POLA NEGRI

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 394, 30 June 1928, Page 23

POLA NEGRI

“EAST LYNNE” MELODRAMA PROVIDES STAR WITH ROLE A POLYGLOT CAST

“Three Sinners” is the title of Pola Negri’s new picture, j It is described as an aid to j her “dark, sultry beauty,” by J a Hollywood correspondent j ■ who viewed the premiers j screening. i

Pola Negri’s dark, sultry beauty has a new aid in “Three Sinners.” In a portion of the picture she wears a white wig, and looks very attractive in this guise. The story carries a hint of “Ease Lynne” and “Miss Multon,” old plays, in this: the heroine, a married woman in love with a man other than her husband, who neglects her for politics, is reported dead in a railway accident. Really she had left the train to go for a drive with the musician she J° ves - But she prefers to remain dead ’ rather than face her husband Years afterwards they meet in Paris, where she has become hostess at a gambling house. The husband who has remained faithful to the memory of his wife, finds this lady of the white wig so enchanting and so like his wife he asks her to marry him. She reveals herself. The husband repulses her, and she plights her faith to an American, and prepares to go to his country and begin life again, the American, of course, has a few stray millions. AH Americans have. Foreigners Featured The company surrounding lime Negf' 1 is a polyglot affair. She is herself a Pole with

ueisen a i-oie with an Albanian prince for a husband: Tullio Carminatti, who plays the musician with whom she is in love, is Italian—he was Duse’s leading man on her last visit to the United States, that tragic tour on which she died.

Anders Randolf, American, once physical instructor in the United States Army; Paul Lukas, Hungarian, and a distinguished actor in his own country; Olga Baklanova and Anton Vavevka, Russian—the former one of the important actors in the Moscow Art Theatre, who made a great impression when that body came to New York three years ago; William von Hardenberg, German, and Warner Baxter, Ivy Harris and some others of America.