Movie Weekly (1922)

Movie WeekcY "A Sincerely Passionate Woman. Pola Negri Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of articles that read the true character of popular stars by their face. (Rodolph Valentino was the first.) Don't miss this series. It tvill introduce you frankly to your favorite, just as though you were meeting him or her face to face. CROWN of the head— indicates by its flatness a lack of veneration and spirituality, a strong impetus towards self-preservation, a desire to fight and argue for individual rights, and strong animal tendencies. The broadness of the head just below the crown shows constructive ability of a high order. Forehead — square over the eyes indicates executive power, intensity of j>urpose, great physical energj', excellent memory and a magnetic talker. Eyebrows — ^heavily marked and long, indicate intellectual ability, physical vigor, the wave, or the risef" near the nose, shows irritability and resentment, drawn down on the outer comers they mean ambition, love of argxmient and a tendency to fight. Eyes — the most remarkable feature in Pola Negri's face. Large, beautiful, deep-set and wide apart, they indicate passion, penetration, analysis, will power to a certain extent, though in their priraitiveness they strongly show a lack of control. They also have power almost hypnotic. Pola Negri Nose-rather broad shows caution, turned up at the point indicates a loving natttre and a fondness for pleasure, an artistic nature, one of original speech and action, qnick-witted and sarcastic The wide nostrils indicate sensuousness. Mouth — by its largeness it indicates a generous nature, its lips show passion, temper and sensitiveness, the fullness gathered in the outer corners show* power, the thin upper lip indicates a quick, violent temper, the fullness in the lower lip shows a desire for affection, a love of virtue and a maternal instinct. Slightly turned up, the comers mean an ability to be witty, humorous and optimistic. Chin — the breadth of the chin indicates physical strength, recuperative power, perseverance and tenacity of pun>ose. The width and depth of its bony structure shows a passionate nature, quick of action, energetic and forceful, affections easily aroused and hard to control. The entire expression of the face, the personality thiat it suggests, is that of a sincerely passionate woman, kind, sensitive, dangerous if aroused, but capable of deep love. It is a primitive rather than a subtle face, the face of an artist who can act creatures of wild moods, who can make you feel the emotions of fear, hate and passion. A woman of vitality, sincerity and temperament, she has through the innate instinct of the artist the ability to create moods. The expression of her face in the picture is totally unselfconscious, detached, thinking, feeling, a rare enough gift that power of suggestion in these days, when actresses are made, not bom. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Continued from page 7) does reach the point where he must realize that the highest of our creations do not evolve from within ourselves. There comes a day when a thought is projected like a bullet through your brain. That inspiration is from the beyond. It has come from on high. Some spirit has given it to us. "Now that fact is of tremendous importance to the makers of motion pictures! "It must not be forgotten that there are only a very few spirits who know anything about the motion pictiu^e business. It is such a new enterprise altogether, and a development of the last quarter of a century, that most of its pioneers are still alive, I suppose. The proportion of living motion picture men to dead ones is very large. A hundred years from now you would have a greater reservoir to draw from, because more will have died. Thus the motion picture business is like spiritualism in that it is just beginning to find itself. You have very few veterans on the other side. "But even now there is a possibility of helping hands being extended, to the motion picture men not only, but to every phase of creative effort. In more elevated moments of inspiration we can contact with higher intelligences. We all know that there Ls an ebb and flow of inspiration. Occasionally I am convinced we can draw down mighty thoughts from mighty thinkers — artists, painters, musicians, poets who have passed away. All such material could be utilized in making better motion pictures, I should imagine. There is certainly that definite possibility and unquestionably it fits in with the general spiritual hypothesis." There was also the possibility of motion picture stars getting spiritual assistance in delineating great roles. The wonderful actors and actresses of the past — Modjeska, Ellen Terry, Robert Keene, Booth, Barrett, Macready, Forrest — all the geniuses of the footlights might be summoned through medium ship, and , their help and inspiration gained by modem players. Sometimes, when one is listening to such an eminent scholar as Doyle discussing miracles of spiritualism in matter of fact terms, one is apt to rub one's eyes to be sure one is not dreaming. It all seems so preposterous. Motion pictures of spirit land! Stills of your dead great grandfather! Getting actors and actresses, long mouldy and rotten in their graves, to coach you in a part ! It sounds like stuff and nonsense, doesn't it? And yet, for a moment, pause and reflect! What would your old school days' friend George Washington have told you, if you predicted to him the steam railroad, the electric railroad, the modern ocean liner, the subway, the skyscraper, the telephone, the telegraph, the phonograph, the airplane, the submarine, the radio, or the moving picture ? You know what George would have thought about you! He would have said it was all stuff and nonsense, and turned back to his chess board. With such a record of achievement behind us, it is not wise to sneer too loudly at these men who insist that they have spoken face to face, voice to voice with their dead. Some of them rank as the foremost scientists of their time — Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Crookes, Charles Richet, Lombroso, Von Schrenk Notzing and a cloud of other witnesses. In every land and clime, reports are rising constantly of the marvek wrought in seances by mediums in the condition known as trance. Inquire quietly of your neighbors and you are certain to find some one who has had a ghostly experience they cannot explain. The subject is in the air. The belief is spreading. It may all be stuff and nonsense, that is true. But again, there may be something in it. .\t all events, this much is true — ^that some of the cleverest men of science in the world declare they have seen these spirit forms ; that there are more than a thousand spirit photographs in existence, and that Von Schrenk Notzing nd his assistants did actually succeed in recording some ot the seance phenomena on motion picture film. Now, Sir Arthtrr predicts that the day is coming when these authentic reports will become the conwnon property of mankind, exhibited in every movie theatre in the land. It is something worth waiting for, anyway! (/« a subsequent issue, Mr. Frikcll, who is one of the best known spirit investigators in America, and who lias exposed many fraudulent mediums, will describe an exciting seance in which he supervised an attempt to get motion pictures of the spooks for "Movie Weekly." Don't miss it!) Lover^s Delight (Contitmed from page 9) "Your Majesty," she answered, "has given him no other name by which I may call him." The King lost no time in conferring on the child the title of His Grace, the Duke of St. Albans. The people of England adored Nellie for many reasons. She never meddled in politics, never forgot her old friends, and there was Something in her frank recklessness, her easy generosity, her invariable good temper, her ready wit and above all, her amazing indiscretions, that fascinated them. Charles II followed the Puritan Cromwell, the Will Hays of his time, and the people as well as the court were hungry for gaiety and the joy of living . . . What is the secret of the extraordinary charm that after centuries comes down to us perfumed with romance — n charm so individual, so alluring, that their names have a glamor and a fascination. There seems to exist an enchanting fragrance in these bewitching vamps. Their very pictures flirt with one. These sensational vamps of history, were women of intelligence as well as passion, and most of them played the game of; love fairly . . . They cultivated their minds as well as their bodies, understood politics, often used them, and, in a way. made their royal boudoirs an anteroom to Parliament. (Continued next week)