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Gilbert
d^J^orma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland in a dramatic scene from "The Dove". Here his Spanish cynicism finds expression, and is enhanced by his cosmopolitan nonchalance.
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the Screen's latest
"GREAT ^OVER"
By Beulah Livingstone
Np-EW York is marvelling at the mercurial rise of Gilbert Roland. A year ago he played a small part in a program picture — to' day his name is featured on Broadway as the hero of Norma Talmadge's "Camille" . He was not chosen for that role by mere chance. Before it was assigned to him, almost every actor in Hollywood had passed critical scrutiny. Roland seemed to have the peculiar combination of characteristics necessary for Alexandre Dumas' famous hero, Armand Duval. And those who chose him were not disappointed. Like the flame in a Roman torch-race, the word has flown round that Roland is a handsome, stirring, vivid Armand — a new hero for popularity contests.
Now a thousand questions about Gilbert Roland spring to a thousand lips. Where did he come from, how was he discovered for the screen — who are his antecedents and what is his future? A new star in the Hollywood constellation is as important a development in the motion picture world as is a new peony in a botanist's collection.
Roland is a Spaniard, twenty-two years old. His father was one of Spain's leading matadors, his grandfather and his greatgrandfather were well-known bull-fighters, too. It is no wonder therefore that his family expected young Gilbert to carry on in this pursuit, which that vocation certainly is! Born in May, under the sign of Taurus, the Bull, he seemed especially predestined for bull-fighting.
His childhood was spent in a country place near Seville. Matadors came and went discussing the different methods of bull-fighting, famous arenas, great bullfighting heroes. This (Cont. on page 77)
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