Word: negri
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Sirs: I found to my great surprise that my age was increased four years by you in the article, "Thrills, Spills & Pola Negri" [Nov. 20]. The magazine stated that I was 69 years old. In reality, according to my birth certificate and passport, I was born on the 31st of December...
...film's choicest surprise occurs in the last reel or so, when Hayley blithely outwits 69-year-old Pola Negri, femme fatale of the silent era. In her first film since 1943, Temptress Negri, coddling her pet cheetah aboard an improbable yacht, plays an eccentric millionairess with a passion for jewels. Her bizarre, spoofing comeback points up a new worldliness in Disney, who has obviously decided that what was grand passion for Grandpa is just good clean fun for the kids...
...Hollywood has gone from Pola to Polaroid," she declared not long ago. But a real star always saves up a twinkle or two for her twilight years, and last week sometime Actress Polo Negri, 65, femme fatale of many a silent movie, was back in the news. In San Antonio, Texas, it was announced that the late heiress Margaret West had willed Pola, her longtime friend and house guest, jewels, furniture, lifetime use of a San Antonio mansion and an income of $1,250 a month. Then, in Los Angeles, Walt Disney Productions announced that Pola is going to make...
...Piccola Eva. a story about slavery in harsh old Kentucky. The premiere production of Luigi Ferrari Tre-cate's Zio Tom (Uncle Tom) at the Rome Opera House celebrated the centenary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, but Rome found it a masterpiece of contemporary social realism. "Poveri negri!" (Poor Negroes), enthusiasts shouted from the balconies, and next morning the Rome press chimed in. "A great opera and a great story," said II Messaggero. "The fight for freedom belongs to eternity, and where could it be better fought than on the stage of the Rome Opera House...
...program notes had their problems. The English translator, true to his Stowe, wrote "niggers" for "negri" (which means Negroes in Italian). "This is the usual meeting place of all the niggers," read the notes, thereby offending everybody. Most Americans are now aware that Negroes consider Uncle Tomism their most regressive trait, and it was surprising to see the long-suffering old quisling revived once again as liberty's champion...