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Central Square, continuous-"Loves of an Actress". Pola Negri in her first sound picture...
...Pola Negri (Appollonia Chalupez), famed Polish cinemactress, rode horseback in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. With her rode her husband, Prince Serge Mdivani. When a clattering motorcycle startled her mount, Actress Negri tumbled off. Surgeons found serious injuries but pronounced her safe...
...Wright had been suspected of being himself, and also William Lyon Phelps, John Galsworthy, Dr. Joseph Collins, Pola Negri, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, "Ma" Ferguson, Carl Van Doren, Robert Bridges...
Loves of an Actress is a tragedy, with Pola Negri reclining on a soft couch most of the time. She loves them all-bankers, counts, newspaper owners-but, deep down, she is disgusted with men. Then along comes a lean-hipped young diplomat (Nils Asther) and the Lady of the Couch is stricken with love-at-first-sight. "What does it matter?" she cries, "A man-a woman-before them the highway of life." But, alas for the highway, a rejected count threatens to reveal her past and ruin the young diplomat's career. Death comes to the couch...
Three Sinners. There are more than three sinners. In fact, all the leading characters, except the little child, sin. But they do it nicely. Pola Negri, as the wife of a German count, takes a train from Berlin to Vienna, meets a musician, stops off to spend a night of love. Soon she hears that her train was wrecked before it reached Vienna and that she was reported dead. So, seizing opportunity by the hair, she puts on a snow white wig, changes her name, becomes a woman of adventure. Later, her husband meets her, does not recognize her; cinemagoers...