New Type of “Glamour Girl”
can’t sharpen pencils, ‘hammer nails 1 in straight, or do sums;' I like jade, buttermilk, and grapefruit juice, and I think you might describe me as a flibbertigibbet with a magnificent beauty case and a few long words,” Greer Garson told an interviewer in Hollywood recently. Greer Garson plays Mrs. Chips in “Good-bye, Mr. Chips," Robert Donat's latest starring film, and she is a new type of “glamour-girl” in Hollywood. Newspaper men, after interviewing her, commented that she was "Intelligent and amusing”— apparently rare qualities in screen stars, new or no-t so new. Certainly it was strange to * find books by Sacheverell Sitwell on her table.
“He has some grand new words* she said as she flipped over tin pages. “I love wbrds .that roll round the tongue, the longer the better, though I can conduct an interview in words of one or two syllables if you prefer it.” Miss Garson's dressing-room is furnished in shades of green—perfect background for her red hair. Her printed silk frock was covered with a full-length white pique c’oat.'and she wore .a jade ring.,
“Intelligent and Amusing”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 15
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188New Type of “Glamour Girl” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20023, 23 August 1939, Page 15
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