The photoplay is a dignified and effective drama which becomes significant because of that tragic, lonely and glamorous blend which is the Garbo personality.The producers shrewdly relieve the sober drama of Anna's ill-starred romance with the dashing Count Vronsky by including one episode of hearty merriment. Samuel Goldwyn's screen edition of "Resurrection" last year discussed Tolstoy's theories of social reform, and now "Anna Karenina" widens the iris of the camera so as to link the plight of the lovers to the decadent and hypocritical society which doomed them. Having put on a couple of mental years since the 1927 version of "Anna Karenina," which called itself "Love" and meant it, the cinema now is able to stab tentatively below the surface of Tolstoy's passion tales and hint at the social criticism which is implicit in them. Miss Garbo, the first lady of the screen, sins, suffers and perishes illustriously in the new, ably produced and comparatively mature version of the Tolstoy classic at the Capitol Theatre.
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