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...tells the familiar bullring yarn-the matador who becomes famed and forgets his childhood sweetheart. The sweetheart saves his life in the final bullfight scene, wholly preposterously. All this Miss Dean whips into fresh and agile entertainment. There are not many actresses equipped for such a task. Forbidden Paradise. Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch, playing again on the same team that made Passion, are inevitably excellent. They chose a play called The Czarina in which Doris Keane starred not so long ago. The story is an amiable satire on the delights and drawbacks of Royalty. Rod La Rocque plays...
Lily of the Dust. The German. Hermann Sudermann, cornered considerable applause when he wrote The Song of Songs. Later, Edward Sheldon brought it to life behind the footlights. In the natural course of events, its next metamorphosis was into celluloid. Famous Players were the alchemists ; Pola Negri the heroine; and Lily of the Dust the title...
...tampering with titles these many years. Yet the manufacturers contend that thereby is their product the more easily and widely marketed. Therefore, Lily of the Dust. Which simply goes again to prove that the cheaper the materials involved in the manufacture of an article, the greater the profit. Pola Negri gives a perfect performance of Pola Negri. But as Sudermann's Lilly Czepanek (tall, fair and willowy), old friends of the book will disagree with her. Yet for the millions who want Pola Negri, it is to be said that she contributes one of the finest performances...
...circles with him because of her underbreeding, the wily villain sends the innocent girl to Paris for culture. This situation can be straightened out only when Hero and Villain, again in the north woods, peel off 14 overcoats and fight. Men. This is all woman, for it Is all Pola Negri. It is her best picture to date, although it does follow beaten trails through Montmartre. She plays with all the matchless glow of her temperament the role of a young woman who hates all men for what a few of them have done to her, until the right young...
Ever since Pola had the temerity to throw herself at the American people in an imported play entitled Passion, it has been impossible to find theatres large enough to show her pictures. Accordingly reflection? that neither she nor her pictures are what they used to be are rather a waste of ink and paper...