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THE BUFFALO »LM)\Y EXPRESS MMMMMHDM Sunday. July 20. 1924 on the!• ^Movie Stars Nita Naldi Leads in Rise of Nonna Dooley Looks Before Brains, Says Film Vamp. By MAXUEF
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Hamelln. her favorite recitation, with Nonna Dooley, who fought furiously her picture in a magakine and en appropriate gestures. to protect the good name of Ireland, gaged her immediately for the role. Polst was hers." * • . but Nita Naldi, imported straight This picture was Nita.Naldi's real In At fourteen, the coming movie from Naples. troduction to the movie public, and vamp was the most popular girl In Evolution of a name. Nita, In terms of the Rroadwayltes. the convent. Tall and thin, her spin In school one of Nlta's warmest was one big wow. She proved to be dle legs kicking out from beneath friends was little Florence Rinaldi. a first class vamp lady, whose pas the regulation uniform of the con She simply appropriated the last two sions were hot enough to burn .up an vent, Nita then knew no such han syllables of her friend's name, swap asbestos curtain. dicap as embonpoint. In those ten ped Nonna for Nita and became Nita Picture engagements followed one der days she had poise. Now she Naldi. And it was not hard to be upon the other. She obtained what has avoirdupois. At fourteen she was lieve that Nita was of Italian ances few screen actresses have obtained— the same daredevil and ringleader try. Olive skinned and oval faced, the screen love of the sheik of sheiks, of the girls. she could be taken for a Neapolitan Valentino. ' As Donna Sol in the Nita was unusually vain for h/er prima donna and she still can be .11 !...,$, age and immensely proud of her taken that way if you want to. long, thick, blue-black hair, which From the Winter Garden, where she washed every night, which was she was a showgirl, along with Jessie quite against the convent rules. She Reed and Lilyan Tashman, prancing devoured romantic novels and was up and down the runway and looking in the habit of drawing pictures of coyly down baldhead row with arti Spanish cavaliers or knights with ficial smiles, Nita proceeded to the plumed headdress, not dreaming, of Century roof midnight show. Here course, that she was ever to star she came into prominence by a clever with Rudolph Valentino in Blood and imitation of Theda Bara, then the Sand. reigning screen vamp. , Irish fighting blood. Jealousy and Johnny. And Nita Naldi-Nonna Dooley, far Theater managers began to sit up from being the Italian vampire her and take notice of the darkhaired press agents have made her, was beauty. In 1920 she played with Ed doggone proud of her Irish blood. win NIcander in Frederick Arnold She got into more than one hairpull- Kummer's play, The Bonehead, and lng match over the home rule ques her first legitimate attempt was well tion, and at one time she hung up a string of Saint Patrick's day post cards over her bed and dared any girl, at the risk of having her face disfigured, to knock the cards down. Then came the famous Baboon club that Naughty Nita organized, Nita Naldi, premiere screen seductress. much to the good sisters' discomfit ure. In it Nita gathered about her the best pillow fighters and mischief ROM cloak-and-sult model to kindly care and tutelage that the makers of the convent. Nita wrote artists' model to Winter Gar screen siren obtained her spiritual a little club song about the girls and F den chorus girl to the premier and Intellectual enlightenment. here it is: we«n seductress of the present .age. Born mischief maker. All within the Incredibly brief period US BABOONS. • Growing up to pigtalled and middy- "I love tall men," said Nita, "cspec of six years. Such Is the outline of Dorothy's eyebrows were the best, bloused girlhood, Nita was at the ially men over 40. A man ha* no history of Nita NaldL Flo's skin was just divine. same time the pride and the despair sense until he's reached that **»-" The logical successor to the man- She never used a bit of paint; of the good alsters. Bright and dili And here's the famou* ^a»p'» tie of that vamp of vamps, the fa Her color was