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VNVV^?wwRodolpho Valentino in Blood andWOi\ot because 01the Sheik s Arrest For Having aWife .A Love-'laking Pose That SetThousands c! Hearts a-FIutter —Valentino and Alice Terry in ‘ The Four Horsemen.*’WinifredHudnat,Who AsksHer Lawyer*“Am I or Am I Not a Wife?Just After the Marriasre Ceremonyin Mexico When Miss Hud nut Believed She WasMrs. ValentinaA BO V E—Jean Acker, the Wife to Whom RoJoloho, Says the listr!ct Attorney, I Still Married, the Divorce Decree Not Having Become EffectiveWHEN the news went abroad 10,000 maidens sighed and removed his photographfrom the central position on the dresser.At about the tame time the ckrk of the Los Angelos divorce ccurt took a slurp look at a de'-k calendar, consulted a file of document* inhis drawer and whistled. A *nost inxrae liatelythereafter the district: attorney declared that tathe best of his knowledge and belief Rodoipbo Valentino was a bigamist. Whereupon 10,000 maidens said ah, or words to that broad and general effect, and restored his photograph to the central position on the dresser. As long as hewas nobody's he was theirs.The Great Lover of the Screen was put.auder arrest before he had had a chance to begin h:j honeymoon excursion. Hts le.'al wife—for Misi Jean Acker stilt had that title even while Rudolph© was being wed a second time—collapsed when •he heard the pews. Winifred Do Wolfe Hudnut* the alleged illegal but none the less devoted wife, depart* 1 hurriedly for New York and with a Eo:tly mattered damn” went into seclusion while a corr * ? attorneys started straightening out he: perfect, lever';' love tungUs.Thomas Meighan and June Mathis went ba.i for the Great Lover.An interlocutory divorce decree was granted Mis* Acker and Valentino last January but Yal-trv.ino evidently overlooked the fact that the decree did not become affective until a year he i elapsed. Less than three months later rumors * fan engagement between him and Winifred Hud-i.ut, step-daughter of the famous perfume manufacturer and herself ar. artist and a dancer, were beard about Hollywood. E- fore the rumors coulj be tracked down, Misa Hndnut and her Sheik had rushed across the border into Mexico and then married.S''-** ( The mayor, or the JefeHr- . r-vdtico, .s ■* ■wt there, was route Ibed and presented withwhen •Wf; / er.tino party arrived.*■ Even though his slum*5 bcrs had been interrnpt-ed the Jefe Politico, U3-sored Valentino in h.sft Spanish that a1! ar.K , ranger.? ent for the mar*|: \ ringa wouli be expedited. .1jHL.«A But the Mexican lawIs such that it took all of three days to comp ete these arrangements. When all the usual documents had been signed, and ailthe proper officials fixed, the we •-.iir:g partyered in the Jefe’a own home, where the senior fudge of that district performed the prescribed'ffiWfc ^ f 11At the lest moment, when some questions as to the legality lt;-f the wedding arone. bcrn Valentino and Miss Hudnut hesitated a. ;-ut :iK■ ©»the ceremony to take place. Everyoo :y present,however, urged them to go an. The J\-fe lthem that everything was in order nr. I that he would *tand back of the marriage himself. A deputy sheriff from across the bprd; : .-tssur .pincipais that a marriage in Arizona under similar circumstances would be legal.Like a Reel WeddingAfter the ceremony, the Jefe, who was an ardi-nt admirer of Valentino's screen impersonations «av that the whole town turned out to dohim and his bride e sufficiency of honor. A iV* was he Id in the Mexican style. Vale • -o, u-h adept m ah the romance languages, mule n f.owery speech in Spanish after he and his bride had been eulogized by everybody present, including the alcalde, the Jefe d Pol.:: a «icu othermagraficoes.Pretty girls crowded around and threw flowers, a musician played languorous love tur* .wine was passed and after a while the militaryband marched and played American, ifc-caiand Italian aira. It *.vas a successful mu.-;-national occasion. ■ - jaSmThe fete lasted until late. The band then accompanied the party to the ho; cr. The pn :y returned to Palm Springs, California. Three -i.yilater Valentino was put unde- arrest . . V. freu—whether Hu-inut or \ alentino she is no:prepared to say—starteu on : .ourney es^t.The complaint was sworn to by an at‘ach-3 of the district attorney’s wfFiee, who inve :sgatlt; i : emarriage and declared that the Va,e: ti.nos hadbeen entertained bv Iio'lyw©’ J friends, including‘Marry in Haste, RepentI couldn't wait,” eaid Rodolpho, when he foundhimscif afoul of *he law. “I had heard about men who had been divorced in New York going overinto Jersey and marrying immediately and I thought this would be the same thing,”The Perfect Lover might have read the dangersignal In the experience of Frank Mayo, well-S;ro«n actor in the world of motion pictures, unJDkgmar Godowsky, actress ar.i daughter of Leopold Godowsky* piano virtuoso, i ney married Oct. 3 last at Tia Juana. He secured an interlocutory decree of divorce four days before. Maj. T nomas McClelland, assistant 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 10,009•ifliir-ij maidens that his real sentiments about love be r. ade iovm. These maidens know him as:h© Torrid Sheik, or the swashbuckling Julie in “The Four H.-r.enien, or a* the debonair wooerot Gloria Swqpson in Beyond the Rocks.” Tbgreal Reioipbo 13 quite another person, with quitda different love credo.He admits to a certain experience with worn «n even outside the screen. But out of this experience come the three major article* cf hij credo. Hare th« gflBjflKT.,■BrjiJCj1. Never play at love unless you feel theurge. Insincere lovemaking is cheating—ar.dyou ch*at yourself most of olL2. Never try cave-man tactics on the woman you love. That’s a sure way to los* her if she it worth winningFrank Mayo and Dagmar Godowsky, Whose Tia Juana Marriage Is Also Under Investigation.fr ; ante N a Raro-rnW bpva. which she hai^ SB borne professionallyeverKBSR When it became ru-M mored around LosAngeles that Ro-cioipho and Natiflj£|pj wen tngAgeu no inought was given to tbe recent divorce proceedings. Those who thought about ::fit ail concJuaea u*at evtrytnirsg was in order andlue way acw** b*a ^ecor.■: :uama*fe, Ar*Jdoubtless Koao.puo tnoughf the same thing or hewouldn’t have i*en so naive uoout hi* return to(.aiiformo.Douglass Gerrard, who acted a? Valentino * best man, says that if that idmg wag not legal he has !o»t his faith in ail ceremonies.Before leaving w.tn his ffancee for Mexicali, the Mexican city which is across the border from its twin, Ca.exico, Va:it.no obtained a .eiterfrom the Mexican consul at Los Angeks, directedto the mayor of Mexicali.XcwkMlHT I f jiuf# s+rrft *. IS25grounds forearc
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South Bend, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 07, 1922
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