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...Sert's first wife was a great-grandniece of Composer Franz Liszt. She accompanied Stylist Gabrielle Chanel to Hollywood last spring. The present Senora Sert was once Princess Mdivani of the much-married Mdivanis of Georgia (South Russia). (Brother David married Cinemactress Mae Murray; Brother Serge married Cinemactress Pola Negri, then Soprano Mary McCormic; Brother Alexis married Socialite Louise Astor Van Alen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: School Builder | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...sister Louise married Prince Alexis Mdivani last fortnight, thus becoming sister-in-law to Prince Serge Mdivani who was divorced last April from Cinemactress Pola Negri, and Prince David Mdivani who married Cinemactress Mae Murray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators do not have to understand French to follow the story. Best shot : the singer stimulating a crowd to sing while both men peddle their music in the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 29, 1930 | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Suing for Divorce. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, Polish cinemactress; from Prince Serge Mdivani; in Paris for the second time in two years. Named: Mary McCormic, soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Sued. Princess Serge (Pola Negri) Mdivani, famed cinemactress: for $5.000; by Beltran Masses, Spanish painter; in Paris. Senor Masses alleged that Pola Negri had ordered a $5,000 portrait of herself, that she had specified a background to contain a dim, spectral Rudolph Valentino, that when the portrait was finished she refused to pay. Pola Negri said Senor Masses had begged for permission to paint her. He refused her offer to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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