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Into the army went David Mdivani, ex-Georgian prince, ex-husband of Mae Murray, ex-brother-in-law of Barbara Hutton, ex-brother-in-law of Pola Negri...
...fight over the township's delirious attempt to collect some $14,000,000 in personal taxes from her, Miss Duke announced she would sue the township for "many thousands of dollars" for the trouble they gave her. Sued in Manhattan for an eight-year-old hotel bill was Pola Negri, imperious siren of the silents, who used to do her ogling all tangled up in jewels, ermine and general fabulousness (see cut). Now she said she had been living on the "charity of friends...
Sabotage. S. K. reports for the first time several sabotage successes by the underground, including the blowing up of the torpedo factory at the Pola naval base. But the group's sabotage was hampered by Fascist laws forbidding workers to shift jobs. The group asked S. K. if his friend Pinelli could put the necessary transfers through the war ministry. Pinelli stared out the window a while, then said yes. Soon his fine Italian hand had set off the biggest of the Matteotti's explosions: of the buried oil reservoirs at the Spezia naval base...
...Pola Negri, 41, oldtime siren of the silents, and Negrophile Nancy Cunard, the British shipping family's 45-year-old problem child, tangled with immigration officials in New York harbor. They finally let Pola in despite the fact her papers were out of order. She had come from the Riviera. Nancy, who had come from Havana with no visa at all, settled on Ellis Island to await the next boat to England...
...Riviera castle near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president...