Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1931, Page 36

Greta Garbo’s Private Life Actress Tried to Prepare Own Meals When Servants Were Given Day Off—Star Scorned Superstitions. BY RILLA PAGE PALMBORG. CHAPTER XV. “Soon after Greta Garbo moved into | her house,” said Gustaf Norin, “she had an electric bell installed from her bed room to the servant's room, with the button placed within easy reach | of her bed. She kept that bell ring- | ing all hours of the day and night.| She. always thought she was hearing | ‘burglas Garbo liked to take her meals at home. She refused to go out to eat on | the one day a week that Gustaf and | his wife Sigrid had off. Gustaf sald | she knew so little about cooking that he always felt guilty when he left| Greta to get a meal. She was like a child trying to prepare it. | “She “wouldn’t have known how to boll or bake potatoes” he said. “So| we would leave cooked potatoes cut up | in 8 frying pan. On these I would put a note saying, ‘Stir often When over the fire or they will burn.’ “Garbo never liked fruit salad, but was very fond of vegetables. When we went out I usually left a salad— cooked beets, carrots, string beans and | | house did. stories sbout the sleepless nights of Greta Garbo. It is said Garbo often called her business manager at 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, when, nervous and worn out from lack of sleep. she felt she had to talk with some one or go insame. It has also been said that, when tortured by insomnia, she would get up and go for long walks in the dead of night. Gustaf says these stories are untrue. When Garbo could not sleep she would read. Often he would see her light burning all through the night “She did lie awake a lot at night,” e said. as much as she did during the day couldn’t _expect to sleep all through the night. When Garbo wasn't swimming or walking or exercising, she was usu- ally lying down. “When she didn't want to sleep she seemed to think no one else in the all through the night. I used to swear I would disconnect the thing before I went to bed. Sigrid got _so she would sleep right through it. But it seemed as though I was always waiting for it to ring.” Gustaf was always reminding Garbo “But_any one staying in bed | She was ringing that bell | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ones. This one on her dresser was one | tray down the cup turned over and of her favorites. It was a sort of Chi- [ some of the scal coffee splashed nese madonna, With nun-like veils|on Garbo. She was good-natured draped over its I believe it is|about it. She said it didn't burn her. called ‘Kuan Yin." Tt was made of a| “She laughed when Sigrid sald that marble composition that broke easily. |it was Friday, the thirteenth. ‘You arbo would come running into the |don't believe the day has anything to en with the two pieccs in_ her | do with it?" Garbor asked.” hands, ., ‘OH, Gustaf, I have oo i broken her again. Isn't it terrible’ | (Tomorrow: Garbo's few intimates.) She would stand there while I glued the | (Copyright, 1931, by Rilla Page Palmbors.) head back on. | o g SRl “T always knew when the little ma- | |donna had had a tumble. There would | HUSBAND IS ACQUITTED | be one long ring of the bell. Finally, I i [ got tired of gluing her fogether. 'I|y. .o s Towe Had Been Charged | bored a hole into her neck and stuck a small spike in the hole. Then I bored | with Assaulting Estranged Wife. Harvey S. Lowe, 1016 Seventeenth |another hole in her head and set the | head on the spike. “Garbo executed that lady nearly |stregt, was acquitted by a Police Court | every day. I think her arm must have | jury yesterday on a charge of assaulting | brushed the figure off as she was mak- | his estranged wife, Mrs. Olethia 8. | ing her toilet before the mirror. Often |Lowe, 3500 block of Thirteenth street. Sigrid or I would find the little idol | The wife said Lowe came to her standing on the dresser, her head off | apartment October 15 and knocked her | beside her. In her haste, Garbo did |down after a quarrel. Her head struck: not stop to put the head back on— |0 plece of furniture, fracturing her | but she mever left the idol lying on |skull, she said. the floor. More than a year 8go Lowe was shot v 5 y step-son, Wasn't Superstitious. and wounded seriously by his step: Harry V. Hasel, 17, who claimed he | “But Garbo wasn found the man mistreating Mrs. Lowe. Ome day eversining seemd oo ors AUOUS. | Hazel was released when & charge of |10 the Kitchen. Garbo was siiting oup | Assault with dangerous weapon was in the garden. and she ordered some | TOLle prossed in court. coffee and cookies, as she often did in e | the_afternoon. e Lions raised in captivity grow better Sigrid took them out to her on the | manes than those living in the jungle, tray. As she was about to set the English wild animal expert. D. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6. - 1931. hey’re Fadeproof! T oSUN-TRYD sWALL PAPERS Baltimo; Syracuse Philad, Fredericksburg Richmond Winchester Hagerstown . Cumberland . (Round Trip) ERE are fares that will save you dollars on Fall' trips. There are hundreds of others, to all parts of America. 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