gen-u-ine. gent In her studies, she was also pithy advice to girls on how to win mous Theda Bara, Mis* Naldi has Frances dear had pearly teeth;.. a regular mischief-maker among the a man; "Be a dumbbell, not a high romped to fame and fortune with Leah, she had dainty feet. girls, playing all sorts of pranks, brow. Looks are worth more than imazlng strides. Baboons, Baboons, my fair Baboons, books." from dumping epsom salts Into the We are the fairest beneath the One glimpse of' Nita Naldi, the nun's pitchers to telling spooky sto To tall, would-be vamps Naughty wotfc, and her dangerous eyes, is moons. Nita hands oui this gratutilou* bit ries and frightening the younger Talk about beauties, wo take first enough to convince the most cynical students. of philosophy: "Be dignified. You that heaven, home and mother are prize; ; . It waa Nita who gave all the nuns can't be enormous ana ftnd be cute.. euy to forget Oh, we're much' sweeter than apple Wear long, snaky things to accentu Pies. Fat threaten* vamp. ate your type. They slenderize." Tall and stately, of dark and It is no small wonder that the Above, Rod Larocque and Nita Naldi in "The Ten Commandments." Lower, Jack Holt makes love to the leading vamp in More musings from Nita; brooding personality, Nita Naldi romantic Nita was bitten by the "Don't Call It Love." "I consider John Barrymore and fifes one the impression of a Flor movie bug at an early date. The Rudolph Valentino the two handsom Fox and Peerless studios were locat est men iu the *orld." entine fresco or a patrician grande ness girl models her gowns and man ed right opposite the convent and received, so well, In fact, that Wil Ibanez picture, Blood and Sand, Nita she cannot shake herself free of the Nita's cleverest little observation tome of Naples. Nature endowed liam A. Brady engaged her for a part ners more and more upon those of Nita would often hang around the did a fine vamping job on Rudie. siren roles, either in reel or real is thi.-,: btr with a liberal architecture, for in Opportunity. Subsequent appearances were In the women whom the stage and life. People still remember her af of late she has been assuming the gates waiting to catch a glimpse of "The woman pays and pays—-but Johnny Dooley, the comedian, Glimpses of the Moon, You Can't Fool screen picture iu vampire roles." faire du coeur last year with one J. proportions of a Colossus of Rhodes. the movie stars. if sh*'s a smart linle girl she gets gave Nita her first chance at pictures Your Wife, Lawful Larceny, Every Nita't maxims. Searles Barclay, 50-year-old million Tfc» slim sinuousness of her girlhood away with an awful lot of change." Cloaking to chorus. and Nita, being very chummy with day Love, and The Ten Command But, as Nita says, try as she may, aire sportsman. To the screen vamp ton is broadening Into a more ma- (Copyright, lid, by The News, N. T ) It waa then that Nita decided to Johnny at the time, volunteered her ments, in the latter Nita plays the tars contour and many movie fans give up convent life and to seek to services gratis. Several enthusiastic part of an almond-eyed half-Celestial, •rs already suggesting that Nita tSluHMHIIIIHIHHIIIHIItMHHHMimmintMtllHMIIIMIMuFl all moved away because the neigh compelling the manufscturets of sail express herself in more glamourous capitalists and clothing merchants Sally Lung and plainly shows the •taild practice girth control. to retain Lh« iodine in their product. fields. had organized the Johnny Dooley effects of a non-dieting system. But borhood was unhealthy. The pond First—Do von consider that the The screen siren whom numerous Being liberty loving and strong comedies, to run a series of pictures what can you do with a woman who furnished the mosquitoes, the saw wat^r in Los Angeles contains enough Vr**j£Aii& have word painted as willed, the pigtailed, spindle-legged featuring the comedian. One of them confesses that she'd rather eat, than I How To Keep Well I mill hand furnished the infection, the 9* dai|gh»»r of a famous Italian iodine to k*»ep the body normal? convent girl, much against the will was called Hearts and Arts. In this walk or play golf and tennis? Dr.