POLA NEGRI AND G.B.S.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 526, 1 December 1928, Page 9

POLA NEGRI AND G.B.S.

TO LUNCH IN LONDON STAR “THRILLED TO DEATH” (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Thursday. Pola Negri came from Paris under her husband’s name. She is lunching with Bernard Shaw to-morrow. Pola says she is thrilled to death. Shaw says he has no emotional reaction whatever. Pola says: “I’ll tell you everything about it.” Shaw says, “Let her.’ ’ Pola says she is going to drive in the country before lunch in order to overcome her nervousness, for the purpose of luncheon. She will plead with Mr. Shaw to release one of his plays for a scenario. By her arrival in London without a storm of advance publicity, Pola achieved a triumph of notoriety. The number of Press callers at her West End hotel to-day has not been equalled by any visiting star. On the subject of eating, Mr. Shaw had a tilt at the New Health Society. He was invited to to-night’s festival dinner at the Mayfair Hotel. He sent a postcard: “No, hang it all, not dinner. A fast if you like. But what congruity is there between the new health and the same old dinner. Do you expect me to sit there, the sole sober man, watching you running up doctors’ bills ? ’’The society will be laughed out of existence.”