The New York herald., 1922-06-12
PoIa Negri as
Russian JeWeSS
in Neu Picture
Mawson Film Below the Ant
arctic Circle Also Feature
at the Rialto.

RIALTO-Miss Pola Negri in "The
Devils Pnwn,o a Paramount picture
, written by John Brennert and John
Kraly.
The most important feature at the
Rialto this week is not the principal
photoplay. nor the graceful little stage
with rich Joseph Urban settings that
has displaced the former Greek temple
effect at this house. nor the fact that
a musician named c. Sharp Minor has
been engaged as organist here. 1t Is the
amusing and thrilling scenic, Below
the Antarctic Circle" which alone is
worth dash to this theater-especially
in this weather.
Sir Douglas Mawson. who led this ex-
pedition from Australia in 1911 that
spent four years In south polar regions,
needs no introduction. He and his as
sistants have collected the most mar
velous antarctic pictures ever shown,
revealing huge and picturesque ice
bergs that call to mind vivid passages
in The Ancient Mariner" assuming that
YOU haven't forgotten that poem through
being forced to memorize II n school.
The icebergs look impressive even with
out a bathing beauty on them, as one
enterprising photographer posed one
once on an Alaska glacier.
Here you see men leaning against a
terrible wind that sometimes reaches.
the velocity on Adele Land of 215 miles
an hour, making the Flatiron gale look
like the usual cheap Broadway imita-
ton. The penguins In solemn conclave
exhibit the original Of the Charlie Chap
lin walk and with their loose white.
little trousers and their cutaway black
markings look like convention Of Pick
wickians. Then one beholds the sea
lions. scratching themselves, regardless
OF injury to their expensive, fashionable
coats. 1t Is obvious that nature can be
wonderful even when frozen solid.
AS for the main photoplay, there
ought to be law against putting Miss
Pola Negri in modern society plays
She should be confined by statute to
spectacular historical features, where
her sort of glamorous vamping seems
more in order. Her latest pictures
which appear to have been her earliest
in point of actual chronological Sc
quence-remind one of the average
dub's golflng, by growing consistently
worse.
The edict of the Russian Cars that
a Jewess could not remain in a city
even to gain university education
without the baneful yellow ticket
seems too much a matter OF recent
history to cause chills to chase up and
down the average Americans spine.
When Miss Negri as a supposed Jewess
gets into great deal Of trouble by
using a dead Gentle girls name in Or
der to pursue the higher education,
with much rolling of the eyes, this nat
urally leads her to associate with fast
company, which. of course. has to be
capped off with an attempt at suicide
When the university professor of medi-
cine. about TO operate en- her to save
her life. discovers that this Is his own
child, there Is a fine howdy do. the chief
point in which is that most of the fuss
Is made over the professor and his
dizzy spell, while the girl is left lying
unnoticed on the operating table.
Much of the direction is of the old
fashioned type. which leads the actors
to stare straight ahead into vacancy
whenever an emotional crisis is reached.
Miss Negri. who appears to have done
her best work under Ernest Lubtsch,
looks in this picture less like Mona Lisa
than usual. and more like Mariucc.
Larry Semon in his latest comedy
"a Pair of Kings" is quite amusing
and worth while seeing as the PEN
gums.