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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1922)
8 frs- o c3 1 e fie c f - f mXt:M ' Lover .cm "afe fair J h ' K wwra V1 4- -A s8TOi 3W--Ji JivA UMMwl f -"W 'It -im-- waoipno vaiennno ana a Love-man- vfiaSAM r W.- i 71 .l. J f f M WAt; K.SSSSSI- s il;liiifSff iaSMT"fa'5;iTr ing Pose That Set Thousands of , Mt?kl " ' ' fmmM$d If - f . Mill i t 4lmMtiWM 7 Hearts a-Flntter-Valentino and , Ht&M' iAkr '.XSSSm JJSjl SSg t " 4IPI W Terry in -Th, Four Mor: JMt, L VMlP Wffi tV' ' 'r?KSC r SBtfII'V:-.. WHEN the news went abroad 10,000 maidens sighed and removed his photograph Irom the central poslr tion on the dresser. At about the same time the clerk of the liOS Angeles divorce", court took a sharp look- at a desk 'calen- ' dar, consulted a file of legal' documents in his drawer and whistled- Almost imme diately thereafter : the district attorney declared that to the best of his knowl edge and belief Rodolpho Valentino was a bigamist. Whereupon 10,000" tnaldens said " Ah ! ": or words .to that broad and general effect, and restored his 'photo-' graph to the central position ' on the dresser. As long as he was nobody's he was theirs. j' ' . . " : . The great lover of the screen was put under arrest before he, had had a chance' to begin his honeymoon excursion. His. legal wife for Miss Jean Acker still had -that title even' while Rodolpho was, being wed a' second jtijne -collapsed when she heard the news. " ..Winifred, . DeWolfe Hudnut, the alleged illegal but none the less devoted-wife,' departed hurriedly for' New York' and with a' softly muttered "damn" went into seclusion while a corps of attorneys started straightening out her - perfect lover's love tangles.""-".' ' , ' Thomas Meighan and June'Mathis went .bail for the great lover. '"' ' An interlocutory divorce ' decree was granted Miss Acker and Valentino last January but Valentino .evidently over looked the fact that the' decree did not become effective until a year had elapsed. Less than three months later rumors of an engagement between him and Winifred Hudnut, stepdaughter of the famous per fume manufacturer and herself , an artist and a dancer, were heard about Holly wood. Before the rumors could be tracked down, Miss Hudnut and her sheik had rushed across the border into Mexico and tltere married. , '. . ,. ! . " ' . "Marry in Haste,' Repent " "1 couldn't wait," said Rodolpho when he found himself afoul of the law. "I had heard about men Who had been divorced in New YbrTc gbirig" over" into Jersey and marrying immediately and I thought this would be the same thing." . ' ; ; The perfect lover might have read the danger signal' in the experience of Frank Mayo, well-known actor in the world of motion pictures, and Dagmar Godowsky, actress and daughter of Leopold Godow sky, piano virtuoso. They married Oc tober 3 last at Tia Juana. He secured an interlocutory decree of divorce four days' before. Major Thomas McClelland, as sistant district attorney of Los, Angeles,' has had this .marriage under investigation- for some time. Before tracing the entanglements of Rodolpho from their beginning, it is only fair to the 10,000 sighing maidens that his real sentiments about love be made known. ' These maidens know him" as the Ash me uLPytcz i ruu uuc:,3) : r'-'f - ' jtxtSj' -'I l ined Hudnat. Who Asks Her 7 -If -! S I i1Sl V1S 1 f Lawyers' "Am I or Am I Not a 4w 'i4 wi Just After the.Marriage Cerempny in . Mexico .When Miss Had nut Be lieved She Was Mrs. Valentino. Torrid Sheik, or the swashbuckling Julio in "The Four HorsemenV or as the debonair wooer of Gloria Swanson in "Be yond the Rocks." ' The real Rodolpho is quite another person, with quite a differ ent love credo. ' ., He admits to a certain experience with women even outside the screen. But out of this" experience come the three major articles of his, credo. Here they are: l.; 'Never play at-love unless you feel the urge. - Insincere lovemaking is cheat- , ing and you cheat yourself most of all. 2. .Never try cave-man tactics on the woman you love. That's a sure way to lose her if she is" worth winning. -. ' 3. Be patient. Never try to kiss a woman at the first or the second time you meet her. . And never reveal your pur pose, whatever, it may be, until she is ; used to you and trusts you. Rodolpho began to learn about women when he was quite young. There was a girl Carlotta who used to sit with him in -front of a small cafe in Naples. He never did' more "than touch her hand. But life, with her was very sweet. Finally he went to Paris. Another world ODened for - himr a. word of jiches, gaye.ty and deceit. But what Carlotta had taught him he re- membered. He' never forgot that with out speaking a word or moving a finger he expressed to her a complete enthral ment,' an "overwhelming adoration. He never forgot, even though the "women in TTIE SUNDAY ' OREGONIA.X., Paris seemed bent on proving that love -was only a casual thing after all. ; - ' . It was in Paris that" Rodplpho became proficient in the Argentine tango an ac- complishment that he afterward used to such striking advantage in "The Four Horsemen." With this as his chief asset he came to ..New. York and danced in " cabarets along Broadway. ; ... After a while he drifted west. Somebody-noticed his regular, .chiselled, fea tures and coal-black eyes and started him s in the movies. The role of Julio in "The Four Horsemen", was his first of any im portance. And it made him.. . About the time he was getting his start In pictures he ;met Jean Acker. By now . the Neapolitan girl was remembered more as a principle tlyin- as :a woman. The " memory was 'still sweet. . But the per- . suasiveness .of the woman he could see was more potent. . He married Jean Acker.. , This1 marriage he 'soon found,, was an , entanglement,' lor it is Rodolpho's'definl- P.O.ItTLANt, JUNE 23. 