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^][^ The famous screen writer tells ivhat she really thinks of the celluloid luminaries — andivhat they really said to her when she met them.
By Yiarriette Underbill
or companion. We do not understand German but when we were having luncheon with the Polish star in her dressing room over at the Famous studio we didn't care at all for the way she said "Raus !" to her secretary when she inadvertently came into the room. Pola is brilliant, perhaps arrogant, and amazingly witty. When she came to America a year ago; she
Alice Terry is utterly unlike the "Alice Ben Bolt" type you expect. She is baffling — with a rapier-like wit.
spoke hardly a word of English. Last March when we were on the coast we found to our astonishment that Pola not only speaks good English but that she also speaks and understands American in all its forms.
"I can say everything in your language excepting Waurel learn'," she announced one night when we were dining with her and with Charlie Chaplin. "What is a waurel leath ?" we inquired for everything that Pola says is interesting. "It's a thing you wear on your head when you have done something great !" "She means laurel wreath," explained Charlie. "Yes," she agreed, "waurel leath."
Why Pola Is Ostracized
ola didn't like the climate nor anything else in Hollywood and she didn't care for the dinky litrle restaurants where the man whose face is "vaguely familiar but you can't place it" turns out to be the soda clerk at the corner drug store; and the lady in pink cheese cloth dancing with him who was described by her partner as "a big movie star" is identified as one of the mob in Eric Von Stroheim's new picture.
As we were saying, these simple pleasures did not appeal to Pola ; so Pola was frowned on. Nobody approved of her ; she was ostracized — and it annoyed (Continued on page 103)
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Miss Underbill a d m ir c s Pola Negri more than any feminine star she ever met — and she explains why the Polish star likes being unpopular.