Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1930, Page 27

Couple Were Separated Day Afler Marriage by Charges Ag ‘That terrible journey from Hollywood to New York that Interrupted our honeymoon in May, 1922, is one of the most unhappy memories of my life. | Here 1 was, separated from Rudy the very day after our marriage; involved | 1n the hideous notoriety of a trumped- bigamy charge; hurtled upon a| Joumcy that was speeding me 3,000 miles away from him; bound by orders that our marriage was not legal and we | must live apart for a year! It was a gruelling experience. To make it even worse was the paralyzing fear of the effect of all this notoriety on Rudy's career. Would it cause his Ppictures to be barred? ‘This might very probably happen | Let one breath of scandal besmirch his name and the career of a screen star is | ined. It falls like a house of cards has been proved countless times. Ab that particular moment echoes of Fatty Arbuckle's crash were still rum- bling in the cinema world; there were others whose names had gone equally dead on a less serious charge. Xow, as though to confirm my fears, | came the blaze of newspaper publicity | which attended my entire journey, | making it still more of a nightmare. I ‘was hounded, pestered by reporters. | Besieged by Papers. At every station between Los Angeles and New York they boarded the train in throngs and swarmed about me like stinging gnats, besieging me with ques- tions. I could not possibly escape them I had no such thing as privacy. I had taken the train at an hour’s notice and couldn’t get & stateroom or compart- ment—not even a section to myself, only a lower berth, in which I secluded myself as best I could, drawing the curtains about me, refusing to see or talk with them. But they stood out- side, 10 strong at times, and gleefully thrust in at me their journals shrieking with lurid headlines—lies about Rudy and me! Still worse, they intercepted the tele- grams we sent each other along the way. I would get off at a station to wire Rudy and then I would read my own messages and his answer to me in the papers before it was delivered me on the train. It was a cruel, unfair procedure. Be- cause of it I have never used that com- pany’s lines since then. In New York the newspapers still pursued me. Reporters followed me on the streets. To avold them I had to | use the servants’ entrance of hotels or apartment houses, sneak around like a thief in the night with cautious, stealthy movements. Even then there was no escape. They leveled their | cameras at me whenever I budged from | my room, even to leap from the back- door of the hotel into my mother’s motor. If I had had a gun I believe I would have shot them on the spot, resigned to | suffer the consequences. As it was, I| used to pray that an earthquake might ; | swallow them up. For years the very word “reporter” made me see red. - Parents to Rescue. In New York I stayed with my par- ents, Mr, and Mrs. Richard Hud‘;lu( They were planning to sail for Europe a few days, but when they per- celved the extent of my predicament | and how utterly wretched I was, they unul;% xfi’n‘fir &a&‘i}nge nnd decided to r, their country home e Adirondacks. - i Foxlair was a magnificent estate, some six hours’ motor drive from New York, ‘\Ir:’ry Secl;lgoeg with a hunting some acres of mountain land in all its pristine wildness, on a | beautiful little mountain lake. But it required more than secrecy and seclusion to make me happy. My grief was inconsolable. Of course, Rudy and I wrote and telegraphed each other 4aily, and several times a week I drove 10 or 12 miles to the nearest village to make long distance calls to Hollywood. The only time I could be sure of reaching Rudy was around midnight of Eastern time, for all day he was at flu studio and I could not talk freely to him there. So at dead of night or in the wee small hours, over thousands of miles of buzzing wires we shrieked at each other messages of love and as- surance, and the hope that we might soon be together. It sounds humorous now, but it was tragic then. Happily, as soon as the bigamy charge been proved false and dismissed, and Famous Players were assured that his picture would not be barred, he had begun work on “The Young Rajah” there in Hollywood. He sent me “stills” of his picture, which he declared was gdn' splendidly and would be finished thin a few weeks. Soon every letter md telegram brought forth the glad news that as soon as it was completed he could join us at Foxlair for a vaca- Rudy in Comic Disguise. . Both of us were living for that day. Rudy’s arrival at Foxlair brought the