“Cal York,” writing under the pseudonym formed by the two locations of the main editorial offices of Photoplay magazine, asks:
Is Rudolph Valentino wearing a wig in Blood and Sand, or did he permit his slick hair to be coiffed into the curly mop you see under this Spanish cap? Cheer up—it’s only temporary. Later on in the picture. he looks more like Julio [his character in the hit, Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse].”
Rudolph Valentino in Blood and Sand
“Such Friends”: 100 Years Ago… is the basis for the series, “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I and II covering 1920 and 1921 are available as signed copies at Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA, and also in print and e-book formats on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. For more information, email me at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com.
Later in the year I will be talking about the centenary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
If you want to walk with me through Bloomsbury, you can download my audio walking tour, “Such Friends”: Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
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