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Show Will' 2sae One Steal ihsfas&& M 7 Rudolph Valentino, A iiili o Back in the Studio After Long Absence in Court, Must Again Win His Old Place as "Ideal Lover" From a I Big Field of Rival Romeos if He Would Hold His Popularity f 1 i .i J ft.VAv V js-aupoLpg-vAtraTiKfl gatting. back to the screen ' in time to avert soma other star stealing hii Uureli the Doit wonderful lover ta filmland"? Moreno, Novarro, Novello, de Roche have ujr of these new favorites displaced dis-placed Valentino in the affections of the fair mx gineo "the ahelk" withdrew from the silver sheet following eourt troubleeT Evidently the handsome Valentino la taking no chances. Now that he is free once again to return to the Klieg lights of the studios, "relentless Rudolph" announces an-nounces he is to begin work on tha first of a series of three special productions Immediately upon the termination of his contract with tha Famous Playere-- Playere-- Leaky people. This contract haa about Tear to run. "I have made arrangements for engaging en-gaging one of tha best directors in the motion picture business," said Valentino, "and I am at present negotiating for a story that I hop will prove to be tha . greatest in which I have appeared." This husband of tha piquant Winifred Budnot is assembling a special staff of artists for his new pictures and has gone to Italy to make preparations Jot tha filming of tha first scenes. ' Valentino, whose rise to fame followed Us appearanoea In "Tha Sheik" and his dancing scenes hi "Tha Four Horsemea of tha Apocalypse," is now to appear ai , a star for the recently organised Rita-Carlton Rita-Carlton Pictures, Inc. - Now, ft is being asked. Can Valentino some back? Baa he lost anything by his long absenea from studio work? Host important, haa one other star ' , usurped his aid position in tha hearts of tha ladles. , . "Budie," as tha fans know him, created a special public among the feminine femi-nine gender of the country that became a recognised factor in tha picture houses. It was a public that had neither age nor social station boundaries. In city or . yillaga a Valentino fan could be a noma, loving, stately matron of three score years, a Celtic cook or a society deb. And then "tha Sheik" went and got all tangled np in litigation" with his old employers and waa enjoined by tha court! from appearing in pictures pending pend-ing tha final adjudication of tha difference differ-ence at issue. For some months ha toured the country with his besutlful Bow bride, appearing in theatres, cafes CM yMtifamnd tWiust ll I 'i'.' ' llu- J flirTL'Bi iV 1 nt! n '-"it- V must have their ecreen idola. When T .' SZV ' 'TX' W, jJ(Jb " jVyyT f X$fc$l . Rudolph Valentino temporarily ' I- J I lsMnT" V O f ' Z r5$Sit?&trl " - f' 5 J i retired from the silver sheet while I J i TSsT M ill ' I '( f'f ' : f ' J litigation over his contracts was I "1 f- tfA"vy I I ' ' lt-Se&ri- 1 C V"' . on in the courts, the girls missed , ll 7 H' I I' mjV I' . WW f it ' j him for a time, and then sought l"l I (si ii , r , V '--; j J other lovea. Quick to take ad- jjfL lf ' '. y' '''V" j film magnatea began trotting out IfjjjA jr oSv " ' ' c ' - Jtk y thern supplanted Valentino in tha TV T V;'( Xf of fana- Thaty wluit ""V. . i i'' " X'm '1 " li'X0 ' Valentino and his pretty bride and yS JJV f ,w' ' "VN. I ' .f :"' . .'"K, iv - i ' i..-" 1 ' , all their friends are wondering. Cirls will be girls, and they just must have their screen idola. When Rudolph Valentino temporarily retired from the silver sheet whila litigation over his contracts was on in the courts, the girls missed , him for a time, and then sought other lovea. Quick to take ad-vantage ad-vantage of "Rudie'a" absenea, film magnatea began trotting out other "aheika." Have any of thern supplanted Valentino in tha affections of fans) That's what Valentino and his pretty bride and all their friends are wondering. FU 1 . ana nance nans, in aanea exhibitions. That, and making speeches against the "movie trust." Just look what happened! Everybody in tha film business is trying to dig up a new "sheik." Rivals are trying to -take advantage of Valentino's absenea from tha