New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 17, 1930, Page 12

FINE ARAB STEEDY 3 SEEM U. 5. BOUND ' 3 - British Taxation May Force Sale | of World’s Best London, Oct. 17 — The world's most perfect collection of thorough- bred Arablan horses is to be sold | by the Baroness Wentworth, and she belleves that England's loss will be America’s gain. The sale is in- | evitable, a sacrifice to the tremend- | ous and apparently never-ceasing tide of English taxation. But the | famous horsewoman's last gesture | of loyalty to the proud line of ani- mals which has become traditional with her family is the hope that | whoevér buys the Arab stallions and mares will keep the entire| stable together. And she fears that| nobody but an American millionaire | could do that. Since Its inception, the Crabbet Park stud has cost at least $5,000,- @bo, and the lowest price that even would be considered now would be Wwell over $1,000,000. So only the wvery wealthy need apply. | Thus will pass, probably to the | TUnited States, the animate sym- bols of a romantic family legend. Lady Wentworth's father was Wiltrld Blunt, who in addition to being & great land-owner was a poet famous for his verse trans- lations times. Her | mother was Lady Anne Blunt, granddaughter of Lord Bryon. Lady Wentworth Terself carries on the poetic tradi- | high of the Arab odes of pagan | when her parents dled, she just naturally carried on with the Crabbet Park stud. The ravages of war and disease Arabla have made her stable unique. In Arabia itself there are no longer any horses to equal hers. Animals from her collec- tion have been sold to improve the every horse-loving coun- | King Felsal of Fuad of Egypt.| in breed in try of the world. Irak and King who in other times would have sent to Arabia for horses, have had to have recourse to her collec- tion and have personally visited it. "It breaks my hedrt to think of parting with these glorious ani- | mals,” said Lady Wentworth.| “They are as much a part of the history of my family as this old house, which has been lived in by my ancestors for 300 years. But| I am suffering from the burdens of | taxation, as are all great| landed proprietors in England. U. S. Knows Her Horses | “As an Englishwoman, I nat-| urally would like to see the stud | bought by an Englishman and kept intact in this country, be- cause it can never be replaced.| But I would hate to see it bought | by an Englishman and then dis- persed by sales of ten blooded ani- mals here, fifteen there, and 80 on. That is why, if one of my own ccuntrymen cannot buy it and keep it intact, I would love to see | it acquired by some American of | great means, who could afford to | keep it intact. | “The stud already has many | | American associations. When W.| R. Brown of New Hampshire and| W. K. Kellogg of California| founded their famous studs, they | beught some of their choice speci- | mens from me. | “In their time, too, my horses| tions of both sides of her family by being on of the oldest of Eng- | land's living sonnetteers. Traveled in Arabia The, love stories in the life of her Mlustrious ancestor, Byron. are household tales. The romance in the story of her 85 well known, and out of it grew the Crabbet Park stable of fiery Arab steeds. Owing to 11l health, the voung poet was ordered to travel in the dry climate of the east. Accom- panied by his beautiful and ad-| venturous wife, he went to Ara- Lia, then even more dangerous for | Europeans than it is now. But| they both learned to speak Arabic| fluently, dressed in Arabic cos- tume, became blood-kin, so to speak, of the Arabs, and led their | life. Then the hereditary passion for fine horses seized both the young | gorle. For gencrations the unts, the Byrons and the Love- | Taces had spent big sums on fine | horses. Now the young pair were in the desert land where were‘ bred the finest horses in the world. | ‘They got for modest sums from | their Arabian friends specimens blue-blooded horseflesh that hers could not have bought for fyrtunes. b~ Carried on Hobby ® When Blunt returned to Eng- fand cured of his ailments, he de- voted a3 much time to his horses as he did to his books. Lady Went- ‘worth, the only child, was reared on poetry, Arabic and horses So parents is not | became famous in your country. In 1921 there was run a great en- | durance test. The horses were to| cover 310 miles within five days| time. My gelding, Crabbet, won, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930. FORTUNENEELECTS | PIONEER CINENAN France Now May Honor George| Melies, First Producer | BY MINOTT SAUNDERS | Parls, Oct. 17 — The world's first moving picture studio may be turned | into a museum, and the first pro- ducer of entertainment films s hop- ing for recognition as the instigator of an industry which, during his| span of life, has swept through every | land. | George Melies might have been one of the wealthiest of men, but| fortune turned against him. Now.