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...rumors whispered by the gentlemen ahead as one crosses the Yard. If all is to be believed, the Road to Rome has its other terminus under the awning that covers the steps of Memorial Hall. "Fair as a star", but more than one will be shining March 2. Greta of the round arms and tight curls will be there. What if it be difficult beforehand to find the leading men, or afterward to learn who were the lucky players in company-with? For it is written: As a prom committee sideshows, so shall it reap...
...Divine Woman is another vehicle for the extraordinarily tempestuous passions of Actress Greta Garbo. She plays the part of Marianne, a little country girl who completely eclipses a courtesan mother by becoming the greatest actress in Paris. But even when bouquets, floral and financial, come raining down around her, she cannot forget Lucien, who, because he deserted his regiment to be near Marianne, has been put into prison...
...translation of the title of Anna Karenina. It would be natural to suppose that the rest of famed Leo Tolstoi's novel would suffer similarly; that it does not, is due in part to the direction of Edmund Goulding and in even larger part to the acting of Greta Garbo...
These moments belong mostly to Swedish Greta Garbo whose beauty infuses the picture with a cold white glow; John Gilbert as Vronsky is too frequently exposed to a highly approximate lens, he is too willing to act only with his teeth or his hair, to duplicate the excellence of his performance in The Big Parade. But his inadequacies are minor and partly made evident by contrast. Good handling of minor parts by George Fawcett, Brandon Hurst, Emily Fitzroy and Philippe de Lacy, intelligent photography, brilliant direction are enough for any picture that includes such a performance as that supplied...
...last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...