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Born Myrna Williams 29 years ago on a Montana ranch, Myrna Loy was "discovered'' as an obscure sculptress by Rudolph Valentino. Given the Madonna role in Ben Hur, she was told three hours later she was "not the type." For years she played an endless monotony of roles portraying seductive sinuosity. A stranger to Broadway, she has never been east of the Mississippi...
Bolero is supposed to resemble the life of the late Dancer Maurice Mouvet. George Raft dances capably. His costume and appearance are faintly suggestive of the late Rudolph Valentino. With a straight face he recites such lines as: "I trust your marriage has turned out happy." Poor shot: Raft trying to look moved beside his father's grave...
...What did Rudolph Valentino, William Dean Howells and Frank W. ("5 & 10?") Woolworth have in common...
Died, Frank Ellis Campbell. 61, famed Manhattan undertaker, director of the funerals of Rudolph Valentino, Jeanne Eagels, Oscar Hammerstein. William Dean Howells, Anna Held, Yernon Castle, Frank W. Woolworth, Texas Guinan, Fatty Arbuckle, Francesco de Pinedo and many another celebrity; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Illinois, he sawed casket lumber for a local undertaker, went to Manhattan with no money, plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs...
Efforts to dress up the theme-by such touches as this or by having Jamil take himself a shade less seriously than the old sheiks used to do-help, not to modernize the picture, but to give it a certain wistful charm. The memory of Rudolph Valentino is still green in Hollywood. In The Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable...