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...Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...
...found their German, they were arrested as spies. By the time they were safely out of Russia, Andrew had contracted a bad case of insomnia, daily headaches that nearly drove him crazy. A doctor told him his days were numbered, so he spent his last energy trying to find Greta again. In a little Baltic town he found her, the night ne'er-do-well Sandy was conveniently murdered...
...Greta Garbo...
...takes a nip of sherry before she goes on stage. For the rest her entourage consists of three stuffed animals: a brown plush dog, a fluffy white cat which holds a lorgnette, a horrid-looking dachshund made of sea shells. Her enthusiasms in the U. S. are for Greta Garbo's cinemas and "the rubberneck busses" which go through San Francisco's Chinatown. She has little interest in clothes, hates social occasions and everything she calls "Kitsch" the German slang for junk, which Lehmann uses to describe everything which is artistically second-rate...
...down at the''sides, tapes his eyebrows, cuts his hair back on his forehead. Because he maintains a copper-colored sunburn, he needs little grease paint. He lives at Carpinteria, Calif., 65 miles from Hollywood, likes dabbling with oil paints, owns a six-year-old Schnauzer named Greta who, attended by a trained nurse and Warner Gland's personal physician, last week whelped eight puppies...