs through the cypress trees, and Axel Munthe meditates his story of San fha jc- land that inspired the current song writer to compose "TwaS on the Isle of Capri that I found her ." and SO forth.
 In the warm Neapolitan sunshine, the early days in Stockholm must seem far away to Greta Garbo, great as her attachment is for her native city. But perhaps she may remember the days when as a poor shop-girl with theatrical ambitions, she stood at stage doors hoping for a glimpse of Einar Hansen or Carl Brisson, then matinee idols. Hans sen later went to Hollywood and was killed in an auto crash. Bris- son is a star there today. Neither was more than a schoolgirl crush, Stiller Never Forgotten
 But Mauritz Stiller, the Swedish director who turned the chunky lit- tie Gustavson girl from a hat model into a movie actress, was a far greater influence in Garbo's life an influence that will probably be lifelong. It was Stiller who taught her all she knew about acting. It was Stiller who gave her that first picture break" It was Stiller who insisted on taking her along to Hol- lyWood when he had his chance there.
 Stiller was a man old enough to be father of the 19-year-old girl who went after Hollywood career with such determination. It is unlikely that there was any romantic attachment between them in the ordinary movie sense. But for many years, until his death in 1928, Greta Garbo held a deep affection, tinged with admiration and gratitude, for the man whom she rightfully regarded as the mas ter from whom she had learned her craft. In earlier years her dog like devotion to Stiller and her eagerness to obey his slightest com- mand were noted throughout Hol- lyWood.
 Fate Steps In
 Here Fate stepped in. Stiller, who brought Garbo to Hollywood as a mere appendage of his own directoral genius, failed as a di- rector of American pictures. But Garbo, his protege, went on to greater and greater success.
 When Stiller died in 1928, the news was brought to Garbo on the set. She went dead white, then pulled herself together and played out the scene. But her aSsocia- tion with Stiller definitely marked her entire life.
 It was even rumored, but with out the slightest substantiation, that Stiller and Garbo were once married.
 In fact there were some who believed that even when a more romantic attachment came to Greta Garbo, the gaunt ghost of Stiller stood between them. No