GRETA GARBO

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 180, 31 July 1936, Page 10

GRETA GARBO

“GIVE ME PEACE. ’ j TEMPERAMENTAL STAR “I want to be alone!” I Greta - always - the - actress- * Garbo turned up -the collar of hei j swirling cape, covered her face with her hands, and, flinging her famouc saying at me, raced up ihe compan-ion-way of the liner Gripsholm to the bridge (says a writer in the Daily Express). Her wide hat awry, she glared a. me and shouted dramatically, “Give me peace.” In this theatrical way the Garbo left her native country for Hollywood. As the ship was pulling away she became calmer. She stood on the deck, a glass of champagne poised in her hand, chewing at her screwed up | handkerchief in a vain effort to keep back her tears. But for the glass of champagne, Garbo might have been an emigrant servant girl leaving ner native country for ever. Her clothes were drab, wisps of hair streaked from under a hat which half covered her face. She wore tennis shoes and a yellow jumper under her cloak. Garbo, whose publicity campaigns rival, those of the famed Mae West, though in a different manner. Is reported to be returning to Hollywood for two years. That may, or may not, be correct. Garbo has left Hollywood at short notice before, and is likely to do so again. Salutes “Things to Come.” Time magazine has three pages of the issue for April 6 devoted to a recognition of “Things to Come” part of which reads as follows:- -Time salutes the film that dwarfs all pictures of the past, and challenges all pictures of the future! It is interesting to notice that Times is so impressed with “Things to Come” that it broke all precedents and for the first time in the history of America's greatest news, weekly it has devoted three pages to the film.