8 Jul 1926 – Pola and Rudy Vie on Screen

Pola Negri and Rudolph Valentino maybe subjects for cupids attention
and they may be married in Europe next year, as Pola’s mother recently
announced. But box-office rivalry goes on just the same! This fact is
strikingly borne out by the appearance of Rudy and Pola on the screen
this week at different theaters. Valentino opens today in a special
premiere showing the “The Son of the Sheik” at the Million Dollar
Theater. This film is a sequel to “The Sheik” and marks his return to
the burning sands and equally burning love scenes that proved so
successful in the earlier picture. Valentino will have as his guests at
the second performance this evening a large party of motion picture
stars. “Good And Naughty” is the new alluring title of Miss Negri’s new
vehicle, which will be seen at the Metropolitan beginning tomorrow. The
polish star plays a role wherein love is the inspiration that leads the
heroine to throw off her dowdiness and reveal her true loveliness.