POLA NEGRI

Hokitika Guardian, 27 February 1930, Page 8

POLA NEGRI

DIVORCE CASE WITHDRAW:

SECOND HONEYMOON

PAH IS, December 10. Even tlio grim and sordid surroundings oi tin; 4th Civil Court in tlio Paris Palais de Justicccan be a frame for romance.

it was tiiere that Miss Pola Negri, the him actress, was summoned to meet liar husband, Prince Mdivani, in the private room of the presiding judge to see if a reconciliation were possible. This formally must, in French law, precede the divorce decree lor which the couple' 1 had asked. As a rule, it remains a formality at which the partners look coldly at each other and curtly declare that nothing could ever bring them together again. Put Prince Mdivani and Miss Polr. Negri did not behave like the thousands of other couples who have occupied the same chairs before the cautious judge.

JUDGE SURPRISED

“Do you not love your wife any more? asked the judge, turning to Prince Mdivani.

“Of course I do!” came the reply, to the judge’s astonishment. Then, to complete his bewilderment Miss Negri declared.: “And I love him too, But he wants to interfere with my career by insisting on my leading a social life.” At this point the judge, probably for the first time in his life, rose and said: “Well, talk it over between you. I must go and see my clerk for a minute.”

When he came back reconciliation was complete. The happy couple shook hands with the judge, thanked him for his kindness, and said that they had no further need for his services or for those of their lawyers. They had decided not be divorced but to go and have a .second honeymoon instead. T saw Miss Negri this evening at her hotel in Paris with her husband Prince Mdivani. On the table in their sittingroom was a magnificent centrepiece of roses.

“We had been separated for eight months,” said the princess, “but we were never separated in our hearts, We could not get along without each other. We never .saw each other until we met in the divorce conciliation court on Friday, the 13th. lam not superstitious, but it was a lucky day for both of us.

After eight months’ separation my husband decided to let me follow my career. I shall do about two pictures a year and devote the rest of my time to my family life. We are going to celebrate our second honeymoon at St Moritz and live happily ever after.”

POLA’S LOVES

BERLIN, December 10. The news that Mass Pola Negri and her husband Prince Serge Mdivani, had decided not to be divorced has been heard with immense interest in the film star’s large circle of admirers in Germany.

“Serge,” said one of her colleagues to me this evening, “is a fascinating creature, divinely handsome, and I can very well understand that Pola has even at the last moment returned to him. A second honeymoon! Well, good luck to them!” After that benediction he went on to talk about Miss Negri's love affairs He said :

The first, as she has often told me me, was with one of her fellow-coun-trymen, a Polish artist, when she was unite young and long before she became fapious. He died from consumption, and I think Pola has never got over the loss.

ft was after she had made a name in PM and on the screen, and had come +n Perl in to play for the Tlfa Co., that

she married Count,'Dopiski, an officer ?" + hn Polisli Army, in 1920. T.rn years later divorced *'•<> t'onnt within a veaiA she went to Hollywood to plav for the Paramount '•"’vi aiiri soon people began to regard I G ,,n vlie Cbanfin as her fiancee. fhon Valentino came into her life. c 'ho nhvavs snvs that the two great lov- ! r ’s of her life were Valentino, who died ■*, mop and that artist whom she I b ,, ’"d when she was an unknown Polish girl. I Tfie news of Vn top tin Ms death was a i r,,, "hf fnl blow to her. She l was Mayfii" , ; n a scene at Hollywood when the news i

came, and she stopped and went straight to New York where lie died. Nine months afterwards she met Prince Mdivani, and the attraction ,vas mutual. They were married in France and went to live at the beautijul chateau which she had bought at Seraincourt, near Paris. Last February there was a terrible juarrel between them, and Pola accepted with relief an invitation to go to England where she played the principal part in a talking film to be shown for the first time next month under the title of “The Woman he Scorned.” 'Die quarrel , continued, and Pola took divorce proceedings against her husband on the ground of desertion. A month ago she returned to Franco from the United States, where she had gone to contest a lawsuit. And now comes this reconciliation and new honeymoon! It is very unexpected, but really, where love is concerned, even the people we know bes‘ give us the greatest surprises.