Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1930, Page 3

DORAN GALLS WAR ON ALCOHOL FLOW , Agents Are Ordered to Tighten , Lines to - Stem Diversion, By the Associated Press. Prohibition enforcement officers. throughout the Nation yesterday were ordered by Prohibition Commissioner Doran to put forth greater efforts to prevent diversion of industrial alcohol to_bootleg channels. In instructions sent to officials of the prohibition service, the commis- sioner said that nothing was more im- portant frem the standpoint of effec- tive enforcement and protection of public health than to deal effectively with criminal operations based on mln"lpullunn of various alcohol prod- ucts. “I would like each administrator,” he said, “particularly of those districts ‘where alcohol control is a problem, to miake a thorough survey of his inspec tién force activities with a view to em- ploying the greatest number possible on these diversion problems. Any unusual or new operation that comes to your attention should be reported promptly, as our ability to deal effectively with changing conditions rests to a great extent on the promptness and accuracy with which we are able to note these symptoms of changes.” The commissioner said that in no fleld was there call for a display of greater intelligence and poise than in the permissive fleld where commerce :lnd industry must receive considera- on. Doran said that “only a certain amount of routine inspection with re- spect 4o doctors and druggists is neces- sy sary. Substantial quantities of synthetic methanol 4s coming into the market, | the commissioner said, and there is some danger involved in the increased use of this material for solvent pur- poses. !~ He asserted that the usage of mixed methanol and denatured alcohol, under | the general designation of denatured ; alcohol products, was attended with ' danger, as criminal operators might put on the market illicit beverages of large methanol content with “attendant dis- astrous results to drinkers.” ' EMERY WILL DISCUSS EARLY-DAY WASHINGTON .Eociety of Nations to Hear Presi- dent’s Address at Meeting Tuesday Night. Days when snakes shimmied across TFourteenth - street hill, when a stage coach carried passengers from Park road to the Treasury and market place, and ‘when race tracks flourished on Columbia Heights will be pictured before the Columbia Historical Society by Fred A. Emery, president of the Society of Natives, in an address Tuesday evening. His subject will be “Mount Pleasant and Meridian Hill.” ‘The address will be the feature of the 253d meeting of the society. The meeting will be at 8:15 pm. in the hall of the Cosmos Club. PLANS GRAVE‘ DECORATION Chaplain at Fort Myer to Supervise Memorial Day at Arlington. Following: the custom of previous years, the chaplain at Fort Myer, Va., will supervise for the personnel of the Army and Navy the decoration of graves of relatives and Iriends in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial day. It is suggested that a standard floral emblem in the form of a wreath 22 inches in diameter be used as far as it will be acceptable. Such decorations as are sent to the chaplain’s office at Fort Myer will be placed upon the graves as soon as received. Requests should be received not lat.r than May 26 and should indicate the name, rank and organization of the deceased and, if possible, the grave or lot number. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Free lecture, United Lodge of Theo- (osophists, Hill Building, Seventeenth and ‘1 streets, 8:15 pm. Subject, “The Great Quest.” Religious services, Bethany Chapter, No. 24, Masonic and Eastern Star Home, pm. Service commemorating the promul- gations of the edict of Nantes, Hugue- not Society of Washington, St. John's Church, Sixteenth street and Lafayette square, 4 p.m. Hike, Red Triangle Outing Club, around Wide Water to Great Falls, meeting at Cabin John Station on Glen Echo line at 2:30 p.m. The Truth About T y ’ NATACHA RAMBOVA, HIS WIFE Public Interest in Famous Movie Star Has Never Diminished ANY stories have been written about Rudolph Valentino, hut few are true. Generally they were written by people who scarcelyknew him. Perhapsthey knew the screen hero, but not the real man as he was; for this they drew on imagination and hearsay, usually to| absyrd results. That is why I have been asked to wi this story—to tell the | truth for once! Strange as it may seem to the undis- cerning, interest in Mr. Valentino still lives. Even now, four years after his death, a revival of one of his pictures brings crowds stam| the box office for one more glimpse of that romantic actor whose successor has never yet been found, to the great lament of the producers, Since appreciation of his work has survived the man himself, it is only fair that those who