Garbo Tips! A Santa Monica Christmas carol from 1933

Gentle reader,

Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, presently cranking out digital gift certificates to satisfy all last minute holiday needs. We don’t have a tour this weekend, but will return the day after Christmas (Tuesday) with our first ever weekday tour: a true crime and real estate corruption walk through Downtown Los Angeles.

For our latest post that’s hidden from the rest of the internet, we want to share a memorable tale of Christmas in Santa Monica 90 years ago, featuring Sweden’s most beguiling export, Greta Garbo.

We found this story in the back pages of Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, which we were consulting at the Huntington Library because Leo Politi—have you seen his Bunker Hill show at Central Library yet?—was staff artist for this progressive journal of the motion picture set.

And say, if your pony came in this year, maybe you’d like a Script archive of your own?