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POLA NEGRI
OLA NEGRI is commonly recognized as one of the leading dramatic actresses on the screen. Her talent, displayed in foreign-made photoplays shown in the United States before she herself arrived here in 1922 to become a star in Paramount pictures, created a great public furore.
Her first American-made picture was the screen version of Robert Hichens' "Bella Donna," a Paramount production ideally suited to her somewhat unusual beauty, and her talent for rising to tremendous emotional heights under the stress of dramatic situations.
Miss Negri's real name is Appollonia Chalupez. Two causes led to the adoption of the nom de theatre by which she is known on the screen. As a child she was passionately fond of the writings of Ada Negri, the late Italian poetess, and adopted her name for professional use as a tribute of veneration, and because of its euphonious sound. "Appollonia" being too long for easy pronunciation, she contracted it to "Pola."
Bromberg, Poland, is the birthplace of the noted actress. Her father, Ian Chalupez, dealt in fabrics, but made little money. His death in 1905 left the family in depleted finances, but the mother nevertheless managed to obtain the means to send Pola to a school for girls conducted by Countess Platen at Warsaw. It was decided when she was still very young that she was to be an actress, and when seventeen she entered a dramatic school at Warsaw, completing the regular three-year course in one.
She then made her professional debut at the Kleines Theatre in the Polish capital, playing an important role in "Sodom's End," written by Herman Sudermann. Her next engagement was at the former Imperial Theatre at Warsaw where she continued playing until shortly before the German occupancy in 1916. Max Rein
Pola Negri is looking over the "rushes" of her first American-made film and discussing the results with her director, George Fitzmaurice.
hardt, one of the greatest European stage technicians, engaged her to play the leading role in "Sumurun," a pantomime play. She there demonstrated for the first time her ability to depict emotion without the vehicle of the spoken word.
She then wrote, directed and acted in a picture called "Love and Passion," which created a sensation in spite of its inadequate lighting effects and deficient setting. It was produced in a photographer's studio, and the furniture required for it came from Miss Negri's own home. She next enacted "Du Barry," shown in the United States under the name of "Passion."
She is five feet four inches tall and weighs, 120 pounds. She was married to Count Eugene Domska, a Polish noble, but her domestic life was unhappy and she obtained a divorce after a year.
She lives in Hollywood, and has but one hobby aside from her passionate devotion to poetry, horseback riding.
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