The Denver Jewish news., 1923-03-21
POLA NEGRI-A TRANSLATION
OF PAULA SCHWARTZ
BY GERALD GINZBERG.

WertheimS : store IN Berlln came 10
America in January.
Paula did not come over to take
II look at the big stores in New York
for the Zenefit of Wertheim's. Neither
| is she on buying expedition. At the
present rate of exchange on marks
Paula would have to empty all the
cash registers in Werthcm's in order
to buy dozen linen handkerchiefs
here.
Paula's Huge Contract.
Those who have met her in Berlin
say she isn't particularly strong on
the perpendicular pronouri. that she is
the best actor Of feminine pcrsuasions
| that has ever faded ont or faded in.
Other folks seem to think so. too.
For example, Adolph Zukor and Jesse
I.asky astute gentlemen directing Fa
nous Players. have given Paula n con-
tract. whose pcnrly figures would al
| most permit her to buy out Wertheim's.
even including the silk stocking depart
| ment Associated First National Pro-
ducers discovered Paula's Thespian
merits after the American rights On her
pictures had gone begging for many
months. Passion" produced here last
year. was her. fam0Es Madame llu-
| Barry picture. and this picture i'm
mediately brought her acclaim from
everywhere. Then there was Gypsy
Love" Zone Arabian Night etc.-all
Of which Is enough to state without
wasting any more eight point type. that
this former shop girl at Werthelm's is
none other than Pola Negri, whose SEN
sntional rise is one of the most rO-
mnntic romanccs in this ronmntical
business. where the good and bad die
Young and hard and quick.
Paula Becomes POla.
Pola kegri is of course merely n
| translation of Paula Schwartz. who
rarncd the munificcnt sum of fifteen
! marks II week as n clerk and who is
| now making more than that n minute.
Pola Ncgri is a Jcwcss from poscn.
and she owes her astounding succrss
to Ernest Lubitch. also n Jew. and the
outstanding director of the film world.
who discovered her and brought her
to her present pre- eminent position.
Clerking mt wertheim's didn't pre-
vent Paula Schwartz from dancing and
singing and playing the violin. Per.
haps she had read the late Elbert Huh
bard and Dr. Frank Crane. for she
just kept at it playing and singing
and fiddling and clerkinS until she
got concert engagement and was able
to punch the time clock at Wertheim's ;
| for the last time. for although her con-
cert tour was success and she sub
seQuently got placed with the Imperial
Ballet. the war broke out-and Pola
Negri out of job, turned back to
Paula Schwartz and Wertheims. That
alone shows the stuff that was in her
she was big enough to go back clerk
ling. But she had her eyes on the
movies and finally secured job as ex-
trn. Then Ernst Lubitsch discovered
her and-in the short space of six
years she has bccome-well we'll leave
it to plebiscitc as to what she has
become.
Her HObby-DOlls
Like all movie stars she has n hob
by. hers happening to he dolls. She
also enjoys riding. dividing her time
between her horse, Pasha. and her au-
tomobile. Benz. She is also learning
English and boasts that she will he
able to talk to American newspapermen
within two months POla, it seems. is
already looking forward to her Ameri-
can interviews, point in which she is
strikingly different from her American
rivals. who of course, will bend heaven
and earth in order to keep out of the
papers OF course,
There is another thing about her,
people who have watched her work EN-
phasize. She is in every sense an
artist. In her work and in lier private