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Reginald Taviner, Photoplay, New York, May 1933.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce Takes Up Golf. Funny, the ideas people

got! Hollywood, reading the headlines, had the notion

that Peggy was the „hot-house flower“ type of beauty. And then

she arrived on the scene to make „International House“ –

and promptly went forth in sporty garb to take golf tips from Leo

Diegel, famous Agua Caliente pro.

(...) Photo, Motion Picture, May 1933

& Garbo Due Today

      Greta Garbo is due to land somewhere on the shores

of this country today from the steamer Annie Johnson.

She may debark at San Diego and motor up, or she may stay

on board until San Pedro. Anyway, she is due at the

MGM studio Tuesday.

(...) Hollywood Reporter, April 29, 1933

„The tear of his heart“

Editorial content. „A Millionaire In Search of Happiness

      Rich in fame, money, friends, the greatest comedian of all

      time asks – in vain – for but one small gift

      By Reginald Taviner

      In Hollywood you may see ex-cigarette girls who have

become cinema princesses, and former taxi drivers

who are worshipped as demi-gods.“ (...)

      „Yet, among all the multitudes of celebrities. among

the world-famous throngs of soothsayers, stars, sycophants and

supervisors, he, the most celebrated, the most famous

great among all the near-great and the would-be great, roams

as a lost soul.

      He is lonely, because no other soul can share with him

his pedestal of genius.

      He is sad, because the laughs he has given the world

have been born in his own sorrows.

      He is a jester in the court of life, a Pagliacci whose clownish

make-up ever hides the tear of his heart.“ (...) 

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