GARBO’S NEW TRIUMPH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18360, 31 March 1934, Page 3

GARBO’S NEW TRIUMPH

“QUEEN CHRISTINA”

Garbo gave the world a year to forget her, states the London Daily Express. She left, Hollywood, and flitted like a wraith from country to country, followed by rumor. Now she is hack. Within half an hour of the start of her new film “Queen Christina” she. has re-established herself as the greatest personality on the screen. She is more than life size. By some strange alchemy totally removed from considerations of cinematography she succeeds in making all who appear >vith her look like automatic dolls.

Amazing stories grow round this woman. She is a living legend. A month ago one of the foremost radio corporations of America offered Garbo £SOOO just to walk to the microphone and say “Hello ’ to 20,000,000 people. She refused.

Garbo's secret is really simple. She has a strong upper lip that droits in a. straight line on either side of her mouth. It gives to her face the look of a banished saint. And her eyes question ceaseless) v.

"Queen Christina*' is a liighlyromantieised version of the story of the great Queen of Sweden, who abdicated because she did not want to marry the country’s conquering hero, returned from the wars. The real Christina sailed away to Rome, where she eventually died of dissipation. Garbo just sails away.