This series offers a rare opportunity to compare Garbo's two renditions of Tolstoy's heroine Anna Karenina (the 1927 modern-dress rendition, Love, in which she plays opposite John Gilbert, was presented in December). Both scripts focus almost entirely on the love triangle (familiar enough in the Garbo repertoire) of a married woman who rebels against her cold husband (Basil Rathbone as Karenin) with an ill-fated love for a young officer (Frederic March as Vronsky). Here, however, though the novel's rich observations and characterizations are telescoped, 19th century St. Petersburg is lavishly detailed, and the plight of Anna and Vronsky skillfully linked to the decadent and hypocritical society in which they live.