The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-05-12
MUCH GOLD FOR
RUDE; WIFE
PEEVED

Mrs. Rudolph Valentino, upon
whose frail but wilful shoulders
many of her critics like to foist
the blame for Rudolph's fairly
dismal showings since his patched
up truce with Famous Players,
will go into the producing game
herself, announcement from Los
Angeles says.
The necessity for this move was
forced upon the whilom Natcha
RamboVa since United Artists,
commonly known as 1.-THE Big f."
secured her husband to new con-
tract which puts him in the same
organization as boasts Mary Pick
ford, Doug Fairbanks, Charlie
Chaplin, Bill Hart and d. ".
Griffith. Under the United con-
tract, of course. such things as
puttering wives, are not toler-
ated, and Mrs. Valentino, FESTIVE
under the urge to do something
in pictures, will become a hun
dred per cent boss in her .'wn
right.
Valentines first picture under
his new and flattering contra It
will be an adaptation of John Fred
erick's sensational novel, Bronze
Collars" The story is a romance
of early California in the days of
Spanish rule. The bronze collar
signifies a badge of slavery, which
the hero will wear during his
trials in the earlier part of the
story. Clarence Brown will direct.
Something of Charlie Chaplin's
'"The Gold Rush." soon to be re-
leased, and which the famous star
declared is the picture the world
will best remember him by. The
following, in part, from the New
York Herald Tribune:
A symbolical autobiography by
Charlie Chaplin is the definition
bestowed on Chaplin's just COM
pleted The Gold Rush." by
those who have seen it in the
cutting room out at the coast.
The one and only Chaplin has
put his heart, his art and his
soul into the camera that shot:
his latest picture. With that
own, and against the background
of old Klondyke gold rush days,
he has depicted with subtly tender
and delicate master strokes the
struggle of mans eternal hunt
for happiness, it's heartbreaks and
tears and its laughter and joy.
And the worldly riches that be-
come his in the course of the
story do not make up for the bit
ter loneliness Of his heart and
soul. But they are a means to
an end, as the picture shows.
Charlie Of the derby, cane,
baggy trousers, funny mustache
and waddling walk, who has made
the whole world laugh more than
any other mere comedian that
ever lived, has built in 1.-THE Gold
Rush" a delightful structure of
fun and laughter. On the tragedy
and misery and hardships suffer
cd by the pioneers who first jour
neyed to the icebound Alaska.
and on the dreams Of the soul
gufferings of the sourdough, who
braved mountains, ice and snow
and starvation and death in their
mad rush for gold. Chaplin has
built the funniest and most hilari-
Gus comedy Of his career.
We will laugh when we will see
him half starved, hurting himself
to the ground in front of q pros
pector's cabin, in a self-enforced
faint, only to cause the owner of
the cabin to lift him up. carry
him gently inside and revive him
with hot coffee and a badly
needed meal. We will
laugh when we will see how he
tears himself away from the mob
-
ing the Chilkoot Pass, only to
stubbornly go his own lonely
way against a driving blizzard
that tears his shabby clothes to
pieces and blows him finally like
a piece Of paper into the noun
tain cabin of a fugitive from
when we will see him the wrong
recipient of an endearing note Of
apology written to his rival by
her whom he adores, though he,
the disreputable Charlie, is scarce.
~ noticed by her-and how this
note that was not meant for him
at all sends him into the seventh
heaven. We will laugh
when we will see a man who has
discovered untold riches rush
wildly in search for Chaplin, who
Is paying attention to his dance
hall queen only, and who will,
therefore. have nothing to do
with mere gold when the much
more important affair of his heart
is at stake; and we will laugh
when Charlie, much against his
own will, becomes a millionaire
and sails for home, wrapped in
three heavy and costly fur coats,
a passenger in the cabin de luxe
of an ocean liner, but it's unhap-
plest passenger in spite of his
millions because he thinks he has
lost the queen of his heart.
There is a laugh in every foot
Of this great picture-perhaps it
will give an answer to the ques-
ton with which Robert Alden
Sanborne's poem Charlie Chap
lin" ends-"Charles Chaplin, who
are you in the dark?"