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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1937.
Nude Sunbaths Cure Garbo
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HERE have been whispers |
The blank gap between the old about Garbo's health, questions Garbo and this new one can now her fans have asked which, until be explained. this moment, have had to remain unanswered.
All of their fears were justified. Garbo has been ill, suffering considered from a malady, once hopeless.
To-day Greta Garbo's love is the sunshine,
It was in 1926 that research de- veloped the fact that eating liver in some way helped anæmia patients. This was a clue, but it was not the complete answer.
Working along these lines; greatest scientists ultimately obtained an extract from liver which was even more beneficial.
She went to dinner at Gerge
with Tilly Losch Cukor's Katharine Hepburn.
and
An invalid who has lain in ted for years must learn how to walk all over again, like a baby. So wih Garbo to-day: she must learn al over again how to mingle wit people f
The infectiously exuberant spirt of Robert Taylor was a great help to her in overcoming her shyness.
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With reason: Nude sunbaths have been a big part of the routine
Then came the Lederle intra-
Bob seemed to bring out all her which has finally conquered in a muscular injection of the extract
He showed no six-year battle for health, the full and the discovery that ventriculin, laughter and pep.
her presence and facts of which can be at last re-made from the dried stomach of a constraint in vealed:
hog, had an amazing effect.
treated her as she yearned to be
young wo- Anaemia victims, entering hosa normal, fun-loving pitals at the point of death, were man. treated with ventriculin and show-
Day after day Garbo has lain in the seclusion of a private garden while the hot Californian sun has poured life-giving rays on to her
naked body."
To-day, the battle over, a new,' radiant Garbo faces the future.
This natural treatment has been combined with a miracle of mo- dern science.
In 1981 Garbo was found to be suffering from pernicious anaemia. When a patient afflicted with this type of blood disorder entered a hospital that person was given up as lost.
ed an astonishing recovery within
a few days.
These extracts built red blood cells at a terrific rate.
Her return to glowing health and the revival of spirit that goes with
it alters the whole future outlook for her.
For years she had one ambition : to build a home in Sweden and ré- tire there. But sunshine is now her great need.
It is now known that as long as at the treatments. are continued intervals the anaemia victim can be regarded as cured. A normal life can be enjoyed.
That problem may bring about That is why Garbo's strange an important change in her future pallor has been replaced by a glow [plans. of abundant energy.
The agony and listlessness she' endured from her illness gives us the clue to the countless myths and legends built around the Mysteri-
Listless, without energy, the pa- tient wanted only to be left alone to store up, like a miser, the pre-jous Garbo. cious bit of strength-left.
All of this Garbo knew, She kept her secret.
But she crept away, lonely and frightened.
Those who remembered her in love with John Gilbert wondered.
Those who had known her when she gladly posed in track shorts for publicity stills fumbled for the
answer.
The legend of the silent Swede, a figure of melancholy, took form and grew until it completely cloak- ed the suffering woman hidden be- hind it.
Now she has emerged again, glowing with health, trying to reach out and recapture the gaiety
she once knew.
Indications of it came when she began to show an interest in the South Seas.
She gathered all the literature on them that she could find. And she The wall which the years of her has inspected the photos and floor illness erected between her and the plans of a home in Tahiti.. rest of the world is gradually be-. ing torn down.
She Fled From Love
That is why so many Garbo-ismiss were abandoned when she started work on "Camille”
She was no longer driven be tween set and dressing-room in her closed
along, She strode car. threading her way through workers and extras.
Where before she used to keep strictly to herself, with screens to hide her from view when acting, now she came out to chat with her fellow workers.
For the first time in years she visited another star, Joan Craw- ford, on her set and was introduced by Robert Taylor.
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Her illness, which had made her flee from people, had made her flee from love, too.
In John Gilbert she found the warmth and energy which she her- self lacked and could not complete- ly return.
Down through the ages, the rustle of silk about her has always added glamour to woman. Here, obeying Winter's edict of black with colour, Margo, actress, WERTE a picturesque evening cost of black taffetay over her turquoise........ blue taffeta gown.-
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Do you use. mascara? There are The love she bestowed on George
three kinds-block form, Brent was retarded by the frailtynow of her health. She slipped away cream in tubes, and oily for grow from him, took refuge in her being as well as colouring. loved Sweden.
Are your eyes close together? But now, thanks to science, there Give a wider effect by plucking a is no reason for her to turn her few hairs from the brows on either back on the love which is the birth-side of the nose.
| right of› every healthy woman.
Her picture future, too, will he answered when she makes her final picture for M.-G.-M.
Strong and well again, there is reason to believe that she will sign
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