producing field by bringing forth another great lover of tha screen. TTAVK they succeeded? Out of the . new crop of film lovers lately developed, is there one or more to outshine tha dashing Julio of the Four Horsemen? Then is, for instance, Charla da Roche properly e speaking, Charles d'AutUr do Roehefort darling of France's film, fan daughters, especially imported to r step into Rudolph's empty shoes. Charles, no matter what his last name la, is mora ruggedly handsome than Valentino. He's six feet tall, broad-shouldered, broad-shouldered, slim-of-waiat and be lovea ' a picture with a fight in it. -When I fight, I feel real." aays he, "Soma actors when they fight, Just make motions so and so Bs illustrates with a languid hand. "But me, I punch bard like that!" Be sends a defense-VM defense-VM pillow skyrocketing to the wall. Be's thirty-six, and be has curly hair. Naturally, be went through the war, and had real adventures, like suffering in a German prison camp and taking trenches of tha enemy all by himself. And, though he Uvea in a country where Volstead Vol-stead had no vote, he's never taken a -'drink of anything stronger than tea in bis life! And, he isn't married. This paragon, who reminds one of Lou Tellegen in his heart-amaahing matinee idol days, when feminine adorers risked life and limb to cut a button from his sacred coat, announces that he had not come to take Rudolph's place, but ta make his own. Then here is England putting op a coatestajnV Ivor NoveUo, "baAdscanast Spain's contribution to the constellation con-stellation ia Antonio Moreno, born of poor but aristocratic parents, possessor of a rare personality per-sonality hand at the game. For just as ba appeared ap-peared in' tha doorway of Mr. and Mrs-Sidney Mrs-Sidney Drew's manager's office, word came in over the telephone that Rankin Drew was ill and soma one must be found for the part he wss to have played. Antonio An-tonio waa the "some one." Af.r.- that there was Mary Pickford and Blanche Sweet to be wooed and won on tha silver sheet, Gloria Swanson, Norma Talmadge and Beba Daniels in need of good-looking leading men, and now there ia tha fascinating Pola Negri, with whom Antonio actually is taking the place of Valentino in his latest picture. pic-ture. Will ba take that envied place in tha affections of the ladies who regard him with Jealous" criticism from the seats in the orchestra and the balcony oil their favorite movie theatre T But why when you coma to. consider . it should it be taken for granted that a successor to Rudolph would have to ba from some foreign shore T Why do producers pro-ducers universally argue that if feminine femi-nine hearts once responded to the sleek Mack hair and jungle grace of tha ' Latin, the thing to do is to; keep on offering offer-ing patent-leather-haired paathar men ad infinitum t - Didnt they ever have a little daughter daugh-ter or sister or niece who wept bitter tears over the destruction of her favorite doll? Buying another one "just like the old dolly" wouldn't have stopped her weeping. She'd . have thrown it down with a waiL , . ' When a very young man falls . hope-. hope-. lessly in love with a captivating widow, dances attendance oa bar, goes through And what do the girls say) y the usual agonies of an unsophisticated youth in the hands of a clever enchaa-tresi, enchaa-tresi, and b at length discarded for another, an-other, is it a second widow with a know-,ing know-,ing smile that brings him out of his unhapplness? That very young man is not going ta be enthralled by a duplicate of his first love. Give him an innocent-eyed, curly-headed curly-headed little ingenue who says, "What do you think about it?" before aha ventures ven-tures an opinion on any subject, or "My, how strong you are!" when he lifts her out of the car. . So why not search the studios for something different a men who wont be anything like the adored "Sheik" ia appearance or personality. A Viking, say a man of brawn and brains, who need riot be beautiful so , long as he hss magnetism. A "Rough Diamond" essentially American, but not bred to 5 o'clock teas and not ashamed of the fact. A morose young man who looks aa though made for villainy, around