Word: chalupec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...
...Christian sufferings Apollonia was sainted. Still popular, she gives her name today to many a Catholic in eastern Europe, such as Polish Actress Pola Negri, born Apollonia Chalupec. But her greatest popularity springs from the fact that she has become a patron saint of dentists.* Last week, to show that it had not waned, no less than 500 French dentists made a pilgrimage on St. Apollonia's feast day to one of her chief shrines, at La Gaude near Nice. In the parish church which contains her statue the dentists attended mass, then made merry in the village...
...Terra). Last spring Paris-Soir aired the rumor that Adolf Hitler's middleaged, platonic fancy had turned from red-haired 29-year-old cinemactress Leni Riefenstahl (who in three years as his favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special pains...
...hollow-eyed Pola Negri, oldtime cinemactress whose professional peak was reached in 1920 in Passion, found herself in serious difficulties with peppery little German Minister for Propaganda Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. In the belief that Cinemactress Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec) was a Polish Jewess, Minister Goebbels refused her permission to act in Germany. Suddenly this order was overruled by the Führer himself. "Investigation," read the official communiqué, "instituted by the Reichsführer has established that Pola Negri is Polish and therefore Aryan" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935). Pink with pleasure, Actress Negri cried: "The whole world...