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...their class. Officiating at these ceremonies was the loading athlete of the class, Rand, who had conceived clever epigrams for the recipients. He awarded one to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt '09 on the basis of being the "democratic goat getter," but the real reason was because he brought back Pola Negri from his trip of exploration last year...
Divorced. "Prince" Serge Mdivani, sleekest of Russia's "Marrying Mdivanis," divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri; by Mary McCormic, operasinger; in Los Angeles. Grounds: cruelty (he threatened to "maim and disfigure" her, called her "terrible names," locked her in the bathroom, paid no bills). Two days later Singer McCormic heard that a hotel hostess named Grace null was in a Los Angeles newspaper office hawking details of the property settlement. Raging, she sped thither, slapped the informant soundly. Prince Serge defended Miss Williams: "She had a perfect right. . . . I have given her the keeping of all my private papers...
...After her maid positively assured them that Miss Miller had no extra underthings in her room, a stocking and a step-in were sent out, autographed "With love & kisses from Marilyn." Second prize was split between the couples who brought back Fanny Brice's brassiére and Pola Negri's stepin. Other actresses who yielded underclothes: Hope Williams, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jean Arthur...
...Annabella, half ingénue, half adult, whom he found for Le Million. There is stubborn-mouthed, idealistic Georges Rigaud and Raymond Cordy with the sliding, friendly black eyes, the temper that all his huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays in July 14 one of the funniest drunks ever seen. There are half a dozen marvelous character actors whom Clair uses to fill Frenchmen. French critics found that he had used all this to achieve "poetic aura,' "poetic realism...
...Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract with Osso Films. Last year Clair called her back for July 14. He gets along much better with amiable, unambitious Pola Illery, the Rumanian who plays his strumpets...