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she explains. "Garbo can create
that for herself. I've seen her do
it many times. I've stood as close
to her as I am to you a couple OF
feet as a crow would hop and felt
a thousand miles away. So 1t ism I
that. 1t is just that she, like any
other actress. does not want to re-
veal the actual process of creating
a scene or bit of business. She is
constantly making changes, playing
a given passage in a dozen different
WAYS.
1T is not an attitude peculiar to
actresses, although that is a popu-
lar suppoSition. You don't suppose
Somerset Vaughan would enjoy
writing with four plump clubwomen
looking over his shoulder, remark
ing, let's see how it goes
Has a Sense Of Humor.
Garbo is such an impressively
rehearsed actress when she comes
on a set that she is upsetting when
one first meets her, Miss Gordon
learned. Ordinarily she is always
up on her lines herself. She fluffed
them a couple of times IN Two
Faced Women" through her sheer
concentrated admiration for the
star of the picture.
everything she does is the re-
suit of enormously careful, studied
preparation" is her estimate Of
Garbo. But she is very amenable
to suggestion. She is great ad-
mirer of Cukor's and his merest
thought that another way might
be better resulted in her trying his
way"
The furor the studio made over
Garbo's laugh in "Ninotchka.' the
laugh that infected millions. strikes
Miss Gordon as mere promotlon.
She is a deep admirer of the Carlo
sense of humor, her great fondness
for a joke.
In common with lot Of human
itv. Miss Gordon would like to see
Garbo on the stage. where she
thinks she would be equally an out
standing figure. But she doesn't
think she ever will. Garbo is too
shy.
I'D die in front of all those peo-
pie" Garbo says.
Miss Gordon doesn't believe 1t, but
Garbo does.
So, undoubtedly. she will just re-
main in Hollywood.
Most Popular.
Until some one revives Show
boat" which is mentioned from time
to time in a dreaming sort OF way
The Student Prince will go on
being written down as the most pop
ular item of musical entertainment,
Seventeen years ago the tuneful ro-
nance of Karl and Kathie began,
and somewhere it has been playing
without interruption ever since.
When it was revived last season by
the ShubertS there was some trepi-
dation. but not much. that its Ger
man locale might have chilled the
hearts that once loved it. 1t did
nothing of the kind, the assumption
being apparently that it was "the
old Germany"
Why "Troilus?'
Ask Leon Askin. Civic Theater
director. why "Troilus and Cressida -
should be the theaters next produc-
ton, and, quick as a flash, he re-
plies:
What is the Importance of
"Troilus and Cressida?' The
answer is clear. "Troilus and
Cressida" treats the war theme
from the fundamental roots.
That war exists. has existed and
unfortunately will probably con-
tinue 70 exist is more than the
drive of political and economic
expansion. "Troilus and Cres-
sida" brings out the first law of
nature. the unrestricted drive of
human emotions-seX And where
has sex more license than in
wartimes? Hundreds of books
have been written on the evils of
sex in wartime. Shakespeare
treats the subject in his own bit
terly ironical way He makes
finn of tho Crociop n Ierooc haroI1Se
all they have in mind is a good
time. He makes fun of the Tro-
jams because they are ignorant
in their decadence-of what they
are fighting for. Disunity and
personal vanity marks them as
doomed for defeat. And he mocks
the profiteers of war-in all kinds
OF business, think Of Pandar.