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Next day Conductor Stokowski received two U. S. newspaper correspondents, but again refused to answer questions about Actress Garbo. "I have a right to my private life when I want it," said he. "One must think in solitude to create. That is what I am doing now." The reporters tried another tack, asked him his favorite cinema stars. Stoky chose Charles Boyer and John Barrymore. Asked for his choice in actresses, he shook his head, "Let's go to another subject."
But in Philadelphia, where Stokowski has his orchestra, friends confidently stated that the marriage would take place in Turin between March 15 and 17. Stoky, they said, had made his plans known in a week's end telephone call to his agent.
In New York, the State Board of Regents last week appreciated the opinion of censors that it would be unfair to Actress Garbo to permit a caricatured re-issue of her 1927 silent film, Street of Sorrow, with score, dialogue and a substitute title. The objectionable title: I Vant To Be Alone.
* When early this week Emma gave birth to a brown & white calf, experts said that while Garbo might have milked Emma, it was more likely that the newshawks had watered the story.