Show Doug's New Leading Lady r v DOLORES DEL RIO By DAN THOMAS NE NEA Service Writer HOLLYWOOD Cal April 16 For the first time since he reached the top rung of the cinema ladder Do Douglas glas Fairbanks is to have a leading lady who really acts In the past Doug has carried his own pictures the pictures the heroine being little more than a beautiful prop The Gaucho his next film fUm will be different Dolores Del Rio has been signed for the feminine lead in this South American epic Miss Del Rio acCepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac the role anI only on condition that it be played upI up I 1 1 am glad to get back bacle into the harness again declares Fairbanks who has been Idle for about a year And I 1 will be especially happy to be working v with Miss Del Rio She Is perfectly suited for the part be- be eing a Latin b by birth Some say that Doug always chose a beautiful but dumb leading lady so that the spotlight would shine upon him at all times On the contrary 1 I believe belle that his Selection se selection se- se lection of Miss Del Rio will make his acting appear even more brilliant bril bril- llant Jiant Dolores Dolores' Is today one of the biggest stars in Hollywood having risen to to that position during the thelast thelast thelast last year year and and she can act Doug Is now In the he picture game to make money not to gain laurels As an actor he is literally literally- sitting on top of ot the Industry Industry Industry-he he can go gono gono gono no farther He realize reaUze that the proper proper response to to his leads will wIIl not not- only augment his own oi work bIt bJ t will will greatly improve the the entire film That Is ia why he signed the Mexican beauty In Jn this picture I will wm be fia wa a gaucho paucho a South American cowboy Doug told me There will be no notime notime time element elemit in the story which might have taken place any iny time during the last century Naturally lly it will ill be colorful showing the South Americans as w we think of them rather than as they areA are A film d depicting the southern continent as it actually is today would be very uninteresting We have to show the gauchos In colorful colorful color color- ful tul costumes and romantic settings In order to make them interest interest- ing That Is what we call movie mo license |