The New York herald., 1921-12-19
Vendetta With
Pola Negri Holds
One in Suspense
Falls i'm Love With Man She
Has Sworn to Kill-Thrill-
ing Picture.

STRAND-Miss Pola Negri In SVEN
detta," Howells productions with
Emit Jannings. written by George ia
coky and Leo Lasko, directed by ia
coby and released by Commonwealth
Pictures Corporation. Edited and
titled by James a. CreeIman.
At last Miss Pola Negri is in picture
with happy ending, though the dark
circles she draws around her eyes
seemed TO condemn her eternally to
tragic roles. The public will be glad TO
know that she Is just as competent at
smiling through to Il fortunate finish as
fshe is TO going down with her hair i'm
wild disorder Even that look around
the optics should not always call for her
to be stuck in the back with dagger in
order to ring down the curtain.
The story OF this Corsican noble
woman starts out darkly enough, after
she has melted her brother to challenge
a British naval officer to duel, simply
to provide a thrill for the bored visiting
seamen from II. NJ s. Victory, and with
have over such affairs in Paris. But the
challenged officer quite upsets every
thing by taking the duel to heart and
shooting the brother through the heart.
gated the ARRAY the fiery Mdrianna
swears over the dead body OF her
brother that she will dedicate her life
to seeking vengeance on this unknown
officer. after the fashion in Corsica OF
executing the law ones SELF with a
stletto.
From that point the German authors
carry their story along a we'll beaten
path by new variety OF means. and no
one experiences shock of surprise when
MdTtd,tn1 falls i'm love with the man she
IS seeking and has to meet that choice
between love and honor to which movie
fans are still not hardened. The epi-
sode wherein she meets her quarry as
a nurse in Alexandria, Egypt, during a
plague seemed to have been shortened
for the exigencies of the Strand pro-
sranme, thus making her love affair
seem more abrupt than n sudden fever.
But the story is carried along with
good suspense, for up to almost the
final moment, with its unexpected de-
nouement, it is uncertain whether the
Englishman will be mortally pinked in
the floating rib. On the whole, with
some picturesque scenes at Monte
Carlo, 1t is an excellent German pic
ture, calling for n good supply of breath.
And Mile. Negri again proves herself
the best Latin made In Germany. Mer-
curry is not more volatile. She hurls
herself into q mans embrace with an
abandon that makes Corsica nota BILE
for something besides Napoleon. This
handsome actress dresses uncommonly
well for a foreign star, and while her
lips move little on the screen, she can
shake hands with distinction.
Emil Jannings as a peasant servant
has little opportunity except TO carry
notes, breathe hard. thrust out his chin
whskers and generally look like Cali
ban on Setebos. Harry Liedtke and
Magnus Sitter stand out in q company
who do various things well-except that
they bounce remarkably when waltziug.
James a. Creelnan has edited the pic
ture with commendable discretion and
somehow slipped In subtitles that sound
human.
Miss Estelle Carey and Richard Bold
in solos, LISTS sixth Hungarian
Rhapsody" by the orchestra and Larry
Semon in THE Bell Hop his messiest
comedy. which means the messiest pos
slble. are other features OF the program.