Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1930, Page 7

D. C, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The Truth About Rudolph Valentino i Will Now Buy What $1.2 Bought Although Foxlair was remote and se- «luded, even here we were not safe from spies and the inevitable reporters. “They were always under foot. They | came disguised as hunters or as casual moterists who had “just driven in to see | & the place,” but who left promptly when | informed that no visitors were welcome. Rudy's producers, we discovered, were , keeping close watch on all our move- ments. As 1 have already explained, his pro- ducers had no love for me, I was an abominable nuisance who coached him on what to demand in the way of proper salary and a higher type of pictures which should give freer scope to his acting. Not pictures like “The Young Rajah”; that was quite unworthy of his abiljty, ‘since it stressed only his skill ir. love making and his charms with women. Rudy himself was getting fed Up on being only the sheik, the great lover of the screen. He wanted to do something better. The terms of the contract he had made with Famous Players-Lasky gave him the right to O. K. his picture and .choose the director for its production. And Rudy had chosen for his next film “Don Caesar of Bezan,” for which June Mathis had written the script. By the terms of the agreement, the interiors for “Doa Caesar” were to be made in New York, but the real location was to be Spain, a_thing which made Rudy ecstatic, for he was wild to go to Spain. Ii we could both sail with my mother and father, we could ctill be together and what pleasure this would mean for all of us! Plotted Against Bride. Of course, as things turned out, Rudy neved did make that picture. It was roduced not long after with John Gil- ert in the title role. Rudy had not been in Foxlair long then telegrams from his producers showed they were drawing in their horns on the original agreement. They in- sisted he must return to Hollywood and make his pictures on the coast. This he refused to do. In his firm refusal his producers sensed that I was the dea ex machina at the root of all the trouble. So, thought his producers, if they could devise some clever move to get rid of me—perhaps ship me to Europe with my mother—they would have Rudy to themselves. Past experience had taught them his weakness and how to deal with him when I wasn't there to interfere Besides. they believed a romantic actor shouldn't have a wife, anyway. And what better method of railroad- ing me safely out of harm’s way than to start some more trouble during our ‘vacation at Foxlair, where we were liv- ing under the same roof, though chap- eroned to Mother Grundy's own taste by my mother, Mr. Hudnut, Gerry and & whole houseful of servants? If some mnew scandal could be hinted, they were well aware that, rather than ruin Rudy's career, I would go to Europe with mother or Rudy would return to Hollywood. In any event, we would be separated, and that was what they wanted. I relate the following incident for | ‘what it is worth. The reader may draw his own conclusions. Spy Invades Foxlair. Foxlair was so secluded, so far re- moved from _civilization, we were not accustomed to lock doors and windows at night. It had never seemed neces- sary. But one dark evening toward 9 o'clock one of the maids saw a man drive up in a Ford car, which he parked in the heavy shrubbery below the kitchen. This looked a bit suspicious to | her, but, since Mr. Hudnut was in New York on business and mother had been in bed all day with a sick headache, she did not mention the incident, not wishing to worry us. However, she caréfully locked the back part of the | house. After dinner the night grew intensely | dark and heavy showers came on. It was the blackest night we had had since we came. After the storm had passed, Rudy, Gerry and I were playing poker in the big front living room. Through this room a screen door led to the veranda, a huge veranda 12 feet from the ground which surrounded the entire house. My chair at the card table faced this door Rudy and Gerry were sitting at my Tight and left, so they could not see | what I did. What I saw madc my flesh creep—the screen door was opening, slowly, cau- tiously into the empty blackness of the night. Startled as I was, I looked back at my cards and said in a low voice to the boy “Don’t look up or appear to notice it, | but some one is on the veranda; I just saw the screen door open a trifle.” “Nonsense!” said Rudy. “It's only wind ) ‘But no wind is blowing; it is too sultry.” Gerry Fights Intruder. ‘Then again that ghostly opening of the door and back of 1t the outline of & man! So I said in a still lower voice: | “I sce a man peeping in. Uncle| Dickie's revolver is in his top bureau drawer. Gerry, you run up and get it | and Rudy and I will keep on playing cards as though we had noticed noth- far Gerry arose, saying monchalantly, | *“It's my turn to get the drinks tonight,” and sauntered unconcernedly out of the | room. Rudy and I sat there, not daring | o look up lest we spoil the neat little game we had planned, waiting for | Gerry to come