The Washington times., 1923-02-27
ARTIST To SEND
LOVE ENVOY
To POLA
Actress Said to Be Seriously
GrieVed Over Talk Of
ChapIin's Rival.
By WILLIAM PARKER.
Cosmopolitan News Service.

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, Feb. 81
It was persistently rumored in
Hollywood today that Tada Styka.
the young and celebrated Polish
artist, was sending a love emissary
to Pola Negri to intercede in his be-
half, and with q hope that Miss
Negri will postpone her marriage to
Charlie Chaplin until Styka can lay
his humble apologies at her feet.
The Countess Appolonia Dombska,
which is the official name of Miss
Negri, is said to be seriously grieved
Mt Styka, and that, some of her
Hollywood friends today were in
clined to believe, they said, was
what prompted her engagement to
Charlie Chaplin.
Miss Negri's pique, It was said,
came about when Styka uncere.
montously withdrew from exhibition
the portrait he had painted of her.
II shall keep 1t as q memento of
the things that might have been"
Styka has been quoted as saying.
Fellow artist-admirers of Styka in
Hollywood were violently partisan
in their attitude today. While none
OF them would allow the use of his
name, those who were interviewed
declared Styka was justified in his
act by reason of Miss Negri having
turned to Chaplin at time when
all continental Europe was expect
ing to hear of her engagement to
Styka.
Sounds Familiar.
There appears to be some doubt
In Hollywood regarding the 'tante-
a. -
artists admitted the name sounded
familiar, but none could give any,
thing of his history.
Inquiry at the Motion Picture Art
Directors Association brought the
reply that nobody by the name of
Styka is working on any lot in
Hollywood
It was explained that Styka was
supposed to be an internationally
known portrait painter. But still
no information was Forthcoming
about him.
Something of Styka was learned
from Grant Carpenter, an officer
Of the Screen Writer'S Guild of the
Authors League of America, author
of several volumes of Chinese
stories, and scenario writer of
note. Carpenter has an extensive
acquaintance among artists at Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and Car
mel-by-the-Sea. He is now gather
ing data for a book on Personal
Recollections OF the Famous Paint
er, De Longpre."
81 have long heard of Tada
Styka," said Carpenter, 'and he has
o number Of notable pictures to his
credit
When this statement was re-
peated to friends Of Chaplin they
Immediately demanded the names
of the pictures. '"They can't be
anymore notable than some OF
Charles pictures" declared Ed
ward A. Billy, for several years per-
Bonal representative for Charlie
Chaplin. 81 never saw any more
notable pictures than Charles,
The Face on the Barroom Floor
The Vagabond,' and "A Dogs
Life"
There was an eloquent silence at
the Chaplin studio when state
ment was requested.
At the UNCOVERED two-story
0tucco residence, where Miss Negri
IL living in Hollywood a sphynx-
like silence also was maintained.
Miss Negri, she is not at home"
said the trim little feminine Sec
rotary with the French accent.
The love emissary reported to be
en- route west to intercede for Styka
II said to be man well known in
the cultural life of the country, a
man whose name is familiar in
every home sufficiently prosperous
to support a photograph.
Come around tomorrow and I
will give you not only the name of
this man." promised a mutual
friend of Styka and Miss Negri,
''but I will give you the date of his
arrival in Los Angeles"