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Died. Ramon Novarro, 69, silent film star, who in the 1920s vied with Rudolph Valentino as the screen's great Latin lover; of injuries suffered when he was bludgeoned in the bedroom of his home; in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Though only 5 ft. 8 in. tall, the handsome Mexican was a giant at the box office. In his 14-year career, he played opposite such leading ladies as Greta Garbo and Myrna Loy, appeared in scores of films, including The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) and Ben-Hur (1926), before fading out in the mid-1930s...
With Paris couture in the doldrums, the world's most sought-after designer is rapidly becoming Rome's Valentino. At 35 he has an unexcelled roster of customers trooping into his salon at 24 Via Gregoriana, led by Jackie Kennedy, who these days seldom buys from anybody else. More important, he improves with age; each Valentino collection strikes fashion editors as better than the last. When he showed his spring and summer clothes in Rome this winter, he declared them "the best I've ever done" and nobody in attendance would gainsay the king of Rome. Cried...
Last week Valentino and his clothes were in Manhattan, and by any . designer's standard, his visit was a triumph. "I'm a no-color man," he warned and then unleashed a bevy of models in all kinds of lacy, creamy shades of off-white. Swirling daytime dresses, gently skimming the knee, were worn with soft scarves and puffy berets. Heavily jewel-encrusted and embroidered vests gave sparkle and style to tailored white linen evening suits. Biggest hit of all was a trimly tailored, above-the-knee white coat boldly trimmed with Valentino's "V," emblazoned...
...runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item too special for mass reproduction: Valentino's hand-painted stockings, which sell Rome for $50 a pair. Reason, said Lord & Taylor, is that they are too fragile and too perishable...
Such stories plague the careers of our greatest film-makers, including King Vidor, Howard Hawks, John Ford, Ernst Lubitsch, and Frank Borzage, as well as stars like Gloria Swanson, Rudolf Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Sr., and even W. C. Fields, one of whose two films directed by D. W. Griffith is lost...