DEDICATED TO TOLSTOI

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

DEDICATED TO TOLSTOI

GRETA GARBO IN "ANNA

KARENINA."

(By JOHN STORM.)

Before I came to Sydney I had seen a preview of "Anna Karenina," and found it surpassing works of its kind both from the dramatic and artistic points of view. Now in Sydney it has opened the 1936 films. It seems to leave the same impression of style and finish on the most fastidious of occasional patrons—by these I mean the salt of the earth, the kind of people who have wit enough neither to fear the Yellow Peril nor to deplore the moral tone of pictures, recognising the two outworn fetishes as a salve to the personal conscience quite out of date-

Last evening I was invited to the house of such a one, an old friend, a pressman, who knows the responsibilities of the editorial job. I was quite delighted to hear him echo the sentiments of another of these fine fair and salty persons mentioned in my last week's letter —notably that "Queen Christina" was his choice for last year.

I found "Anna Karenina" a good second to "Christina" myself, but had not necessarily expected such emphatic and expert unanimity. The story with all its psychological inferences I found much as they did to be written in the still and composed acting of Greta