Word: pola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
...specialist in the private life of Adolf Hitler is the lurid daily Paris-Soir, which last month published details of the Führer's supposed romance with the old-time cinemactress, Pola Negri (TIME, April 26). This week Paris-Soir was at it again, this time with a still more lurid story of what has become of Pola Negri's reputed predecessor, muscular, mountain-climbing Leni Riefenstahl. During the Olympic Games last year Cinemactress Riefenstahl had complete charge of all official newsreel pictures, was expected to make at least one full-length film. 20 short features...
...Socialist Soviet Republic, at least 20 more "spies and wreckers" were "completely destroyed" last week for aiming "at the establishment of an independent republic under the protection of a certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with a conspiracy to overthrow Communism by helping Germany and Japan defeat Russia...
This episode brought Miss Negri much valuable publicity, several jobs, before she slipped into comparative obscurity again. Last week resting on the French Riviera after finishing a German version of Madame Bovary, Pola Negri had cause to be grateful to the name of Hitler once more. Acting on a tip from Paris, the wildly sensational London Sunday Referee printed a startling story: recently Actress Negri had admitted to her mother that she was having an affair with someone in Germany, and added, "I can say no more than that he is a very very famous person." In Berlin...
Spreading of these stories, plus the revival of the old one about Miss Negri's Jewish blood, caused Handsome Adolf to burst into tears. Sobbed he: "The slanderers! The slanderers!" Later he was reported to have sent secret agents to Poland to prove once and for all Pola Negri's Aryan ancestry...