Word: valentino
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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...
...sensational success of the cinema version of his The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse that "made" Rodolfo Guglielmo (stage name Rodolfo Valentino), cinema star. Some of his other novels; Blood and Sand, La Bodega, Mare Nostrum, The Shadow of the Cathedral...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES? "How To Be a Successful Movie Star," keenly and amusingly satirized, in the person of Merton Gill who learned the technique of Valentino by correspondence and became a new Charlie Chaplin against his will...
...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...
Sylvia Breamer is consistently entertaining in the title role. With the exception of Warren Kerrigan, her satellites twinkle pleasantly in their several spheres. Kerrigan has apparently been touched by the Valentino influence and plays his highwayman a trifle daintily...