RUDOLPH MAY WED THIRD TIME

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2338, 7 January 1926, Page 4

RUDOLPH MAY WED THIRD TIME

PROPHECY CASTS GLADYS COOPER FOR NEW ROLE. . NEW YORK, December 18. The afternoon newspapers prophecy that Rudolph Valentino, the moving picture actor, will marry Miss Gladys Cooper, the English actress. Valentino, the flapper’s Idol, arrived in London recently from New York. He has already had two wives. Mrs Jean Acker Valentino was the first. She became an Italian, and lost her American citizenship. His second wife was Winifred Hudnut, actress aid dancer, the daugthter MFWYP and dancer, the daughter of Richard Hudnut, a multi-millionaire perfume manufacturer. They agreed to separate last Agust, when Rudolph announced that he was a "marital vacation” and that there would be no divorce and no alimony. After his departure for England Mrs Winifred Hudnut Valentino stat'd. however, that she intended divorce him for refusing to live with her. Five days later Rudolph was mobbed in London by girls when he

attended a West End theatre. He had to escape over the roof. Miss Gladys Cooper, who recently celebrated her thirtv-sixth birthday

is one of the best known of En actresses. In early me she married the Hon. H. J. Buckmaster, but he divorced her. At the time her name was commonly associated with time of Seymour Hicks, the actor. She ha; a son and a daughter.

Beginning on the stage at Christ mas, 1905, she made her first “hii two years later as Eva in “The Girl, of Qottenberg.” Since then she ha: played in most of the leading produc tions in the musical comedy world. One of her successes was as Mabel Vere in "Wanted, a Husband.”