recognized his art should have a true picture of him, not a lot of trash and bosh. Unfortunately, the more famous he grew, the more the stories circulated about him were colored by malicious in- sinuations that cast him in a false light, One of the great penalties the screen star pays for fame is that of having false innuendoes cou))led with his name. The public clamors for the intimate life history of its Wr\llll’ idol; rumor and | shrewd imagination combine to supply this demand. Victim of Distorted Image. The result is a lot of unscrupulous publicity cleverly designed by ma or producer, or whoever profits by his ictures, to build up for the public that image of him that will stimulate cheap interest and increase box office receipts. Often it is a distorted image, no more like the man himself than a wooden Indian is like a flesh and blood chief. No one ever suffered more from this than Rudolph Valentino. In most of the tales told about him his character, motives and ideals were drawn at such twisted angles that the image which finally emerged to be held up before his adoring public was a mere cnr;fioflx o{ the man, in which dll.l his WO) eatures were exaggerated. We who knew him intimately and were aware of his finer side, could scarcely recognize it. As for Rudy hh'nsell(—lt revolted him! Not a Lounge Lizard. The legendary Rudy, who fed on mash notes, the lounge lizard, the pink powder-puff man, the sheik with only a gross, sensory appeal was no more | the real Valentino, the Rudy I loved and married, than East is West or black is white. But it was as the “great lover” of the screen he had drawn greatest box-office profits. Therefore, the great lover he must remain at the sacrifice of everything else. This forced him into a role he hated :«;lphy, h: role g: :vl}:lxcll} hew:u wretch- ly unhappy. But Hol gossip ac- complished its aim. o . In reality, Rudolph Valentino was a great one of the few the screen has produced. If he had not been, his fame would have died with him; he would be forgotten now. But he sup- plied to his public a particular need, which no one else ever filled—a spirit of chivalry and romance associated with a bygone age, but the desire for which is eternal.. It is something glamorous and fanciful, suggestive of the adventurous romance which every woman secretly craves, whether she ad- mits it or not. Too Young for His Fame. But he wasn't given credit for the real art he had. His unusual abilities were neglected to emphasize the grosser side—sex appeal, women, night life, flir- tations—anything that would create a wider shopgirl public and a few thou- sand more fans. Rudy was too young to realize how stupid public criticism is. He was too young for the fame that came to him. In his forties or fifties, perhaps, he might have stood up against that tidal wave of adulation and flattery, but in his twenties—it wasn't human not to be broken by it. ‘The cumulation of it all warped his entire personality until eventually it made him ashamed of that finer side of his nature, not seen or understood. This is the essence of his tragedy, as I shall try to make clear. People who knew him on the screen were invariably surprised when they met him in private life to discover what the real man was like. If they expected to find the sheik, they were disap- pointed. Recently I met in London a well born Englishwoman whose hero he had been for years. She said she had dreamed of ; she was crazy over him, ‘woman said to me: The Two Valentinos. “When I met Valentino himself, I was amazed to find not my romantic hero, but just a boy, quite frank and sincere. Why, he is only a child! At first I was disillusioned, but in another way I liked him the more.” There were two distinct Valentinos— Rudy the artist and Rudy the man. The one was the swashbuckling cavalier who flashed across the screen into the hearts of millions. The other was a Swedish services. First Baptist ! Church, Sixteenth and O streets, 3:30 pm. FUTURE. | _ Meeting, Woman's Relief Corps, No. | him. 8, G. A. R. Hall, 1414 Pennsylvania avenue, tomorrow, 8 p.m. SPECIAL NOTICE. 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He would be thinking how handsome his horse would look in his new silver trappings from Mexico or how .much speed he could get from his new motor car. He had a mania for motors. He would rather lie under an auto- ‘mobile 1'1: “: ‘p;elr of greasy om tin- at a night club%‘m most n.t;:? tive woman in the world, 3 A Dashing Crusader. . Cultured, cosmopolitan men liked Rudy. They appreciated his finer side, but the self-styled, 100 per cent American, with his lack of culture and his one-track mind, wrote him down as a weakling and looked to find noth- ing good in him. All the romance and attraction associated with Rudy’s name, and. which men of this type a few hundred