Postwar Garbo?

A nation's good will abroad depends largely on the sustained quality of its exports. To New York's LaGuardia Field last week came a handsomely packaged postwar product from Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Academy, the production line that turned out Garbo, Ingrid Bergman and Signe Hasso. To expert eyes it gave no indication that the quality of Swedish exports was declining.

The daughter of a Swedish Army major, who retired to become a Stockholm publisher, auburn-haired, 25-year-old Viveca Lindfors is tallish and square-shouldered, with Tallulah Bankhead's big, mobile features and Garbo's own throaty purr. An ambitious student who used to steal scenes ("Oh, that is bad thing to do!") when her director wasn't looking, versatile Viveca (rhymes with "terrific, ah!") has been for five years one of Sweden's top stage & screen stars, playing nearly everything from Shakespeare to Maxwell Anderson.

But for the millions of U.S. cinemadorers who like their smorgasbord straight, wise Warner Bros, are taking no chances. Certain that Garbo is still best remembered as the East River waif in Anna Christie, they will soon exhibit Viveca in an adaptation of Ships in the River, a novel of the N.Y. waterfront.

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