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Herbert Howe, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., June 15, 1924.

Pola Negri is at present working on „Flower of the

Night,“ a story written especially for her by Joseph Hergesheimer.

It is a romantic tale, laid in California setting. Prince

Troubetzkoy is her leading man.

(...) Picture-Play, Oct. 1925, detail

„He is the motion-picture“

Editorial content. „POLA NEGRI PICKS GREAT

      ARTISTS OF SCREEN; TWELVE PLACED ON NOTED

      STAR‘S LIST

      Lillian Gish Chosen as Supreme Actress; Charles

      Chaplin Heads Directorial Group; Says

      There Are but Six Real Players on Screen“

      Drawings. „POLA NEGRIS OWN LITTLE HALL OF FAME“

      „Pola‘s Gallery

      BY HERBERT HOWE

      POLA NEGRI‘S dramatic invasion of Hollywood

was probably the most spectacular event in the history

of the most spectacular of modern towns.“ (...)

      „Amid the clash of arms, with criticism volleying and

thundering about her, the proud Pola withdrew

to her castle, yanked up the drawbridge and ignobly

webt.“ (...)

      „Her views as to the art and artists of our screen are

particularly interesting for several reasons.

      First, because Negri is a shrewd and brilliant critic

of the art of acting. Second, because she speaks

her mind without fear or favor – even though she may weep

later. Third, because her opinions offer a continental

estimate of our Hollywood art collection.

      CATER TO PUBLIC

      ,The trouble with screen art in America,‘ says Pola briefly,

,is standardization.

      ,The trouble with most of the players is that they act

according to the book etiquette.

      ,The public worships personality, so it is natural

that a player, thinking of money, should think of personality

before art. 

      ,An actress playing what she considers a bad woman

does so with an apologetic air. She says, ,I‘m playing

this terrible creature, but I want you distinctly to understand

that I‘m a lady.‘ To make her appear so, sympathy

is injected and the bad woman becomes worse!

      ,There‘s the fear of being thought vulgar. Chaplin has

been accused of vulgarity. He dares to show life

without powder on its nose. That‘s why he has triumphed

over personalities.‘“ (...)

      Pola Negri‘s selection of the great artists of the screen,

as might be expected, has little respect for tradition

or box-office records. In delivering her ukase she made

several sharp observations.“ (...)

      „POLA‘S LIST

      The members of Negri‘s screen Legion of Honor,

in the order she gave them to me, are:

      Lillian Gish, Norma Talmadge, Mary Philbin, Ramon

Novarro, John Barrymore, Rudolph Valentino,

Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Rex Ingram, D. W. Griffith,

Dimitri Buchoertski and Cecil B. De Mille.“ (...)

      „She does not consider Chaplin as an actor but

as a director, the greatest creator in pictures.“ (...)

      „CHAPLIN THE CREATOR

      ,Charlie Chaplin is the great director because he reveals

life with the clearest vision. He works from within out,

logically from cause to effect. He never falls into into the

common error of picture directors of shifting to effect.

I do not rate him as Hamlet or any other of the characters

that have been suggested for his interpretation.

I would as quickly think of Beethoven as a pianist. Chaplin

is the great picture composer. He was born to the

motion-picture. He is the motion-picture.

      ,I think of Chaplin simply as a creator.‘“

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