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together, they have given the scan
dal mongers to mouth the honored
name Of Del Rio.
In Europe ~the aristocrats still
avenge their honor at dawn with
the shining steel of rapiers.
And all of Europe is buzzihg
now with the reports, persistent
though subdued, that CareWe's coli
lapse on shipbOard just before he
sailed for Europe was due, un-
dohbtedly, to his last minute con
viction that perhaps the European
trip was not the best thing for his
health.
Romance, drama--tragedy, pos
sibIy-are interviewer in this story
Of the films that is more romantic,
more dramatic than anything that
has vet been lnfolded on the silver
screen.
Educated in Convent
Three years ago Jaime Del Rio
and his young wife OF 90 were liv-
ing on their ranch OF 100000
acree=-Cruces Ranchor-outside of
Mexico City. Dolores, convent
bred. the daughter OF Senior and
Sonora ]. Asunsolo, was the pam
pered wife OF the brilliant Jaime.
versity. Of Madrid, had returned to
the Del Rio estates in Mexico.
Honeymoon-bound into Mexico,
one day in May. 1925. came Ed.
win Carewe and his newest bride,
Mary Akin. divorced from Thomas
L. Armstrong, Chicago business
DUkkL Me Va
Windsor and Bert LytelI, Agnes
Hollywood honeymoon--ail Of them
divorced now.
The Carewes carried introduc.
tions to the Del Rios. They were
invited to tea. The lovely Dolores
was the perfect hostess. Carewe,
the bridegroom, saw instantly de.
he was, the great screen possible
ties OF the young n1atron.
Lost No Time
Carewe; the genius, lost no time.
He prevailed upon the Del Rios to
visit Hollywood, 50 that she might
have q screen test. They were
amused at the idea, but they went,
the indulgent Jaime asserting to
the trip for his wife's pleasure.
Dolores had her test. The rest
10 known. Carewe's predictions
came true.
Her natural talent and beauty,
backed by the millions of movie
enterprise. flashed Dolores Del Rio
to -dizzying heights.
Meanwhile, after q short space
Of three years, Hollywood, never
loath to seize upon a choice NOR
sci OF gossip and roll It around on
its tongue, discovered that the
CareWes, who now had two babies
were not on friendly terms and
that Carewe's interest in his Mexi
can star savored less of business
than Of the personal.
Jaime Writes = Play
Jaime, unable to fit himself into
the tinsel-like environment of Hol
lywood, with its rococco palaces
nisramed homes, its wild parties
its thinly-veiled scandals, sought
peace of mind in literary work
others a play, "From Hell Comes
play. But he had all sorts of diff
ficulties with it and his return,
from it were said to be scarcely
commensurate with It's box offic,
appeal
HIS income was a 5-and.10-cen
income compared with that OF hi
wife on five.year contract, and vi
among the big stars with Doug am
Mary, Chaplin and the rest. Hi
pride forbade that she use he
money for their domestic expenses
Yet the position which she now as
stunned demanded a lavish outla,
that taxed his resources.
Finally, Jamie and Dolores d.
cided on a trial separation. jain
came to New York. That was i
February. He stayed at modes
hotel across the street from wher