POLA NEGRI AND C.B.S.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1929, Page 11

POLA NEGRI AND C.B.S.

:; Tho name of PolaNegrj V a household word all over Europe and America, all over the world probably. She has countless admirers, and everyone who meets her succumbs to her charms, says an English correspondent. Her latest conquest is no less a person, than Mr. Bernard Shaw. For years'it lias been Miss Nogri's ambition to. play tho part of the biggest vamp in historyCleopatra. .Her object iii coming to Europe was to try to persuade Mr. Shaiv to allow her to film Caesar and Cleopatra. , And sho lias succeeded! That Mr. Shaw, who has long resisted the most seductive offers of tho film world, should surrender to her appeal is not the least part of her triumph, but he was convinced that.she will mako an ideal Cleopatra; In ; fact, ho intends to give herhis personal, help in . casting arid filming this' play oh Caesar's dalliance with Egypt. , -Miss Pcla Ne'gri is*most enthusiastic nVut her meeting with G.B.S. "I have met many, great.people,", she said, "politicians, rulers, great actors, and men of the highest standing, but none of them has the personality of Mr. Bernard Shaw.' There is'something.hypnotic about him, and yet he is so kind, so charming, that you feel at home at once." ' *

"There is ''.'iiotlurig' signed about filming his play 'Caesar and Cleopatra,' but Mr. Shaw has agrcetl, provided that he approves of the characters, and so tho matter rests, but I am suro wo shall agree." / When asked if.she felt proud of her achievement, sho answered, "Most proud. All that has. gone before was nothing compared with tho film wo shall, make. Everything is to be real. I will have no 'soven-dollars-a-week' supers, playing as though each wore a little sheik. In tho desert I will find tho real people, unaffected by any a'rti-' (iciality, to form the background characters of the film." ■