Film series to feature Garbo

   Lost love and a string of meaningless affairs among the wealthy social class make up the 1928 controversial silent film, A Woman of Affairs.
   The NE Campus silent film screening will be in NFAB 1302 Tuesday, April 13, 2 p.m. with a discussion afterward.
   The film has an all-star cast that includes Greta Garbo as the misunderstood socialite Diana Merrick and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as her brother Jeffry Merrick.
   Diana loses her true love Neville, played by John Gilbert, because of the disapproval of his father Morton, played by Hobart Bosworth.
   Morton dislikes Jeffry, who drinks, and he cannot stand Diana, so he sends his son to Egypt after talking him out of marrying Diana.
   Diana waits for Neville for two years, and then marries her brother’s best friend David, played by John Mack Brown.
   Because the police are after him, David jumps to his death, and Diana is blamed for his suicide.
   Because she chooses to hide the truth about David from her brother, he casts her out of London high society.
   Diana lives up to the reputation of shamefulness and dishonor by having meaningless affairs with men around the world.
   After seven years of affairs, Diana returns to London and is reunited with Neville only three days before his wedding to another woman.
   Although Diana tempts Neville while the fiancé questions him about her, she still carries the blame for her husband’s suicide.
   The film is based on Michael Arlen’s 1928 controversial novel The Green Hat, which caused a stir because it dealt with an unmarried woman and her many dalliances with different men. The film also cemented Garbo’s popularity.
   The NE silent film series is open to anyone interested in classic films.