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Died. Nita Naldi, 59, who as a girl named Donna Dooley in a New Jersey convent dreamed of becoming a new Theda Bara, was plucked from a Broadway chorus line by John Barrymore in 1919 and within five years was vamping Rudolph Valentino in such passionate pantomimes as Blood and Sand and Cobra; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Billed as a distant relative to Dante's Beatrice, she had an answer for women who asked the stock question: "How did it feel to be kissed by Valentino?" Said she: "He was a real heman, but the poor darling...
VICENTE BLASCO IBÁÑEZ. terrible-tempered, anticlerical novelist, was looking for a female lead for the movie of his novel. Blood and Sand, when at a party he met pious, vixen-toothed Actress Nita ("Nixie") Naldi, who screamed forthwith: "You Bolshevik! You heathen! . . . You worm! You Pagan! You anti-Christ!" Ibanez shrilled back so excitedly that his -'upper plate fell out of his mouth into Nixie's bosom." Whereupon the hostess, "who had hoped for a stimulating evening, but not this stimulating, quickly reached down into Nixie, pulled out the teeth, rinsed them in the punch...
...DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount...
...third revue at his two-year-old Manhattan nostalgia palace, the Diamond Horseshoe cabaret. For this show Rose dug up several pre-and-early-'20s cinema stars. Master of ceremonies was grey-haired Carlyle Blackwell, who was a notable glamor boy during the Wilson Administration. The lush Nita Naldi, whose heroic scale bust was a feature of Rudolph Valentino's Blood and Sand, gave a smoldering recital of Kipling's The Vampire. Shimmy-shaking Gilda Gray didn't attempt the racking vibrations of her youth, but heaved and rolled through a less exacting danse du ventre...
...realizes it is falling flat, and ends up as out-and-out burlesque. If "Worth A Million" had tried to compete with the Old Howard, from the start, it could have made better use of its east. Glamor-the old and the new -is represented to perfection in Nita Naldi and Cobina Wright, Jr. Nita is dark and over-weight. Junior is blonde and slim. He stature is picturesque. She deserves to have a play built completely around her--a play which would just stop in the middle and give the audience a chance to look and wonder...