| at 69, he conducts a little sidewalk top shop near the Montparnasse rail- road station here. A drive has been started to save| the studio of Melies at Montreuil, | near Paris, so that it may stand as | a monument to his genius. Melies was director of the Rob»] ert Houdin theater when Louis Lu- miere, whom the French hail as the inventor of the moving picture cam- era and film, began to show what he could do back in 1895. On Christmas day of that year he pre-| sented film strips of a few yards in length of a documentary nature. | Melies was present and was so im- | pressed that he asked Lumiere to sell | him the apparatus. Melies had his| big idea. i Lumiere refused to sell, how-| ever, so Melies went to work and | constructed his own camera. produced his first moving picture film. He called it. “A Card Party,” and it ran about 50 feet. His First Film Studio | Melies built his studio in the back carrying a weight of 225 pounds. In 1919 my mare, Ramiah, had scored the same kind of success in | the same kind of endurance race | g 217 pounds. In a similar | run some years ago in Eng-| ry mare, Belka, came first. | ago at the Richmond horse | show my stallion, Shareer, was | called the finest horse in the| world. | Some Understand Arabic “When I part with these ani- mals it will be like parting with | |scme of my own family. There js inot one of them who does not | by sight and by voice always taken a very | active part in their managenient | |and many of these horses have known me since they were foaled. | “No,” she added, “I can't speak | [to all of them in Arabic, for the simple reason that they have be- | come English as to tongue by rea |son of association with English | grooms. But some of them under- | stand Arabic as well as English.” carryil race land A yews know For I me have NERVY WOMAN PILOT | Frankfort, N. Y., Oct. 17 (UP) — | While government inspectors exam- |ined the airport at Talcottville | where her flying instructor, Richard | Yule, was killed | Lillian Wiltse of Frankfort success- | fully passed tests for a private | pilot's license. yard of his home in Montreuil. He | | was careful about expenses because | property and | he didn't know how the thing was|to make a living he opened his little | going to take. He just built a little stage in the open air and worked hard all summer until came and cut down his light. He could only operate from 10 a. m,, to | 3 p.m. | His films were selling, however, 50 | he enlarged his studio, making it about 60 feet long, 20 feet wide and | 20 feet high, with a roof ot glass. | Melies was the scenario writer, | producer, director, scenc painter, | stage carpenter and actor. When he was not acting he operated the camera, but otherwise his daughter | turned the crank. His fellow actors and actresses were chosen from among workers around the legitimate | theater. | The “Father of the Film" worked cautiously. Every time he got a new idea for an effect he had to invent his own machinery. He built traps in the floor and runways overhead so that his actors could come into the picture from unexpected angles, giv- ing his pictures a novelty unknown to the mtage. \( Was Real Pioneer Most of the tricks of the movie trade that seem so impressive today, Melies started in his humble way. September | in a crash, Mrs. | He bedecked his actors in fantastic juniforms and splashed his paint i brush around for lights and shades. | |In 1897 business was going so good | another step, that studlio. Melles again enlarged his He proved himself a genius for creating illusions. Despite the crudity of his apparatus, his films became widely known in France, un- til he produced at least two popular ! subjects a week and a “feature” about once a month. To do all this, Melies had to over- come the problem of lighting. When he found the day not long enough, with natural light, he installed arc lamps, increasing their number as he enlarged his studio. Here again he was a ploneer. Then he went still and used mercury- vapor lights. He made the first fade- out and fade-in pictures. Melies achieved perhaps his great- est milestone in film production when he was visited one day by M. Paulus, who was a popular music hall songster and actor—the Maurice Chevalier of his day. Paulus was not going so good at the time and he contracted to act in a series of films | for Melics. on the understanding that he would work incognito. Melies put him through capers illustrating his popular songs, and they were produced with the appropriate music. Those were days long before the “talkies,” but audiences recog- nized their favorite and Paulus again won fame under the direction and stage management of Melies. Made 4,000 Films Bigger and better pictures were produced, and such phantasies as “The Journey to the Moon” and Four Hundred Tricks of the Devil” | are still affectionately remembered. Melies did not rent his films, but sold them outright to producers. But he could not market his pictures in the United States because of copy- rights. He was still working hard and had produced over 4,000 films when the war came on. Then he was | Two | ruined financially and sold his pic- | months later, in February, 1896, he|tures for anything that he could get. t The ultimate thrust of irony came when he learned that some of his strips of celluloid were being used to make synthetic rubber heels. In 1918 Melies quite the picture business in despair. He lost his his studio and in order toy shop. Today he may be seen, bartering with children, a small, bald-headed, white-bearded, kindly old man. Only when he talks of the old days does the genius of Melies show itself. His eyes sparkle and with the mind of the producer he com- ments on pictures, old and new, “I was sure these days would come,” he said, speaking of super- films blazing on the boulevards, “but the business swept on too quickly for me. I at least have the satis- faction that I was right. “All T ask for today is recognition of what I did over 30 years ago.” He will be pleased if his studio will become a museum, but happier still if an appreciative goveynment would bestow upon him the red rib- bon of the Legion of Honor. He says he wants no financial reward. Circus Freak So Skinny He Slips Through Bars Lille, France, Oct. 17 (UP)—Po lice are scouring the region of Lillc for Marcel Pouchet an escaped con vict sentenced for theft, who owes his getaway to his extreme thin ness. 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