New York. Aug. 17-(AP)—Despite a rise in his temperature tonight the condition of Rudolph Valentino, motion picture star, was reported “unchanged” in a bulletin issued by three surgeons who operated on him Sunday for appendicitis and gastric ulcers.
An earlier bulletin said that the star had passed a fairly satisfactory day at the Polyclinic hospital, to which he was rushed after collapsing in his apartment Sunday night. No mention of the local peritonitis which set in following the operation, and made Valentino’s chances of recovery doubtful, was contained in tonight’s bulletin. The crisis is not expected before from 36 to 48 hours.
Valentino’s former wife, Jean Acker, sent a telegram saying she expected to leave for Europe Friday but would endeavor to see him before she sails.
Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME, August 18, 1926
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