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Herbert Howe, Los Angeles Times, L. A., Cal., June 15, 1924.
Pola Negri
Paramount‘s Great Emotional Actress
(...) Motion Picture News, June 2, 1923
& Pola Negri
(...) Photoplay Cover, March 1924
& Pola Negri
(...) Motion Picture Cover, April 1925
& This picture was taken in the Negri domicile in Beverly
Hills. However, Miss Negri also maintains a suite at the Hotel
Ambassador in Los Angeles proper, where she stays
most of the time.
(...) Motion Picture, Aug. 1924
„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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