Evening star., 1939-10-15
She Meant 1t.
And She Did
Go Home
1ngrid Bergman's s
Return Is Sought
Urgently Now
By Mark Barron,
Associated Press Stan Writer.

NEW York.
She's a Swede, and she did 20
home.
But the New York Offices of Da-
vid Selznick Productions were to-
day frantically entreating by cable
that 1ngrid Bergman come right
back to Hollywood instead of watt
ing until next April as she planned.
When, after finishing her per-
formance opposite Leslie Howard in
the movie "Intermezzo," she said
in good English, Il think shall 20
home" her cinema producers
thought she was staging that "Ay
tank Ay 60 home now" stunt OF
her countrywoman, Greta Carlo.
But the blond 23-year-old Miss
Bergman really meant what she
said, and when she missed the
cheers of Broadway critics for her
performance in "Intermezzo" Kay
Brown, talent scout, who first lured
her away from Sweden, rushed to
the cable of1ce to urge the return.
Il don't know what she will say"
Miss Brown remarked after the In
termezzo" premiere here, "and I
don't know what she means after
she says it, despite the fact that
she speaks not only English but
three other languages f1uently. Like
most OF the Swedes she smilingly
says Yes and Thank you and
everything else agreeable, and you
are never quite sure If she quite
knows exactly what she is saying.
Il was sent to Europe to bring her
to Hollywood after Selznick had
seen her in a Swedish picture. In
Stockholm found she was one of
the two top stars in Swedish pic
lures, that she was married to DR..
Peter Lindstrom and that she was
the mother OF month-old baby.
When she got back to Stockholm
from Hollywood the baby was 10
months old, and she wrote me that
she felt bad because the baby didn't
seem to know her"
But Miss Bergman thinks directly
like that. She is practical minded.
When she arrived in New York she
was taken with police escort to the
Worlds Fair, where she was guest
OF honor at the Swedish Pavilion
and presided over other ceremonies
The next day she was missing from
her hotel until long past dinner,
and when at last she was tracked
down she confessed she had spent
the day 1T the fair seeing the things
that she could not view during the
previous days formalities.
In Hollywood she read in . news-
paper about the fair at San Fran
cisco. so she boarded a train, went
up and spent the day wandering
around the fair on Treasure Island.
Returning to the railroad station
she found she didn't have enough
fare for ticket back to Hollywood,
so she went to the ticket agents
window and naively asked him to
cash check. He did.
Although she is a blond, Miss
Bergman's hair photographs dark.
She has that quiet mystery of Garbo,
but lightens this quality with a gay
and humorous animation. She is an
accomplished pianist, which was
fortunate, for in "Intermezzo" she
must play Brahms, List and Bee
thoven.
She is taller than the average
actress, being 5 feet 6 and weighs
120 pounds, which makes 1t neces-
sary for her to wear shoes without
heels in order not to tower over her
leading men. She has a tattered
pair of fiat slippers that she has
long worn in movies, but when she
arrived in Hollywood the studio cos
tuners attempted to fit her with an
expensive pair of new leather Slip
pers. She tried to decline them,
saying that she had her old, worn
slippers. The costumers insisted,
saying that they would cost her
nothing, that they would be paid
for by John Hay Whitney, principal
stockholder in the studio.
Miss Bergman relented, but after
that when wearing the new slippers
on the set she could be heard mur-
muring, Poor Mr.. Whitney,"