The Archive · 1938

Garbo Famous

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Evolved en California Beach Millions of words have been written about the mystery of Garbo. I helped to create it, writes Sven-Hugo Borg in the "Sunday Chronicle."

Her desire for solitude was, in the first place, natural She had always shrunk from contact with people. In the film world she had become famous through the medium of Stiller, but she still shrank from meeting people.

It was I who first suggested that she should make capital out of her love of priv We were lying on e beach at Santa Monica. The sun was. beating down, and we were relaxed in the glorious semi-tropical heat.

"I know you e not acting, Greta, when you hide from people, I told David O. Selznick has been at great pains in making the new elaborate film, in technicolour "The of Adventures of. Tom wyer.

Amongst the sets which have been built are the caves of some of Tom's most celebrated adventures. These caves have been given an emotional value. Their colour has changed to suit the dramatic moment.

According to the theory of the films director, Norman Taurog, different hues are responsible for different moods of audiences watching coloured pictures on the screen. So when Tom and Beck were experiencing fear, buckets of gloomy paint ere thrown over the caves. There one time a school of chromo-psychology s who believed that you could make a man be or do almost anything if one confined him in certain coloured rooms.

One will note with interest the effects of Mr, Tsurog's chromatic experiments on mass psychology, one fears that the present limitations of technicolour may rob them of some of their or emotional value.

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