Motion Picture Magazine (Feb-Jul 1924)

,„,,.,DTION PICTURi m I MAEAZINE A Ride WitK Pola Negri {Continued from page 30) I think so too. The Carmen that she plays in that picture was the real gypsy of Prosper Merimee's story — the vicious, lustful, primitive little slattern who would slit a throat for a dollar. It was not especially a popular picture. Gave too great a jolt to our conventions. The usual Carmen of the stage is a frolicsome young person in red silk stockings who sometimes isn't quite a lady. That's what we expected in "Gypsy Blood." And speaking of this and that, Pola spoke of American girls. "There are no other such beautiful girls in the world. Once in a long time in Poland you will see a really beautiful peasant girl. She is always natural without make-up, and is lovely beyond rivalry. Your girls are all manufactured beauties; but they are amazing. The first night I went to the Follies my eyes almost popped out of my head. I kept grabbing Mr. Zukor by the coat sleeve and gasping, 'Good heavens, there is another one!' I didn't imagine there had been that many beautiful girls in the whole world since the world began." At sunset we left the car and \ye were standing on a hill watching the dying day. The distant peaks of the Santa Susanna range glowed like coral in the distance with the Santa Inez peaks seen faintly thru the haze. Far away on the sky line we could see the snow cap of old San Antonio ; while nearer, Sister Elsie Peak and the cross of good San Ysidro looked down upon the fading day like a benediction. On the slopes of the hill where we stood the acacia trees flamed with golden blossoms and the mountain sage filled the air with a faint musty fragrance. Solemnly the rose glow faded. A wave of pure violet color that changed to amber and dun and then to the color of old sherrj' wine swept across the precipices of the Big Tujunga in royal pageant. It was a sight to fill the soul. Pola began to talk of religion. "For four years," she said, "I have studied theosophy. It has changed my outlook on life. When you understand that we are only passing thru a phase when we live and suffer in this life, then we realize that nothing matters. It is all a moment in a life of thousands of years. You know, en passant. "Without this philosophy I should not have been able to have endured life. "I have several times given what I called the story of my life to various American publications which seem to have a taste for such things. But believe me — no. I have never told the real story. And I never shall. It is too bitter and too sad. "My life has been just one long tragedy. They say that one has to suffer to become an artist. Well, then, I should be a great artist. 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