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...Secret Hour. There is no denying the cinemart of Pola Negri, but it is a shame to see her put into cotton stockings and handing out coffee in a San Francisco lunch room. Nonetheless, JLuigi (Jean Hersholt), potent orange grower, is attracted by Waitress Pola. He writes her a letter inviting her to his farm, enclosing a photograph of his handsome house man, Jack. Then he gets full of giggle water and drives his car into a creek while going to meet Waitress Pola at the railroad station. Of course, Waitress Pola inevitably finds the arms of good-looking Jack...
...palatable dish with all the ingredients of good drama, well served, constitutes the piece de resistance at present on the Metropolitan menu. In fact it is hardly possible that Pola Negri of "The Woman on Trial" would not whet the jaded appetite of the most sophisticated of the devotees of the silver screen. And jaded indeed does the appetite of the average spectator at the average motion picture become; picture succeeds picture, plot follows plot with an abysmal shallowness of invention, and a dispiriting similarity of spirit. It almost seems as if the chief advance of the art were...
...scenes from the Place de la Concorde and the Latin Quarter. It seems unnecessary to examine the plot further. In spirit, to use that nebulous word, it differs, however, from the other fruit on the family tree. That new spirit is due without any doubt to the presence of Pola Negri. She is not pretty the bathing beauty sense, yet it is perhaps her face which gives the tone to the whole picture. There is in it a look of passion and tragedy without which "The Woman on Trial" might be interchanged with any other similar picture...
...Pola Negri...
Hotel Imperial (Pola Negri). In Austria, during the troubled days of the War, a beauteous chambermaid exerted profound influence upon the East European situation by confessing to the Russian invaders that the Austrian hero was in her room at a certain embarrassing hour, hence could not have murdered the Russian spy, nor have stolen the important papers. For this strategic fib the Austrians give her the freedom of the army, and the hero. Again Pola Negri finds herself decorating a Hollywood nursery-rhyme...