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Among the Latins
Moreno there are glimpses of La Naldi and the shyest idol.
H. Oettinger
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"In Hollywood if you want fresh air you can spin around in your runabout. Here the traffic is impossible ! It's dazing to drive through it. And the shops ! I bought a few shirts and things on Fifth Avenue the other day and the bill was four hundred and fifty dollars. I'm not a tightwad," he said, apologetically, "but that's a lot of money for a few shirts and things, don't you think?"
We admitted that it was more than we usually spend.
But Tonv was dodging the issue. Was he glad to get out of the serial world? Was he happier among the dramatic Swansons and Danielses ?
Apparently not.
"This was a very good contract," he admitted. "But of course in leaving serials
I left stardom temporarily. You know I was only third in the feature billing of 'Lost and Found,' that picture I made for Goldwyn. That was hard — to come down from star billing."
Here, at least, was honest confession. I remember how the very Bebe who stood near us had told me of her comp 1 e i e indifference to where she stood in the electric lights. It had sounded symphonic at the time, but hardly convincing. Tony's version" of "third feature billing" and its effect upon the actor's ego was refreshingly sincere. Of course it's a blow to the erstwhile star to be relegated to a position below the title. He continued to explain how he felt.
"In my last pictures I've supported Gloria and Mary Minter. Now I'm cofeatured with Bebe. and soon I hope I'll be back where I was."
His next picture will go far toward determining his status in the world of Kliegs and Cooper-Hewitts, for in it he will be given the part intended for the Valentino. Here the public will be permitted to decide just how nearly the Moreno trilbies come to filling the
Photo by Donald Biddle Keyes
Nita Naldi confessed to having seen Glenn Hunter twice in "Merton."
Rodolphian brogues. Once and for all, in "Don Caesar de Bazan" — to be known as "The Spanish Dancer" — Sehor Antonio will have his chance to show up Signor Rodolph Guglielmi ; the public will judge. An advance note from this bench gives Valentino the decision. Tony is, a handsome cavalier and a gay caballero, but he hasn't that insinuating, fascinating suggestion of deviltry gleaming from his eye. And he admits it.
"What's the use of talking of Rudy's successors ?" he asked, with a Castiliarr shrug. "He is Rudy, himself. He has a unique, individual personality. None of us can take his place."
Moreno's task in "The Spanish Dancer" will be rendered arduous by the presence of Pola Negri. The story originally would have starred the barnstorming heart-breaker, with
Nita Naldi featured ; now the glib scenarists have reversed the interest so as to throw La Negri to the fore, with Moreno more or less featured.
"Ah, there's young Glenn Hunter," said Tony suddenly.
Bebe and Nita were all attention. Across the studio we saw a slender, self-effacing young fellow dressed in the collegiate mode of the moment, from broad-toed oxfords to rakish hat, fresh from one of the shops that had incurred Tony's displeasure.