Word: rodolph
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, a successful attempt was made to transmit a colored picture. It involved merely another application of the same device. A colored picture of Rodolph Valentino, in M. Beaucaire, was photographed three times, once with a blue screen to take the blues, once with a yellow screen to take the yellows, once with a red screen to take the reds. These photographs were then transmitted separately. The only difference of method was that the lines of each picture were at a different angle across the plate, so that when they were reproduced they would blend instead of blur...
...Rodolph Valentino (real name Rodolfo Guglielmo) : "Day Dreams, a volume of poems and philosophy written by me, made its appearance in bright melon-colored binding. In one poem, called You, I said...
Meditate upon heroes. The day is easily recalled when Francis X. Bushman was the brightest star of evening. He was the squarejawed, peg-top hero who resembled models of elegance of the Sears-Roebuck Co. Nowadays it is Rodolph Valentino, his fame somewhat muddied of late, but still Rodolph...
...favorite actors and actresses, Mary Pickford, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge and Gloria Swanson gain the affections of both groups in that order. Then there is a difference of opinion. Douglas Fairbanks is, of course, the beau ideal of boyhood and Rodolph Mineralava Valentino, equally of course, the prince of girlish dreams...
...picture is slightly notable for its introduction of Ricardo Cortez to the breathless multitude. Cortez was acquired by Jesse Lasky to fit in the niche left vacant when Rodolph Valentino resigned. Critical opinion estimated Ricardo as slightly less beautiful than Rodolph...