Evening Star Newspaper, April 22, 1930, Page 23

D. C., TUESDAY, PRIL 22, 1930. — THE E G _STAR, WASHINGTO b G ] The Truth About Rudolph Valentino NATACHA RAMBOVA, HIS WIFE Producers Cut Actor Off From All Chance of Working. ‘The trouble that awaited us in New | Rajah” in Hollywood, even though I York was far worse than we had feared. | had to fly to New York, that he might Rudy suddenly found himself involved | make his other pictures in the East, in colossal litigations against the wealth- | where we could be together; second, dest, most powerful organization in the|that he might have the privilege of | motion picture indus “y. Its giant ten- | choosing his own pictures in the future, tacles were so far ramifying, its influ- | and, third, of choosing his own director. ence so widespread that Rudy in his| None of these promises had been efforts to combat them was helpless as| kept, which constituted Rudy's case & lone swimmer in midocean with every | against them. ewrent and wind against him. But these important facts were not His fight with Famous Players-Lasky mentioned in the papers our lawyer made cinema history. Other screen!drew up. The only points stressed in Actors since motion pictures began had the case he made were ridiculous, petty had their tiffs and bouts with pro-|annoyances and complaints—that Rudy ducers, but these in comparison were | didn't have a dressing room of his own mere children's quarrels, in which the |and between shots had to sit on a stump children were spanked and made to|in the sun; that he was bawled out be- behave. : fore extras and prop boys in the studio But Rudolph Valentino was a world- | —other things that belittled him in the famous star. the popular idol of two|eyes of the court and the public. What Valentino and Alice Terry in a scene from “The Four Horsemen.” continents, with a gigantic following of fans, enormous pulling power at the box office. All the facts involved were man in his sanity would go to court for petty grievances like these? ‘Why & so-called intelligent lawyer 80 startling, the punishment he had to take was so0 severe, that the case at the time blazed in newspapers over the entire world in headfines like those which a few years ago had announced victory or defeat in the war zone. But this was back in 1922 and 1923. ‘The world very quickly forgets. So for| the sake of those who are interested in learning the truth of the story I will briefly review the high lights. To start at the beginning: should be so little interested in winning his case was something neither Rudy nor I could understand—until later. As a_result, Famous Players-Lasky were granted a complete injunction against Rudy, one of the most paralyz- ing injunctions ever issued by an Amer- ican court. It barred him from pro- duction of any kind, not only on the screen and the stage but from any kind of work whereby he might earn a legiti- mate livelihood. By the terms of this streets for a dime, drive a taxicab or !)ull weeds in any one's garden—noth- ng whereby he might support himself. And our finances in their usual pre- carious condition! Kept Wife Off Stage. Of course, this violated the personal liberty of a citizen of the United States, | boss. so it was quickly modified. Yet even so it was bad enough. 1 myself could have supported us both quite ‘easily by dancing in vaudeville. Many offers of this kind were made me, but always when I came to accept them 1 found them suddenly and mysteri- ously withdrawn. We were checked on every side. Meanwhile how were we going to live? Fortunately, a friend in need, Joe odsol, then president of Metro, came o our rescue. What we would have done without his generosity and kind- ness I sfarcely dare think. The help he gave us was entirely free from any security on Rudy's part—indeed, we had none to offer. Joe did not even ask interest on his loan nor accept it when offered. This unselfish proof of friendship will never be forgotten. Al- though the monetary debt was paid immediately, the injunction was modi- fied to permit Rudy to work, yet there are some debts money cannot pay. Our debt to Joe Godsel is one of these. Rudy’s case against Famous Players- Lasky, finally settled after long litiga- tion, was significant in this respect: It changed the entire attitude of pro- ducers toward their stars. Hitherto all screen actors had been mere pawns in the producers’ hands. What. the actors wanted or liked was of no conse- quence; the producers were the big . They ridiculed and belittled the stars at will, and the stars kowtowed before them; for over their heads was held the gun of calamity of loss of ~ontract if they peeped. Won Actors’ Battle. Now _everything became suddenly quite different. On the Famous Players’ lot in Hollywood every star had his or her special dressing room; private bun- galows for their use sprung up like mushrooms; everything was done to make their work as agreeable as possi- ble. This sudden right-about-face in the treatment of actors was very amus- ing to us who had a sense of humor— likewise gratifying. This radical change in attitude extended to all other organ- izations in the industry. But all this is a little ahead of my story. In his litigation with Famous Players things continued to go badly until Rudy and I changed lawyers and secured Max Steuer to handle our case. It was during these first trying months in New York that Rudy and I first became interested in psychic mat- ters. I shall tell you something about this, for it brought about a great change in Rudy's life and made him much happier. Through its influence he was able to communicate with his mother and others dear to him in the spirit world. Through it Rudy and I were able to communicate with each other almost immediately after his death. I was on the Riviera at the time he passed away in New York. Our interest in the psychic arose in this manner: It was during the litigation that June Mathis came on to New York to confer about writing the scrip for “Ben Hur.” She hoped to get Rudy released to make this picture. What a wonderful Ben Hur he would have been! As things happened, of course, he never played it. Ramon Novarro did it, and very beau- tifully, too. ‘While June was with us her mother, Mrs. Jennie Mathis, died suddenly in New York. Mrs. Mathis was a.wonder- ful woman, and Rudy adored her, as he did all older women who took an terest in him and mothered him. was exemplified in the affection he had for my own mother, my aunt, Pauline Frederick’s mother, and many others. In reality he cared much more for all of them than the young flappers and rls of his own . . funeral he became age. At Mrs. Mathis’ acquainted with a close friend of hers who had the gift of automatic writing. A few days later this friend sent Rudy a message, saying: “Take this or leave it, as you like, but I was asked to deliver this message to you.” It was a sheet of paper penciled with words written backward, from left to right, and could only be read in a miror. It contained a message from Rudy’s mother, who had died in Italy some years before, and an old nurse, of whom-I had never heard. It men- tioned incidents in his childhood known to no one in this country but himself. At first this scared Rudy almost out of his wits. He didn’t know what to make of it. But the circumstances sur- rounding it were so weird, the incidents referred to so uncannily true, that curi- osity piqued him to investigate it. It was the first time either he or I had Free Parking Space Opposite Eighth St. Entrance Expert Hosiery Repairing 3 Miss IyVlolly Kavaljian formerly of “The Hosiery Hospital” Main Floor. come in contact with any psychic phe- nomens, so naturally we were skeptical. We_ were certain things of this kind could be explained in ordinary ways— if not proved frauds altogether. Never- theless, we agreed to have dinner wi this friend and talk it over. ‘The more we investigated her gift of automatic writing, the more convinced we became of the great truth that lay behind it. We formed the habit of meeting at my apartment one or two evenings & week, and it was not long until Rudy discovered that he himself had the gift of mediumship. As doubt in the authenticity of these messages passed, the writing suddenly ceased to come backwards and came in legible form. Rudy discovered he had a particular guide in the spirit world known as Black Feather, the In- dian, who often talked with him. 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