1922L And an Anxio Not Because of the Sheik's Arrest for Having a Wife Too Manyi but Because He Has a Wife at All, Frctntc MSyo . and Dagmar ' Godowsky. Whose ; Tia Juana Marriage Also Under Investi- Ration, tion that any condition which binds and -chafes is an entanglement. This union lasted less than a year. - . "... ... When It was that Winifred Hudnut ,came Into, his life is not clear. .Long.be-. fore Valentino . was more than locally ' known Winifred Hudnut, under the name of Natacha, Rambova, had made a reputa tion as a dancer.-. : . .. This spritely, colorful girl .who is the focal point of Rodolpho's present entan glement, was born Winifred DeWolfe. She is the daughter of Mrs. . Edgar De Wolfe,, who afterward , married Richard Hudnut, the millionaire perfume manu , facturer, and the niece of Elsie DeWolfe, the noted interior, decorator. - ' - . , ." In 1916 she'.startled her family and friends by disappearing. A continent-wide . investigation was started, which resulted in her being located in Chicago as a ,mem ,'ber of Theodore Kosloff's Russian ballet.. She had determined ', on a stage career, 'and," when" tier" family" objected," started How Ten Thousand Flappers Spend out on her 'own hook.". It was then that she took ' the ' name . Natacha Rambova, which she has borne professionally ever since . .- - .- - ; When it became rumored around Los Angeles that Rodolpho and Natacha were engaged no thought was given to the re cent divorce " proceedings. Those - who thought about it at all concluded that 'everything' was in order and the way clear for his second- marriage. And, doubtless,' Rodolpho thought the same thing or lie wouldn't have been so naive about his return to California. - Douglas Gerrard, who acted as Valen tino's best man, says that If that wedding was: not legal he has lost his faith in all ceremonies."' ., Before leavving with his fiancee for Mexlcali, the Mexican city which is across the border from its twin, Calexico, Valen tino obtained a letter from the Mexican consul at Los Angeles directed to the mayor "of Mexican. V - ' . , The mayor, or the jefe politico, as he Is known there, was routed out of bed and presented with this letter when the Valr entino party arrived. Even though his slumbers had been interrupted the jefe pplitico assured' Valentino in his best Spanish that all arrangements for the marriage would be expedited. .i. But the Mexican-law is such that it took all of three days to complete these arrangements. When all the usual docu , ments had been, signed, and all the proper officials fixed,, the wedding party gath ered in the jefe's own home, where the senior judge of the district performed tha prescribed rites. ' .. At the. last moment, when some ques tions as to the legality of the wedding arose,- both Valentino and Miss Hudnut hesitated about allowing the ceremony to . take place. Everybody present, however, "urged them to go on. The jefe assured them that everything was in order and that he would stand back of the marriage himself. A deputy sheriff from across ; the border assured the principals that a marriage in Arizona under similar cir--cumstances would be legal. J. V J, . Like a Keel Wedding. " After .the ceremony, the jefe, who was an ardent admirer of Valentino's screen impersonations, saw that the whole town ; turned out to do him and his bride a j; sufficiency ot honor.. . A fete was held in ... the. Mexican style;-;. Valentino, who ' is ,adep ip. all, the romance, languages, made .". a flowery speech in Spanish after he and eon Acker, the Wife to Whom Rodolpho, Says the District Attorney, Is Still Married, the Di vorce Decree Not Having Become Effective. his bride had been eulogized' by every body present, including the alcalde, the jefe de policia and other magnificoes. ..-' Pretty girls crowded around and threw flowers, a musician played languorous love tunes, wine was passed and after a while the military band marched, and played American, Mexican and Italian airs. It was a successful international occasion. : .- . - The fete lasted until late. The band then accompanied the party to the border. The party returned to Palm Springs,-Cal. Three days later Valentino was put under arrest and Winifred whether Hudnut or Valentino she was not; then prepared to say started on her journey east. The complaint was sworn to by an at tache of the district attorney's office, who investigated the marriage and de clared that the Valentinos had been en tertained by Hollywood friends, including Mme. Nazimova at Palm Springs. This established the fact that he was in Cali fornia. The charge ot bigamy has since been dismissed in the township court of Los Angeles because there was not sufficient evidence that Rodolpho lived with Mrs. Valentino No. 2 in California subsequent to the Mexican ceremony. - - " On a Business Basis. .' George developed a journalistic instinct at the early age of 15.With the consent of his father and some assistance from the same source he bought an "amateur printing outfit" and started the Klinker ville Monthly Journal, subscription price 50 cents a year, payable -in advance. "I suppose you call yourself the editor and proprietor of this office," remarked an envious young associate who dropped in at his "sanctum", in. the basement of the paternal dwelling one day. ' . , . "Of course I do," responded the youth ful journalist. "I don't owe a cent on it." "Proprietor! Umph! Everybody knows you got $25 from your father to start it with." , .--"';' . "Yes, sir!" stoutly rejoined George. "And his subscription for the Journal is marked paid 50 years ahead on my books!" , , Novel Lighting Done. . At a country club near Chicago the.re is employed a novel mode of electric lighting. It appears that there are two garden foyers which form the terminus of the promenade, each of which measures 36 feet by 72 feet. The high arched ceil ings are tinted a faint sky blue. The light is all suppplied from a seven foot pedestal which contains two 500 watt gas filled tungsten lamps in silvered mir ror reflectors. Harsh shadows and glare are avoided with this indirect system of lighting, and every detail of the decora tions has been clearly brought out. Hypnotist Is Called. Toledo Blade. . . . "Robert," said the hypnotist's wife. " ; "Yes, my dear." . "I wish you. would come here and tell baby he's asleep."