years too late. He have been born in the Middle Ages, when men wore armor and, swords, fought duels and won spurs by a into battle fight for a principle—or a He would have made a ‘would f g i) e f of fun. but no stand flippant criticism of his acting. “ | steamer to Hampton Rudolph Valentino in “Monsieur Beaucaire.” gesture with which to shake out = lace knew them intuitively.” part; he lived it. The character he was portraying was a personality with which he identified himself until he be= came its living entity. It was as though he made of that character a shell into which he stepped, with all its mental workings and physical habits. This transfiguration began when he started studying the script and continued until the last camera shot was finished. Then he discarded the shell and became Ru- dolph Valentino again. ‘When, in “Blood and Sand,” he was playing the role of Gallardo, the torea- dor of the peasant class, he discarded all his fine manners to assume those of the peasant. He ate like a peasant, walked like a peasant, thought and be- haved like one—actually seemed ill at ease in his own well groomed clothes. ‘While doing the early part of the pic- ture, where Gallardo is a young boy, Rudy was impish and prankish about the house. His laughter and sense of fun, even his mental reactions, were those of a boy of 13. It was useless to discuss any questions that must be an- Of this role Natacha Rambova says: HE»SUN'DAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 13, 1930—PART ONE. Rudolph Valentino DISTRICT NATIVES | T0 DINE APRIL 25 Annual Event Will Mark Tenth Anniversary of * Society. ‘The annual dinner of the Soclety of Natives of the District of Columbia, commemorative of its tenth anniversary, will be held thé evening of April 25 at the Raleigh Hotel. ‘Three distinctive features are pro- vided in the anniversary program, ac- cording to Fred A. Emery, president of the society. It will commemorate the laying of the corner stone of the Fed- eral District, down at Jones Point, be- low Alexandria; it will be the occasion of a special tribute to Theodore W. Noyes, one of its members, and will pro- vide a vehicle for a portrayal of the present and future Government build- ing program in the National Capital. ‘The principal speaker will be the author of the Federal building program. Representative Elliott of Indiana, chair- man of the House committee on public “He knew just the proper erchief or take a pinch of snuff. He was never told these things; he swered by Rudolph Valentino. It was as though I n adopted child in the house. This would have been very try- ing ¥ it had not been so interesting. Emotions Come First. He was not a great actor in the sense that Sarah Bernhardt or Edwin Booth were. Sarah Berniardt intelligently studied a role until her brain dictated the emotions. Rudy couldn’t get any- thing to his brain until he had first felt it emotionally. He had no imitative quality, but startling dramatic ability that absorbed | oy everything about a role to the most de- tailed mannerisms. In.“Monsieur Beau- caire” he knew just the proper gesture with which to shake out a lace hand- kerchief or take a pinch of snuff. He was never told these things; he knew them intuitively. But Rudy was really a psychic, as he later discovered. His extreme sensitiveness enabled him to tune in on a personality or a phase of life and so interpret it faultlessly. Herein lay his genius. ‘This, then, was Rudy, the artist, the dashing romanticist. Outside of his act- ing, he was a combination of a very ordinary young man who loved to tinker with automobiles or take every clock in the house apart, just to see how the wheels went round, and never put it to- gether again—a young man inordi- nately fond of mechanics, like thou- sands of other young men, and a little boy who would never grow up, hence needed some one to iook after him. Outwardly, an aggressive, swagger little 3 ays looking for a fight; but in- wardly, a pathetic, lonely little boy, al- ys being hurt, infinitely grateful to iny one who was kind to him. ‘This last was the Rudy I learned to know and love, for, it should be re- membered, at the time we became en- gaged he was not Valentino the great lover, almost smothered by adulation and fame, but a lonely foreigner on the Metro lot, unknown, snubbed and ridi- culed. (Copyright, 1930. in the United States and Toreign countries by Natacha Rambova. All rights reserved.) CONGRESSIONAL NAVY EXPERTS WILL VISIT AIRCRAFT CARRIER Senate and House Committeemen to Go Aboard U. 8. S. Lexington to Wit- ness Maneuvers. The mine layer U. S. 8. Aroostook will be at Washington Navy Yard on April 25 to take members of the Senate and House naval committees on a visit to the U. S. S. Lexington in the Hamp- ton Roards, Va., area. Representative Ruth Hanna