Modern Screen (Dec 1948 - Oct 1949)

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Please wend me Free Booklet and Print and Plctur Sample. I would like to play (Name Instrument). Have you Instrument Instrument?.... Name (Please Print) Address ritance ahead ■ how he's goin|,.U£ an attractive gi tary, he gets , riage a dav. and has had h For obvious rea~~. does is news. Let him bow ca'Sui-*-., beautiful lady — the European press will scent a romance. Couple his name with that of a girl already in the headlines, and you have a story that approaches, in sensation, the fabulous Wally Simpson-Prince of Wales romance. Khan, accustomed as he may be to having beautiful women swooping down on him in droves, was not immune to the Hayworth charm. He first sized her up appreciatively at a party organized by Elsa Maxwell to celebrate the tenth wedding anniversary of Lily Pons and Andre Kostelanetz. Rita was wearing a ravishing rose-colored gown, purchased during her short stay in Paris. During the evening, when Prince Ali Khan stepped out on the dance floor, the partner he embraced was usually a girl in a ravishing rose-colored gown. It was after Orson Welles had left for Rome and there was gossip of a reconciliation that Ali Khan met Rita again. This time it was at a party given by Alberto Dodero at his fabulous Chateau des Pins. However, it was not until the end of the first week in August, the time of the opening of the summer Sporting Club at Monte Carlo, that the romance of Rita and Ali became apparent. It took a great deal of perseverance on the part of the young prince, but by the time the Gala had ended it was obvious to those who had witnessed the public flirtation that the Prince was first contender in the Hayworth holiday sweepstakes. The opening of the summer Sporting Club of Monte Carlo is one of the biggest events of the season on the French Riviera. This year, in addition to the satisfaction of seeing the Edward G. Robinsons, Maurice Chevalier and Sacha Guitry, the famous French actor-playwright, the guests were caught up in the excitement of watching and commenting on the attempts of Prince Ali Khan to captivate the beautiful Rita. The word was whispered around that Ali Khan was out to steal a kiss from this girl of his princely dreams. One observer reported he had tried but had been rebuked in the restaurant. Others reported watching similar futile attempts in the entrance hall and in the cabaret. prince's reward . . . Five hours after the quest for a kiss had started, or at 3 o'clock in the morning, to be exact, interested spectators — and the persistent Ali Khan — were rewarded. Under the spell of the languid rhythm of "Clopin, Clopant," Rita embraced her prince charming and kissed him. This may or may not have been unwise; whatever the case, it made news. (When Molly Jones kisses her escort at the Fireman's Clambake, no one is more than mildly interested except Molly and her escort. When Rita Hayworth kisses a prince at what, fundamentally, is a Fireman's Clambake on a somewhat larger scale, columnists quiver and the news strikes into remote corners of the world.) After the Case of the Kiss, everyone was certain of Rita's selection of a vacation companion. As one well-known French scribe summed it up, "Rita took, a long time to make a choice among her numerous admirers, but now it's official. Of all those who sighed after her, it is the Prince Ali Khan who has won her company." It had been too interesting a yarn, however, for the scribe to write such a definite finis to it, so he continued with this gem of speculation: "Naturally, she has made june csllysv on the january cover of modern screen on sale december 10 many others jealous, the principal one being Orson Welles. Since his first visit to Cannes to see Rita, he has made several trips between Rome and the French Riviera. He arrives unexpectedly and then acts embarrassed about being here at all. "It is said that if Rita left the Hotel du Cap to live at La Reserve de Beaulieu, where it is quieter, it was only to keep from getting involved with Orson Welles." The correspondent explained the two rivals' attitudes and editorialized as follows: "Orson and Ali spy on each other and dodge one another. A fight between the two would provide great sport. Orson is a colossal specimen, and Ali, though not quite so muscular, is nonetheless in good physical shape. He exercises a lot and is quite a sportsman. He is a fighter. This young man, immensely rich, to whom life refuses nothing, loves a fight and provokes it." It was undoubtedly a great disappointment to those who had hoped for a violent physical encounter between Orson Welles and Ali Khan that the fight didn't come off. Instead, by August 20th, the United Press reported that Rita Hayworth and Ali Khan were motoring through Spain. The UP dispatch from Madrid said: "Rita Hayworth is the most popular movie star in Spain today. Everyone knows her by her maiden name of Margarita Carmen Cansino. Nevertheless, she refuses obstinately to receive journalists and has given strict orders to the hotel that no one is to disturb her. A Spanish reporter remarked, 'She doesn't even speak Spanish any more, but there is not a possible error — with her temperament and disposition, she couldn't possibly have been born anywhere but in Spain.' " It was a bad guess on Rita's part, this refusal to receive journalists. But the error is an understandable one. Because of the prominence of her escort and Rita's own fame, her every move had been watched by the press. The reporters had dramatized the slightest flicker of an eyelash and Rita, a girl who simply wanted a vacation, had found herself sharing headlines with the French Cabinet. Irritated by the wild and sometimes spicy items, she made the mistake of underlining them by avoidance of the press. From Madrid, Rita and Prince Ali motored to Lisbon where they stayed at the fashionable resort of Estoril. Besides Rita, the Associated Press reported, "the prince is accompanied by Mr. A. Williams, his secretary, whose chief task is to keep