first laugh I had had for weeks—the first real laugh since that dreadful I _had left Hollywood. I thought | well! | wop” and made fun of his wrist watch THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO: The Truth About Rudolph Valentino NATACHA RAMBOVA, HIS WIFE ainst Actor. Natacha took the train for Ne" York, l!lrlng Rudy in Hollywood. I hatl forgotten even how to smile until Rudy’s car came whizzing in the drive- 'u.l! and he leaped out crying glee- y. “Look at me—my own mother wouldn’t know me.” In the hope of avoiding further news. paper notoriety he had made the jour- ney from the coast “incognito”—at least he himseelf believed in the dis- guise. He had grown a full beard, which, strangely, was red, though his hair was black. His tell-tale slant eyes and the upper part of his face were | hidden behind enormous dark goggles. He wore a faultless tweed golf suit, a bag of clubs was swung over his shoul- der and a soft gray cap pulled over his face. His smile reached from ear | to ear—the famous Valentino smile | pow known all over the world. Of course, he had fooled no one but himself, Newspaper reporters had fol- lowed him every step of the wa: | persistently as they had followed me. | He had treated them more courteously than 1 di but he was bound on a happter errand. And he had thoroughly enjoyed the characterization of pre- tending to be some one not himself. | The faithful Gerry, who had seen us through our ill-starred marriage in Mexico, had made the journey from the coast with Rudy. To avoid the army of reporters who, they well knew, would bombard them in New York City, | they had left the train at the New York | State line and escaped by motor to the Adirondacks. Those who tried to fol- | low were left far behind in clouds of | dust. Now here he was and all was Lavishes Rich Gifts. Every cent of his salary from the| picture just made he had spent in San | Francisco on presents for me—exquisite, | impractical presents, the kind Rudy | always made. Proudly he exhibited | rare pleces of ivory, delicate Chinese silks and a solid gold set for my dress- | ing table—everything that I did not need. Of course, he himself was pen- | niless. But what matter? We were together. So here was I, with solid gold combs for my hair, laden with frankin- cense and myrrh and not a dollar tween us! Childish, impractical Rudy! He had been sent to San Francisco, he explained, to make the boat race scene of “The Young Rajah,” where he had rowed with the crew of the Uni- versity of California. All the crack athletes of the university had been as- tounded at the skill with which Rudy handled the oars, although he had had little experience as an oarsman and no training whatever in teamwork until he joined the college crew for a prelimi- | nary tryout before the camera started shooting. Rudy was really a remarkable ath- lete. Any man who doubted this| learned it quickly enough in the per- | sonal demonstration Rudy was always happy to give him. Many a smart- aleck screen actor who in those early Hollywood days had called Rudy “the — GOLDEN DAYS IN Southward into the salt breeze... flying-fish skimming the turquoise sea... palm-islands floating into your daydreams...blue mountains of Cuba .the crumbling ruins of some cient city of the Dons... golden d of rest and recreation in the roman- di an- ays tic lands bordered by the Caribbean. Cuba, Jamaica, color reels of Caribbean pageantry. Golden days with the Great White Fleet, famous for its food, its com- fortable outside staterooms, eourteous personal service, and Guatemala, 24-day eruise . . . . Panama Canal Zone, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guate- mala, Honduras—seven charming its the cordial, friendly passengers who al- | Edinburgh, H carried away a black eye in proof of wh:c;her or not the wop was effemi- na Physical fitness was almost a reli- gion with Rudy. As soon as he could afford it he kept a private trainer with whom he practiced daily. He enced like e rode a horse EUROPE s CUNARD LINE, 52 days, $600 to $1250 Madei , Spain, Algiers, Italy, Sweden, Norw:y. Holland, Belgmm, Paris, London, Rhine, Oberammergaa assion i’lny)—nlect clientele; the most and best for your money. MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE, Jan. 818600 up Hotels, drives, fees, etc. nwl::: A P & Clark, e ing, New York City ivie Before you go to EUROPE— SEE AMERICA FIRST Rainier National d_Canadian The tour 1§ res) BT price. E. R. ROCHESTER TOURS onal Bank Blds, Ticket Office. Come with me &> EUROPE can accept a few more ua!avnxons if made NOW, for our_ personally - con ducted trips offered this vear: two to Europe. including & Passion Play side-trip to Oberammergau at mo extra cost —one to the Mediteranean. one & ound and across North r our trips were so ea enfovable that this vear many Washinatonians are urging their 0 | Writer phone of call for my free hooklt-l O Il I N TRAVEL BUREAU 212 Colorado Building 14th and G Sts. VW Phone Naf ways prefer it when they treat them- selves to a cruise in the Caribbean. Great White Fleet liners enjoy the nction of being the only ships in the world built #pecifically for tropical cruising. Jamaica, B.W.1., 14-day tour . . . $200 up 21-day cruise . .. 