-DR. W. A. EVANS tenants furnished the cases and the diploma) and as a distant—very dis Second—If not, what foods wouli of her family, expressed herself to IMMIMMMIMIMIMMIIIIIIIflMI HUIMtl Nita was a Spanish dancing girl. Her dally dozln'. & •0 neighbors tagged the locality. tant— Ration of Dante's Immortal New York to study for the stage. you suggest, aa containing enough, Vamps the sheik. AVOIDING MALARIA. Beatrice, has no blood In her veins The lure of the footlights proved "I hate to do anything that r*H and in what quantity should they be Another instance: A sawmill in Uw would connect her either with more powerful than the prayer book; But it was doomed to failure. Nita quires exertion," says Nita. And s*ae OT all of thfc malaria belt of eaten? Gertrude Vanderbilt, of whom Niti Southern Alabama, worked by con to rod-shlrtlats of Garibaldi or the was jealous. the matinee more tempting than the quit, in a huff before it was half fin adds that she prefers her daily dozin' the United States is malarial. Third— Do you consider a catar In fact, one can come and go victs, had been free from malaria for black-shirtlsts of Mussolini. In fact, matin. ished and all over a spat. \*ith to the daily dozen. N rhal condition of the nose and throat in much of the so-called malaria sec years. A prisoner who was a malaria Jw nearest connection with anything "I was pretty raudi of a sap In Johnny about Gertrude Vanderbilt. "I'd love, to get. away from vam a local iniection or a systemic dis their nickname* (Slater Antlnssla tion during the malaria season with carrier was sent, to the camp. With Italian savors only of the spaghetti those days," Nita herself has said in the musical comedy star. While at pire roles," she exclaims, but I can turbance? dUh. for she was christened Nonna she labeled Sister Magnesia) and the studio one" day Nita noticed out taking any precautions and be in in a month there was an outbreak an interview. "I didn't know ham not.. The vampire virus lurks in Fourth—Do you consider the local who wrote many amusing parodies Johnny and Gertrude on much too no danger of contracting malarias A of malaria in the camp. A large part Dooley. the daughter of good, honest from eggs! I had just brains enough every woman's heart. By that I do antiseptic treatment usually admwis about them. She originated the coU admirable terms of friendship. Her careful person who kept behind of the force became sick with ^h folk of the kind George M. Co- to be a cloak model and after cloak not mean that all women mean >o tered lor such a condition harmful lege slang, ohief of which lexicon vanity piqued and her pride wound screens at night, who avoided mos malaria within a short, time.. *"*» lovfis to glorify. She was born ing for a while and, on the side, be love thieves or home wreeckers. to t.h* mucous membrane of the no»* was the epithet, "Oh. my gad!" ed, Nita never returned, to the studiu quitoes, and who was careful about right here in New York 26 years ago. learning the different dance steps, I "But they do not want to be irre and throat? which was rapidly taken up by the The picture was ruined and so were staying close to heavily infected peo A third illustration: Teasly's Mill, Mta, or Nonna, never did her pray- finally landed a job as a chorus girl." sistible in the affairs of the heart, other girls. For this she was almost the investors, but Nita had her own ple could come and go with safety Ala., was once a highly malarial vil JlfclPLY. "'"* •• to* !n the Slstine Chapel in the Vatl- The convent girl's debut on Broad either to one man or to several. Even expelled. , way. into heavily infected territory. Even lage, but in recent years there had First—TPS. • , % <*& at Rome, nor did she learn to way was made with the Passing Show the quiet little woman whose house l in those sections which are thought been but little of the disease. Nine Third—Loc*i. P*ak English and French in Alex- She was a goodnatured bully, all of 1918 at the \Vinter Garden, and Nita played In A Divorce of Con work Is never finished and whose to be heavily infected it. is probable teen hundred and twenty-three was a Fourth—No. Probably entertains «n