Death Claims the New Valentino

Radio Record, 19 August 1938, Page 36

Death Claims the New Valentino

UEUCEDEEEREDERECOODAD TRU CUSETOCES OOOO DSUCEOCETESE ADU ED ECE EE SDDS SL PCEUEECEEEASTDSTOAUESEUED COPED UCL ODE RCE RE EELEDS GEEEDE SED PREES EBEPELEODE) |S it bad luck for anyone to consider playing the role of Rudolph Valentino on the screen? That question is brought to mind by the death of Jack Dunn, who died the other week in Hollywood from a_ streptococcus infection caused when cigarette ashes blew into Dunn‘s eyes while he was driving. Valentino died at the height of his career, Jack Dunn’s death came just when. his screen career was about to start. . It was Sonja Henie who first brought him to prominence, when he acted as her partner in ice-skating soon after Sonja‘s arrival in America in 1936. Hollywood saw Jack Dunn skate and was conquered. He all but © stole Sonja’s thunder, and their partnership soon ended. After that, several films were announced for Dunn to appear in, but nothing definite was done till the announcement recently that he would portray Valentino in a life of the screen’s greatest lover, to whom-as you can see-he bore some physical resemblance,