22.day cruise . . 2275 up 8275 up 8275 up All Expenses Included Sailings twice weekly from New York. Get booklets and information from your Steamship— Tourist— Railroad Agent, or Passenger Department UNITED FRUIT CO. Steamship Service 17 Battery Place New York, N. like a centaur, was a strong, beauti- ful swimmer and wum ‘wrestle and box with the best of them. He had the perfect physique of a boxer; his uppercut was something to conjure with and hgfl:\oot'm’k ;IA'" hgll:;l l.ng as psey’s. But, althoug! mond this sport, a serious defect in his eyesight kept him from making & name in it. Sought te Join Army. An attack of malaria in his childhood had left the vision of one eye badly impaired; he could distinguish colors and light with it, but he could not distinguish objects. This defect, al- though not visible in his appearance, had kept him out of the army, which he had tried many times to join. In 1914, less than a year after his arrival in this country, he made every effort to rejoin his own military class, called to service at the Italian front. Later in California he tried to join the British flying corps by experimenting with an airplane. But his vision barred him from every branch of the service— a great disappointment to him, since the war, at the distance from which he viewed it, seemed full of romantic venture. His enemies sometimes called him a slacker—an unfair opprobrium that made him inarticulate with rage. Physical cowardliness was not in But to return to the story: With Rudy’s and Gerry's arrival and our happy party complete, Foxlair sud- denly changed from a prison waste into the ideal spot for a vacation. With its fine, natural lake and fishing pond and its private golf links, there was o lack of sports. There was also hunt- ing and fishing in abundance, for wild deer prowled over the mountains and the woods were full of small game. its, my mother, who had been as anxious as I was, rejoiced to hear laughter again. Buoyed up by youthful enthusiasm, we fancied all our troubles were over. | But alas! It was only an interlude. Far worse troubles were soon to begin. (Copyright, 1090, in the United States a d foreign 'countries by Natacha Rambova. All rights reserved.) Two Resign Radio Firm Posts. CHICAGO, April 19 (#.—John C. Tully, president of the Steinite Radio Co. and subsidiaries, and Arthur T. Haugh, general manager, have resigned their positions, it was announced yes- terday. The two men took charge of the radio concern less than two months ago at the behest of creditors. —_— ‘The recent automotive exhibition at The Hague is reported to have been a success. févni | D. RALPH CAPONE HELD BEER MILLIONAIRE Brother of Scarface Al Pictured as Magnate in Tax * Trial. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 10.—The portrait of Ralph Capone’s counsel, painted of a “poor race-horse man,” was retouched by Government witnesses yesterday to show a magnate of the beer-vending trade with bank depogits nearing the $2,000,000 mark. Second in age and notoriety of the four Capone brothers, he deposited a total of $1,851,840 in the Pinkert State Bank of Cicero in the period from Jan- uary 1, 1924, to April 22, 1929, accord- ing to evidence given in Federal Court by Archie A. Martin, special Govern- ment agent. Clearing house sheets sup- ported his testimony. Other witnesses introduced as the | Government closed its case against Capone told of the half-dozem aliases under which he kept his various bank accounts. He is charged with violating the income tax laws, a charge his bet- ter-known brother, “Scarfare” Alphonse, Chicago gang boss, likewise faces. Most of the 50,000 additional acres in Sumatra planted to rubber in the last ear are owned by Americans. SEE EUROPE in 39 Days The opportunity will not come again for 10 years to see Vacation Tripe, of All Time dustors, All sxpens an ugus| :xupuannl value. Experi -rmu. nflfu Bed by, old-establistie i aomnl Bach part: || it W 2! membe: Many applications received. 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