She Seeks Divorce

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 21

She Seeks Divorce

Princess Serge Mdivani, otherwise Mis« Pola Negri, the film.star,.is..tired of mar* ried life, says the "Daily Mail." She has entered a second suit for divorco against her elegant young husband, whom last year she said she adored, after with* drawing divorce proceedings. She has left her magnificent country home at Serain* court, near Melun, some twenty miles from Paris, for a flat in the Pare Monceau quarter of Paris. . The wedding of-» Miss Negri and tha prince took place in 1927' in the tiny Town Hall of the village".of .•'•■Seraincourt. Tha entire village turned out for the ceremony, and sporting guns were fired into the air in honour of the smiling and happjr couple. '~ ~; An army of cinema operators filmed them as they left —the princess wearing a priceless ermine cloak and jewels that would have surprised an Indian Kajah—for the adjoining chateau of Seraincourt. Au elaborate reception was held on the sunlit lawns bordering the lake, on which the white swans courted their ladies with-grace-and tactfulness. There was a sensation in film circles last year when a report, was spread about that Miss Negri and her prince husband were no longer in agreement and that divorce proceedings had been started. Both the prince and his.,..wife assured me in December that they had kissed and "made it up," and.they suited the actioa to the word' in their luxury suite in a famous Parisian hotel, employing terms sa endearing as to disarm any-sceptic. Now the temperamental- Pola says that all is over. "I am determined," she says, "to get a divorce. I hope .the case will go through speedily, and I assure you I shall be.happy on the day judgment is pronounced." Miss Negri did not say-why she'is seeking a divorce. Miss Negri was first married to Count Domski, a Polish ' officer,' in 1920. She divorced him within a year. She has said that the two great lovers of her lifa were Valentino and a Polish artist, who also died, whom she knew when she was an unknown Polish girl. ;',•.. Prince Mdivani- is si Geoi'fr'an, and \\4 has stated that his father avas an aide-de* camp to the late'Csar," : ,';.

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