McCor- mick may have won a smashing victory in the Illinois primary, but as a member of the House naval committee on the forthcoming inspection trip, she will be unable to travel aboard the Aroostook, the explanation being that there are no accommodations for women aboard that vessel. Mrs. McCormick and other women will have to take the passenger Roads, where a tug will transport them to the Lexington, one of the two noted airplane carriers. congressional delegation will be met on the Lexington by Assistant Sec- retary for Aeronautics David S. Ingalls. The tentative program calls for an in- spection of the carrier, which has just completed maneuvers with the Uniud‘ States fleet in Carribean waters. Acting Secretary Ernest Lee Jahncke, in a letter to members of the congres- ! slonal delegation, advised them that the visional -~ program includes “the Egnchm: of the aircraft squadrons at- tached to the vessel; a demodnstration of the varying formc of aircraft attacks on surface vessels, an exhibition of air- craft d u;-l:llueombtt., nmg the landing aboard of squadron af the completion -of their ‘various mis- 5. “I am certain the day will be crowded with interest, and that members of the Congress who attend will gain valuable | acquaintance with the activities of naval aviation as they exist afloat today, e wrote. | k is scheduled to leave gton Navy Yard at 4| the afternoon of April 25, o'clock in 820-TIEST.NW. and will place members of the party aboard the Lexington on the morning of April 26, and, returning, will arrive at the Washington Navy Yard in the fore- noon of April 27. Comdr. Charles M. Austin_ has ‘been appointed as liai- son officer between the Navy and the congressional delegation to arrange de- tails of the trip. OFFICIAL MUST QuIT LISBON, April 12 (#).—The govern- ment today decided to dismiss Gen. Filomeno da Camera, high commissioner of the Portuguese colony of Angola in Africa, when he arrives here early next ‘week. The dismissal is an outgrowth of the affair in Angola last month when Lieut. Moraes Sarmento, assistant high com- missioner, was shot down in a conflict . with the Loanda garrison. HEADS CONFERENCE Miss Louise Beall Is Named Inter- City Chairman. Miss Louise Olga Beall, secretary of the Associated Charities, was elected chairman of the inter-city conference of the District of Columbia- Maryland and Virginia at a meeting at the Social Service House of the As- sociated Charities Friday afternoon. ‘The meeting, the regular semi-annual session of the conference, was attended by representatives of the family wel- assistant fare agencies of Baltimore, Richmand.’ Norfolk, Lynchburg, Roanoke and Petersburg. Supervision and trlmlng of new workers was discussed. EI Street, director of Washington’s Com- munity Chest, spoke on ‘“Publicity for Family Welfare Societies.” Plan Annual Outing. Arrangements have been completed g: ]:ha ,annual outing of the City helg o be fixed. ‘T. Bowman was ap- pointed chairman of the committee on arrangements, and several addresses were delivered. Discussion on_ several bills now before Congress which affect employes of the District of Columbia was one of the important events of the mi"ml- although no definite action was taken. Ndiseless AUTOMATIC OIL BURNER Association, which will be at Chesapeake Beach at a date to ‘George COAL buildings and public grounds. Mr. El- liott will discuss what the program means to the Washington of today and | the Washington of the future. | "Each year the organization com- | memoratcs the historic incident of the |laying off of the metes and bounds of | the original area of the District of Co- {lumbla. It was in April, 1791, that the | corner stone of the District was laid at Jones Point, whose quaint light house location is today one of the landmarks in Potomsc River travel. President ‘Washingtou's proclamation by defining the boundary lines of the new home of the Federal Government included Jones Point as the southern edge of the Fed- | eral City. Washington’s interest in the {new city been the theme of many |addresses before patriotic organize- j tions, and it has been recalled in con- |nection with the observances that, | Madison and Jefferson and Monroe |took enthusiastic interest in the be- ginnings of the Capital, serving with Washington on the committee for se- lection of the site of the Federal City. ‘The interest of Jefferson and Monroe was recalled in a letter which Fred A. ‘Emery, as head of the society, has re- telved from Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, a great-granddaughter of Presi- | dent Monroe. The chairman of the dinner com- mittee is Mr. Emery, chairman of tickets, Miss May E. Hungerford, the Avondale, 1734 P street; chairman of decorations and arrangement of tables, Irwin L. ‘The full committee on the dinner will be announced