THE REAL "RUDY."

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 8 September 1926, Page 7

THE REAL "RUDY."

RESENTED LIMELIGHT. HIS GREATEST LOVE. HOLLYWOOD (U.S.A.), August 23. A friend who knew Valentino well declares that he lived a most discontented life. He resented being held up as a sartorial model for young men, and that the worship, not always from afar, of the opposite sex irritated him beyond measure. This was what inspired his challenge to a duel to an editorial writer on tho "Chicago Tribune," who had ridiculed him unmercifully. He told one friend recently that he hoped to live down his reputation as a "Sheik." His greatest love was for Winnifred Hudnut." Hollywood directors unite in calling him a real actor of very marked ability. They say that, while egotistical and arrogant, he was willing to work the loaerest possible hours, and that he was possessed of remarkable technique. POLA NEGRI. COSTLY MOURNING GARB. NEW YORK. August 28. Pol'a Xegri alighted from the Twentieth Century Limited this morning in her £600 mourning costume and drove immediately to the undertakers to lay a floral blanket costing £400 over Valentino's casket. There was a bank measuring six feet by 11 of red roses, with the word •Rola in 10in letters, done in white forget-me-nots. She was highly incensed at the newspaper story that Valentino, before his death, revived his first marriage with Jean Acker.