He hung around cabarets doing odd jobs, sweeping out for the waiters, washing cars; he was lazy handsome wellbuilt slender good tempered and vain; he was a born tangodancer. Lovehungry women thought he was a darling. He began to get engagements dancing the tango in ballrooms and cabarets; he teamed up with a girl named Jean Acker on a vaudeville tour and took the name of Rudolph Valentino.
— John Dos Passos, from U.S.A. Love this passage about the death and funeral of Valentino from the “Celebrity” issue.
