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Another case involving a late great Italian entertainer turned up in court this week. In Milan, Alberto Valentino and Mrs. Maria Strada, brother & sister of Cinemactor Rudolf Valentino, sued Columbia Pictures and Edward Small Productions for $700,000 damages. The picture Valentino (TIME, May 7), according to Alberto and Maria, is a clear case of "defamation of character and the unauthorized use of the name and likeness of the famous star." As a result, brother & sister claim they have suffered "shame, annoyance, ridicule, humiliation and mortification...
...best scenes, though, are worth the price of a balcony seat. His Space Brigade parodies TV sciencefiction programs to perfection as he wisecracks with the Queen of Venus and her Venusmen. Again in The Clown, Lahr soliloquizes as a cross-eyed Pagliacci, clowns through a superdeadpan imitation of Rudolph Valentino in Sapanish costume, and mimics a stately Spanish dance while peering down the front of a dancing partner twice his height. It is Lahr's grimaces, pantomine, and periodic exclamations ("Gonggg") that put these scenes across. The frequent appearance of six G-strung showgirls adds the final touch of burlesque...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Madame Butterfly with Kirsten, Miller, Prandelli, Valentino...
Also on the bill is Gaslight Follies, which shows delightful sketches of old-timers like Marie Dressler, Mack Sennett, Rudolph Valentino, Lionel Barrymore, Two-gun William S. Hart, and a host of really beautiful female stars from the twenties...
Died. Marion Benda, 45, Ziegfeld Follies girl of the '20s, long rumored to be the mysterious Woman in Black who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood...