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...Austrian Tyrol with shiny-nosed Leni Riefenstahl and world-famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider in the lead. Last week "non-Aryan" Skimeister Schneider was under Nazi lock & key in his native Austria. Fräulein Riefenstahl, last spring supposed to have been replaced in Hitler favor by Cinemactress Pola Negri (TIME, June 21), was meanwhile considered reestablished in her Fü:hrer's platonic affections...
...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...
Madame Bovary (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...
Last week U. S. cinemaudiences saw a charmingly enameled Pola, matronly to the points of her double chin, die the remorseful death of fickle Madame Bovary. She was no longer the dashing, fiery Pola of Passion and Gypsy Blood. The 1937 Madame Bovary loves nice things, has a roving eye, a fat medico husband. Her eye gets to roving before her husband has had time to get down to the business of properly neglecting her, and the story, though warranted Aryan, is far from Flaubert...
...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...