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...Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose photograph was deceitfully enclosed...
...People first began talking about Ernst Lubitsch when Pola Negri was getting popular. He directed her in the pictures that made her reputation?Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night. With her he made Madame Du Barry, called Passion in the U. S., which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with...
...Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola Negri, Alice Terry and Claire Luce among her shipmates...
Soprano Mary McCormic, native of Amarillo, Tex., protegee of Mary Garden, sang Juliet sketchily. A few days previously she had announced her engagement to Prince Serge Mdivani, the about-to-be-divorced husband of Cinemactress Pola Negri. Said she: "When I met the Prince I knew I was headed toward Heaven...
Actor Milton Sills is the describer of leading cinemactors and cinemactresses. He calls Pola Negri "frank, tempestuous"; Janet Gaynor "radiant"; Ernest Torrence "rugged"; John Gilbert "young, reckless." He says that Adolphe Menjou has "fascinating wickedness," that Emil Jannings is the "master craftsman." He admits that the screen still awaits "its Duse and its Booth...