Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1931, Page 44

Greta Garbo’s Private Life Work Is Begun on "Love,” but lllness of Star Holds Up Production for Six Weeks. Mauritz Stiller Goes Home. BY RILLA PAGE PALMBORG. Hollyweod was keenly interested when ® was announced that Greta Garbo and John Gilbert were starting work on “Lo adaptation of Toistoy's clas- nna Karenina.” While Greta Kking on this picture she began e thern! When I am a big star 1 er give another.” Garbo's pictures all called for the exotic. clinging garments of a siren EBbe hated to stand for dress fittings. Bhe took no interest in her clothes. Bhe was the despair of the wardrobe department. I wish they were all bags and all alike, to jump into quick,” she | said “It 1s eiMcult to dress Greta Garbo,” | sald Andre Ani, studio de: “She | has foreign ideas about ¢ that do | mot go well in American pictures. She wants short skirts when she should have long ones. She has many dislikes. h fur on it She wants neither lace nor velvet garments, She goes in for flaunting, bizarre collars and cuffs. And her figure—it is difficuit to dress.” T. Studio Found Double. The new picture, “Love.” called for many beautiful gowns. When Greta balked at the Jong hours necessary for fittings the studio began to look about for_a double. ‘The blonde Geraldine de Vorak, an xtra, had the same physical measure- | ents as Garbo. Even her face was | haped like the Swedish star’s. There a5 & decided resemblance in their | § It wns Geraldine'’s duty to have Arbo’s gowns fitted on her. She also “stood in" for rehearsals while it was igured out where the star should stand lvklch scene, where she should sit or 'wa &mrulonlll,\'. in long shots, when her | . GRETA GARBO. scold or find fault with her for fear she’l]l turn around and go home.” But Garbo's tardiness wasn't because she was conceited. She just couldn't seem to pull herself together. She wis cold and tired all the time. Between scenes she would wrap herself in a heavy fur coat. She could hardly wait | for_the noon hour, to lie down and rest. One day she did not appear for work. SPECIAL PRICES ON MOVING Save money. Call Kreig about that moving job. ~Safe—Reliable. The Original KRIEG'S EXPRESS & STORAGE CO. ALLOWEEN| SPECIALS At the BIG TOY and NOVELTY STORE COSTUMES ce could not be seen, she was used the picture. It was her business to e Garbo's energy whenever she could. “Gott! She looks like me,” exclaimed Greta the first time she saw Geraldine Imodeling gowns. | Never did any girl enjoy her work fnore than the double of Greta Garbo. All day long she sat close to the star studying her every movement. All day fong she imagined what it would be dke to be the great Greta Garbo. Girl Enjoyed Work. ., Stardom bored Garbo, and when the @ay's work was done she left its glitter- | ing, dazzling garments at the studio. | ‘Then Geraldine picked them up and | ut them on. With her hair slicked | ck from her face like Garbo's, wear- | ing the clinging, exotic garments of the | Garbo of the screen, Geraldine would | sit at the table in lrg:y night club, | ooking more like Ga than Garbo herself, while Garbo, in a rough tweed | coat, with a slouch relt hat pulled down over her eyes, hurried home to | quiet and peace. | Life at the studio was much easler | for Garbo after her double came. | She found her gowns for each scene | ready and waiting to be slipped over | her head by the maid the studio had e ed to wait on her while she was | w 3 All the movements and positions of | the star in each scene had been figured out before her arrival. The focusing of | the big arc lights and the spotlights | had all been arranged. But even so, Garbo was often late. Many times she held up the “shooting” 8s director, cameraman and other mem- ‘ bers of the company sat about waiting dor her arrival. | Had Them All Afraid. | ver since she got her way with her | new contract, she has had the b head,” said a young man who was pl: | ing extra. “But if she can get away | with it, more power to her,” he laughed. | ! 's got them all scared und | sal “They don't dare ' KIDWELL’S MARKETS, Inc. siiea Hams 55, m. i‘t ' Fresh Hams %2 Smoked o Wnarl 98¢ o 5498 s 5c ea. Open Late Hallowsen Night GARRISON’S Toy & Novelty Co. here, ‘another. 1215 E St. N.W. Finest_Quality " 1w, 1215¢ ound Steak. ...... m 18¢c b. 16¢ Sirloin Steak .. m.19¢ | Smoked Shoulders.. m. 11c (Best Grade, 8 to 10 Ibs.) 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When she returned to the , radiant and’ full of th on the mance was on again in full swing and that living their love scenes and not acting them. Calloused property men, soene shifters and electricians stood _spell- bound when Jack took Greta in his a While Garbo had been struggling with a new contract, s love affair For five weeks she work and iliness, things had not gone the stars were once more | well with Mauritz Stiller. Hollywood did not seem to appreciste his foreign ideas of direction. He decided to g0 Sweden | 1 he left. his protegee, the girl whom he had refused to go to the film capital. did not return with him. The spotlight had been turned | upon her. Greta Garbo was now famous all over the world. * x ox Greta Garbo Says She Never Marry 931, by Rilla Page " e Eleven lobsters, weighing 70 pounds, | were brought up in the net of fisher-| men on Lake Drimbuie, Scotland, the largest crustacean measuring 32 inches and weighing 11'; pounds. (Tomorrow W (Copyrix Paimbors.) | FOUNDE OCTOBER 30, RRISON 1931. MAN HELD FOR GRAND JURY ; AFTER FATAL STABBING Coroner’s Jury Holds Accused Re- sponsible for Death of Another | on Q Btreet. William Watkins, 30, colored, 1611 Sixth street, was held for the action of | the grand jury by & coroner's jury at the District Morgue yesterday, in con- | nection with the stabbing to death of | Wesley Phillips, 35, colored, of 718 | Twentieth street, last Sunday morning. Phillips’ body was found lying in the street in the 500 block of Q street by | D 1894 1109 F St N.W. S Eddie Brown. colored, 1508 Sixth street, | a taxicadb driver, early Sunday morning. Testimony at the inquest purported to show Watkins had stabbed Phil- lips in the neck after the two men had engaged in an argument at a party. The fight occurred in the 1600 block of Sixth street. Watkins. who could not PHII.Q'D“!'I.PHIA . | be located by police after Phillipe’ body | was found gave himsel 1f up to police several days later. 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