later. SCIENTIST 1"0 LECTURE | Dr. Oliver H. Gish to Give Ad- dress at Carnegie Institution. “Natural Electric Currents in the Earth's Crust” will be the subject of a lecture by Dr. Oliver H. Gish, chief of the section of experimental work in terrestrial electricity, department of terrestrial magnetism of the Carnegie Institution, next Tuesday evening 4t 8:30 o'clock in the assembly room of the institution’s administration build- ing, Sixteenth and P streets. The lec- ture is open to the public, but tickets, which may be obtained at the office of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, will be required. . Actress Sued for Desertion. CHICAGO, April 12 (#)—Gladys Deering, New York musical show act- ress, known in private life as Mrs. Claude Rosenblum, was named in a cross bill for divorce today on of desertion. She already had t charge. sult against Rosenblum on the same | Dogs to Be Gifts For Walter Reed’s ; Blind Veterans 4 = "prosesds of its Spring, show o sl to a worthy charity, and this year it chose the Walter Reed Hospital war blind. Miss Mary Donnelly is chairman of the committee in charge of the show. She is being assisted by Mrs. E. T. Shields, president of the American Woman’s Legion; Mrs. Albert N, Baggs and Mrs. Wal- lace Chiswell. TRAFFIC FORFEITS ORDERED STOPPED Motorists Seem Ignorant of Law Requiring Appearance, Says Judge McMahon. Motorists are not allowed to forfeit collateral and thereby avoid coming to Traffic Court after being arrested for speeding, Judge John P. McMahon warned yesterday, in saying that at- tachments are issued for all failing to keep appointments at court to answer speeding charges. Automobile = drivers seem to be ignorant of this fact, McMahon said, and several attachments have to be sent out from court every day. The judge pointed out that it may be quite in- convenient and embarrassing for the motorist who has to be served with an attachment. Police have no set time for calling. They might get a person out of bed or might force him to give up an important engagement by serving the order to bring him to court. Other common traffic charges where the mere forfeiture of collateral is not sufficient are, reckless driving, driving while drunk and leaving after colliding. McMahon said that when a person does not appear in court after posting money in these cases the collateral is automatically forfeited and he also faces fine or imprisonment on the charge. —_— As an example of sacrifice during the difficult economic period in England, Sir Francis Joseph, chairman and man; ing director of ‘a colliery company, has reduced his salary from $25,000 to $15,000 a year. |FEDERAL WORKER 1 PRESENTED GIFTS Associates and Friends Honefy Dr. Alvin T. Gregory After 50 Years’ Service. In honor, of his 50 years of service for the Government, Dr. Alvin T. Greg=* ory, contract settlement clerk in the office of the supervising architect of the; Treasury Department, was present yesterday afternoon with two gifts ' an appropriate ceremony arranged by, associates and friends. 2 The presentation was made by George Von Nerta, technical officer of the or- ganization, who reviewed Dr. Gregory’ service as “very honorable” and chate. acterized with “great success.” The gifts were a Gladstone bag and travel- ing case. In responding Dr. Gregory recalled being appointed as a messenger .in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing 50 years ago, April 13, 1880. It was in" the early days of the telephone, and one of the instructions on hig card, he! said, was that he was “to learn the use of the telephone.” He served in the Pension Office for 17 years and transferred to the Treasury Depart-, ment for fleld work at Detroit in 1897, returning to Washington July 1, 1903. Dr. Gregory in his work now prepares settlement letters for transfer of prop= erty in the Government’s big construc- tion program. —— Producers’ sales of Jeaf tobacto in. Virginia totaled 13,685,725 pouncé dur- ing February. EDISON STEWART WARNER 'RADIO SETS Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Szt in Trade There are rione Better and Few as Good. GIBSON’S 917 G St. N.W. | Roses, Evergreens, | Gude’s Garden Shop 747 14th Street N.W. District 5784 “Everything for the Garden” Bulbs, Garden Tools and Supplies. | Japanese Cherries, Flowery Crab Apples, Rock Plants. See Our Back Yard Garden A Complete Landscape Service Shrubs, Perennials, PAINT Half Prices Discontinued Items of Well Known Makes. Among. these are very seasonable goods, such as g Screen Enamels Four-Hour Enamels Auto Enamels Flat Wall Paints Outside Paints Varnishes STOP ROOF LEAKS Bay State Red Roof Paint $1.50 Gal. 4-Inch Brush, Bristles Set in Rubber, 89c Expert Paint Advice Free MUTH Quality Since 1865 710 13th St. NW. 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