“The Painted Veil”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 115, 8 February 1935, Page 16

“The Painted Veil”

“'THE PAINTED VEIL,” Greta Garbo’s new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, brings the glamorous Swedish start back to the screen in the twentieth starring production since her arrival in America less than ten years ago. As a distinct contrast to her last film, “Queen Christina,” Garbo returns once more' to tlie fold of modern women in her characterisations and comes

through with the most gripping dramatic performance of her career. The Painted Veil,” an adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s domestic drama of marital discord in the seething centre of China’s plague-ravished regions, tells the story of a modern woman married to a medical scientist who thinks first of his work before, thinking of his wife. The wife, lonely and yearning for love, believes she finds it when she meets a presentable Englishman named Townsend. When the husband discovered his wife’s infidelity, and when Townsend refuses to divorce his own wife to marry Katherine, he drags her into the plague country George Brent plays opposite the star.