back. | But why didn't he come? What had | happened? | We never suspected that, revolver in hand, he had run quickly down the backstairs, out the back door and t'p- toed stealthily along the veranda to the front of the house. The first we heard Was Gerry's voice ringing out: “Damn you! Hold up your hands or Tl shoot!” He had taken the eavesdropper by surprise. W Rudy and I stood spellbound during | the scuffle in the dark that followed. It was punctuated by muttered growls, ! the thud of heavy bodies—then a si- | lence that seemed interminable and at last three quick shots. Far out in the | darkness an agonized scream. Then | dead silence, i We both rushed to the window, | shrieking, “Gerry! Gerry! Are you killed?” ; No answer. i Like a flash Rudy bounded up the stairs shouting, “There’s a shotgun in your mother’s room!” I flew after him &t equal speed. Gerry's Been Killed. Mother, who had retired early, was Jying in the darkness when Rudy burst in shouting “Gerry's been killed! The shotgun! Where is the shotgun?” While mother fumbled for candle (we_had no electricity at Foxlair) Rudy | " GET NEW ENERGY Because they liven the liver and| cleanse poisonous waste from the in- | Tutt’s Pills bring re- energy and improved | testines, Dr. freshing, new health. Mosquitoes, most Hous. holdPests Valentino wearing selzed the gun and was off, I hanging to_his coat tails. “Don’t do it, Rudy!” I was scream- ing. “You'll be disfigured for life. Re- member you belong to the screen—the public.” Followed another scuffie in the dark, this one between Rudy and me, wh'ch ended with both of us flying out the | front door into the night. When some 10 minutes later we re- turned, mud-bedraggled, still toting our | gun, we found Gerry standing in the | living room, so thoroughly drenched and mud-encrusted that only the whites of | his eyes and his tecth shone through the clay mask to identify him. He was administering first aid to mother, wh a moment earlier, had entered the liv ing room with the candle and, mistak: ing Gerry for the miscreant, had screamed for help and fainted. And now the story came out—as much of it as we ever learned. Gerry, on the veranda, had seized the intruder by the coat just as he was about to escape. Catlike, the man had turned on Gerry and, pinioning him by the arms, had pitched him headlong | over the railing with its 12-foot drop to the ground, which fortunately was rain soaked and spongy, so Gerry was only stunned, not killed. A moment | later Gerry picked himself up, ran after the man and shot at him blind—three times, just like that! “I know I hit him because I heard him scream,” shouted Gerry trium- phantly. “He got away, but I'm sure he’s only lying dead or wounded out there some place.” “Let’s have another look,” cried Rudy, disappointed because he had been “done out” of his share in this exciting drama. Found Trail of Spy. Armed with lanterns, the three of us made one more round of the grounds, but in the pitch blackness of the night it was useless. The culprit, it was evi- dent, had escaped. Next morning mother, who declared she had not slept a wink, told us that toward dawn she had seen the Ford car disappear down the drive and out the | big front gates. In broad daylight we found the man’s footprints and the im- |- press of his body where he had fallen over a low wall. There in the mud lay several broken cigars that had tumbled from his pocket. The station master at North Creek, who knew everybody for miles around, | told us when we made inquiry that a| stranger had left by the early morning train, a man who was in evident pain | and walked with two canes, holding one | foot from the ground. He was well | RRRE) a vacation smile, dressed, tall, young and good looking He had driven up in & Ford car with another stranger, bought a ticket for New York and boarded the train, while his_companion drove quickly away. Who this man was, whether burglar or detective, or what his mission might have been, We never learned; we could only guess, but we did a lot of conjec- turing. By this time the disagreement with Rudy's producers had reached such a climax that we realized the matter re- quired legal action. We must go to New York and put the whole thing into the hands of a lawyer. Serious trouble was_brewing and we could not handle it alone, One heavenly Summer morning we sorrowfully bade good-bye to the beau- tiful mountairs of Foxlair and our whole party set forth for New York— and trouble. (Copyright, 1930, in the United States and foreign e by Natacha Rambo ‘,Nn’u’) You Can Wear —|‘ FALSE TEETH | Without Embarrassment Eat, talk, laugh or sneeze, without fear of false teeth dropping or slipping. | | By sooes. "pus Makes breath pleasant. Fasteeth today at any other drug store. Buy Now — Save Money Handy-Mandy Self-Wringing Mop No More Wet Hands. Makes 49(: Mopping a Real Pleasure iyt Institute On Saleat 'SERIES OF FREE LECTURES SWAMI AKI:IILANANDA An authorized representative of Ramakrishna order of Indi ement in America was founded a ia Fe time of the World's Fair at Chicago t 4 in 1893 by SWAMI VIVEKANANDA. 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