whom mystery . casts her spell. (Of course he'd be reformed or misunderstood ia his pictures!) rpHESE ' are mere suggestions of - Rudolph's antitheses, who might ba found on careful search; although there is no reason why the longed-for aua-cessor aua-cessor may not spring from tha Unknown. Un-known. Perhaps ha is even now driving a taxieab along Broadway, or studying " law in an office in Saa Francisco. The one requisite on which all feml-nino feml-nino adorers-to-be will be unanimous ia insisting, whether such won hi pars view the new idol from camp chairs in tha old Town Hall -or from luxurious box seats in tha latest "most beautiful theatre is) the country," is that he shall be able ta make fervent and convincing love, Us must be a perfect levari England puta forward Ivor Novello, who, besides being able to wear earrings gracefully, is well known aa a composer on the stage of the dark theatre rehearsing rehears-ing a scene from "Tha Little Minister." The young man at the switchboard, it 'must ba admitted, gave mora than a "once-over" to the rehearsal. He waa intensely interested. He wsylaid the manager and tha star after the cast disbanded, dis-banded, for supper, and begged, for a part a email part any old part Be waa eloquent enough to get it. Later he graduated into better parte with Miss Adams in the "The Little Sister of Jose" and "Peter Pan." But his accent, fascinating enough in itself, prevented his achieving important roles oa the speaking stage, unless the character char-acter to bs portrayed did not need te have a mastery of the English language. REELING very, very blue one day when nobody was putting oa plays containing parte " for handsome young foreigners, Antonio sat down ia aa agent's -office next to an Englishman who had been imported by a film producing pro-ducing company. "Accents," said this latter gentleman, aagely, "dent make any difference oa the ecreen, Yoa can talk' in Choctaw and it's ail the same to the fans." Taking this tip, Antonio besieged picture studios,, where Lack took a Mexico sends Ramon Novarro, who haa youth, manly beauty and an enticing smile which . discloses, a mouthful of perfect teeth that waa real and tragedy that waa not make-believe. When Antonio waa only nine, bis father died, leaving the little chap to make the living for the family. Ba did this at the uninspiring task of de livering bread from door to door in Al-geciroa, Al-geciroa, a village opposite Gibraltar. Ba must have had personality even then, for he gained the interest of Benjamin Ben-jamin Curtis, nephew of a former Mayor of New York, and Enrique Zanetti, aa American. These new friends sent Antonio An-tonio to school ia Gibraltar and eventually even-tually brought him to this country, where his education was continued at a school in Northampton, Mass. ' Later, tha future star of the movies .went to work for aa electric lighting company, and here romance stepped in. "Something's the matter.' up at the theatre, Tony," said his chief, one evening. eve-ning. "Suppose yoa run along and give it the once-over." Tony went. Maude Adams and her company ware France's entrant for Rudolph' a crown ia Charles de Roche, who ia a much more tugged, two-fisted two-fisted type than the nowinvisible nowin-visible favorite actor in the tight little isle," be of the gorgeous profile, who can wear earrings in a way to make a film-fan thrill Bs the composer, by the ws, of that popular popu-lar war-song, "Keep tha Borne Fires Burning," sung in six languages, credited cred-ited by some enthusiasta aa helping to win the war. Mexico also enters the international arena, advancing the personable figure of Ramon Novarro, who first opened his dreamy eyes in Buango, when ha wore the less poetic name of Samaniagoe. There'a no denying that Ramon ia beautiful and young. Be hss perfect teeth and just the right kind of smile te show them off. Bs looks, as a matter of fact, like a youthful god modeled ia bronse. But did the adored Valentine have only beauty oa his side when he vamped half a continent? ANTONIO MORENO hails from Spain, ia of poor but aristocratic family, and baa already lived through romaace . ' CoiilsM. lean, a resoe Leaser Caaeaav - . " t |