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Divorced. Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of three Georgian brothers (others are divorced from Film Actresses Pola Negri and Mae Murray); and Princess Louise Astor Van Alen Mdivani, Manhattan socialite; at The Hague, Holland. Prince Alexis, son of the late Tsar Nicholas' aide-de-camp, lost his standing as "unofficial ambassador from Georgia" at Paris, by a new non-aggression pact signed last fortnight by France and Soviet Russia...
...Woman Commands (RKO-Pathe). Apollonia Chalupez (Pola Negri) has a warm soft voice and an accent which, although she is a Polish gypsy, makes her sound almost exactly like Greta Garbo. This curious little picture?a combination of comedy, romance, mid-European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King...
...learned enough about acting to get a job with Max Reinhardt. In 1913 he performed in cinema for the first time, liked it so much he never went back to the stage. He went to Hollywood to direct Mary Pickford in Rosita nine years ago, after making himself and Pola Negri famous with Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night and Du Barry (called Passion...
...glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises...
...gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece. Her husband gives her money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions of the picture-one with Sessue Hayakawa and one with Pola Negri-this was the moment for the big scene where the heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel applies the iron to Tallulah Bankhead's front,* murmuring vicious cliches as he does so. A court room scene comes later...