New Britain herald., 1926-07-20
|ALENTINO IS MAD, | ANXIOUS TO FIGHT
heik of Movies Broadcasts
 Challenge in Newspaper
UEL, AMERICAN STYLE

Rssents Chicago Tribune Item Anent Powder Puffs For Mems Lounging's Rooms.
 New York, July 20 P)-Rudolph llentino arrived in New York to- y and said he was itching to fight man who wrote an editorial Ink Powder Puffs" published in e Chicago Tribune.
 The editorial avowed that the elk of the movies should have en drowned years ago." and con- lded with Rudy the beautiful rdener's boy, is the prototype of American male." He admitted fiting a letter to the newspaper out it.
 Says He's Really Mad Tim mad" Valentino rasped out reporters. I'll make whoever fote that foul stuff look like a full bon, This is no publicity stunt. really mad"
 / Valentino, interviewed in the Am ssador hotel, sat in an easy chair, ok and span, the height of fashion costume, but his eyes flashed. I can't understand how the editor the Chicago Tribune let that edi- tal get into the paper. But it is Ire than a coincidence. This hap he'd before just as I was passing tough Chicago. I read the editor just before I arrived in Chicago. Immediately wrote the letter."
 Would Challenge Editor I am not angered by the refer ke to my being the son of a gar- her." he added. What made me d is the whole tone of the in- ting thing. In Italy in the ab- ce of the name of the writer of article the editor may be chal- ged. l regret that system is not vogue here."
 Valentino made 1t clear that he not in arms against the Chicago bune, but merely the writer Of editorial. Tt might have been tten and slipped in at the last ment," he said.
 Chicago, July 20 R-Rudolph entino, sheik of the movies, or heone in his name, addressed CTS to the newspapers here ading for a chance to duel, erican style, with the anony- IS writer of an editorial entitled nk Powder Puffs" in the Sunday (e of the Chicago Tribune.
 IA powder vending machine! In hens washroom!" the editorial ter exclaimed in part: Homo ericanus! Why didn't someone stly drown Rudolph Guglielmo, s Valentino, years ago?"
 he editorial outburst was due to
 opening of new ballroom, re, in the mems lounge, a slot hine provides powder puffs and der.
 "Cowardly Writer"
 alentino was here yesterday en e to New York, and today the spapers received in the mail a er purporting to have been ed by him and demanding satis- ion, American style, for what
 letter termed a "scurrillous |onal attack upon me, my race, my fathers name" The letter aimed that Valentino bore no vance toward the Tribune but against the ''cowardly writer" call you, in return," the letter "a contemptible coward and (rove which of us is a better challenge you to personal This Is not challenge to a
 in the generally accepted = that would be illegal. But linois boxing Is legal and so is ting.
  bte so I may give you the beat you deserve" The challenger d, explaining that he was an rican citizen, T do not know you are or how big you are his. challenge stands if you are g as Jack Dempsey"
 e Tribune editorial concluded: by, the beautiful gardeners Is the prototype of the Ameri- male"
 d the letter signed Rudolph htino," ended with a postscript uncing ominously that he return to Chicago in ten and in the meantime could be essed in care of United Artists ration, New York.
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