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DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY. APRIL 29. 1937 3 Garbo, ike Sphinx (CdDiiirit TLMfiff innm Exalte i 1S)I17, IPeirsfliiiiiig Says of Stiller Spea 6in 9 And Gen. John J.

Pershing may be the most gorgeously dressed American at the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth, but he was ready to bite anv- (Copyright 1937 by X. Y. News Syndicate, Inc.) Hollywood, April 28 Greta Garbo's longest interview on the subject of her "dark years" the years she spent in Europe before she became the world's most glamorous motion picture star was revealed tonight. IfZZZT ZL -J I i I The enigam of the screen broke her long-sustained silence on the days of her obscurity to answer questions put to her by counsel in the suit of the one-time German producer, David gchrafter, to recover a $10,000 loan. Disavowing all knowledge of the transaction, the star's responses threw into startling relief against the drab backdrop of a routine nnsttttirijp Trains julia McCarthy.

The doom of burlesque in seventeen New York theatres where strip-teasers display their "art" was indicated yesterday at a hearing before License Commissioner Paul Moss. Theatre owners sat in glum Ilurlesque stripping, popularized by Gypsy Rose Lee, was condemned yesterday by church witnesses. They demanded that License Commissioner Moss refuse to renew bur-lesque licenses. 07 General Pershing, in civilian clothes, as he sailed yesterday for Lon-don, and the General in a fall dress uniform similar to that he has designed to wear at coronation ceremonies. body who as much ai mentioned "that uniform yesterday.

That unifonn (cost, $600) will be his coronation costume a gold-- spangled, gold-sabered, gold-belted, buff-sashed creation the like of which has never sources the following details of his $600 creation were forthcoming. Knee-length coat. Gold oak leaves embroidered on each side of been seen on an American fighting man before. The General designed it himself, bat the Pershing door was slammed, and the Pershing mouth was grimly shot when he sailed on the Presr dent Harding to represent Presi dent Roosevelt at the Coronation. When reporters tapped at Pershing's door to inquire politely about his epochal sartOTial creation, the Greta Garb Stiller ua htr Svtngali.

court procedure, the Trilby-Sven-gali relationship which has often been attributed to her and Maurice Stiller, who a decade ago was known as the world's foremost director. It was Stiller, she admitted in an artlessly-phrased series of answers, who dominated her life to the extent that "I had not anything to do with my own things at that time. It was Stiller who brought her to America and fame with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is dead now, but the rumor persists that he was secretly married to Garbo. It was Stiller, she admitted, who the high collar, and on each cuff.

Four gold stars embroidered on each sleeve, and gold epaulets on the shoulders. Sash and Belt. A wide, buff sash from the right shoulder extends diagonally across the chest and encircling the waist but not hiding, a belt with gold embroidered oak leaves. From the belt will be suspended a gold saber. Two gold stripes run down each leg of the full-length trousers.

Topping it all -will be the General's most modish creation a cocked hat crested with ostrich plumes and encircled with gold braid. As Pershing bade the press good portal was opened a cracic ana soft-voiced aid announced: Story Irks General. The General is sore about the silence as a parade of witnesses representing Catholic, Protestant and Jewish organizations demanded that Moss refuse to renew the licenses of all such playhouses. The licenses expire at midnight Friday. day, Admiral Hugh Rodman, introduced her to David Schratter.

In those days of 1924, he was president of the Trianon Film Co. in Berlin. Now he is living in Santa broad hint as to his course of action when he read the rules U.S.N, retired, who is also to be an official representative at the he established for burlesque Con tin tied on page IS, tel. 1) (Continued on page SO, eot. 1 houses last year, rules which banned "vulvar, obscene or -and PUiU UmUcs" indecent acts" and held thea tre operators accountable.

He read into the record scores of letters and heard more than a dozen witnesses, all condemning burlesque. Again and again, he the andiencei still liked them." But the strongest protest was an indirect one. Word was conveyed to the bearing that Patrick Car-, dinal Hayes was personally interested in ending burlesque. John Molanphy, of 618 K. 21st Brooklyn, a member of lie Catholic Clubs Committee of Thirty to investigate burlesque, said that his committee "was called together on direct information by Cardinal Hayes." Babbi Stephen S.

Wise wrote: talk about cleaning up burlesque. They might as well try to freeze hell over." Other Church Protects. His associate at the Free Synagogue, Dr. Sydney E. Goldstein, described the shows at Minsky'i on 42d St.

and the Irving Place house as "utterly indecent and immoral." The Rev. Dr. Christian F. Keisner. of Broadway Taber aftked theatre owners if they had any defense to make, but they re story on the uniform.

Don ask him about it-" Finally, the General opened op. Much to the disappointment of those outside, he did not afford them a preview o' his uniform. He was dressed neatly in a dark gray, double-breasted business suit. "How about your uniform. General!" piped up a reporter.

Pershing chewed his moustache vigorously. "The description has been very, very much exaggerated," he eventually informed the press. It's simply an adaptation of the old Brigadier-General's full dress uniform that I wore 20 years ago. It is just changed to correspond to my present rank. It's a correct regulation uniform." Ranks as Designer.

As General of the Armies, a rank created especially by Congress, Pershing was given the right to design his own uniforms. That puts him in a class with Patou and other noted designers of clothes. So the next question was: "Will the uniform have knee breeches?" "Young man," the General said, "you should go to a CCC camp and learn about uniforms there." The CCC uniform consists of khaki pants and a khaki shirt. So the General must have been spoofing, particularly since from other mained silent in the back row. chewing their cigars.

Even an old-timer the burlesque business protested against the shows of today. Billy Watson, whose "Beef Trust" was a byword in the old days of burlesque, wrote to Moss: Caller Cesspools of Vice. "Filth does not last. A little ginger, yes. If you cut out the strip-teases, you will make the theatres a place where a man can take his wife and children.

When Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio and some of the others worked for me, they didn't do the strip tease, and nacle, dubbed burlesque from hear I ii iiiiiWIll Mi iiiimiiii -iiMiliriiMtw'-illwNmrairr iiiiiH Mi iWllrtrtjar-r-W Jt nmwftnlllliM -1 say as "a nauseatingiy-conuucted spectacle," while the Rev. Joseph A. McCaffrey protested the proximity of burlesque houses to his Holy Cross Church at 329 W. Questioned on his coronation uniform as he sailed yesterday for London with bis wife, Admiral Hugh Hodman told reporters, I think I will wear pink undies." 42d St..