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THE CHINA-MAIL, TUESDAY,--JULY 17, 1951.
It's love-in-ashes at the Villa Valentino
T
HE place is just a few minutes' drive from the big, bustling hote where I was staying.
Thirty years ago, everybody who meant anything in movieland lived in Whitley Heights. Let me take you there.
Now the aren is doomed. They are building a new road, the Hollywood Free- way, and soon its concrete will come right. through Whitley Heights to bulldoze a host of once-held-dear things.
This villa where From my Hollywood
we are standing now
is No. 6778, Wedge- diary... brought back
wood-place.
Its former owner by R. M. MacCOLL
who was christened
Was
a
Valentino with Vilma Banky to
Son of The Sheikh
1926
・11 pictures all told. But these 11 thrilled millions.) in only
In the rubble...
Rudolph Alfonzo Refaelo Pierce so for it has defied the efforts Filbert Gulielmi di Valentina of the souvenir-hunters.
But they have done plenty to ho when d'Antonguolia
of the place, which born in Castellantea, Italy, had the rest the world and the world's has been largely looted
The house is built round
seizure by the Los Angeles women by the cars during.
great sunken living-room with THE Ville Valentino under his brief, explosive career.
black gloss tile dooring and municipal court. Someone is claiming that he had an agree- (Remember hitma i "The walls of mirrors.
the ment with a firm of contractors the of
In fact, every room In
that includes Ove to have the whole place moved Apocalypse"? Remember, the place and
for to another site. lango he did at the start of the bathrooms-bad mirrors
walls.
Some money was paid down Alm?)
His bedroom used to have but the villa stayed put.
the ceiling,
Not long ago they found on gold leat all over
statue haif hidden most of that has been alabaster
In the rubble of the gurden. stripped away.
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When He died, broke, aged 31, a quarter of a century ago next month, they gave him funeral which for sheer emo- fional upsurge has rarely been matched even in America,
but
a
(Remember "The Sheikh"? That is to say they found just
Better not see if in revival, frankly, because,
語 looks
Valentino used 10 spend awfully corny today. But of,
£1,700 a year on shirts.
But
and
of the houses
what it did to
the girls back
To the pool
now the approach to the Villa there in the 1920s...). Valentino is melancholy squalid. Many are empty and nearly in ruins. The terraces, which must have looked fine by moonlight al: those years ago, are smash- ed and cracked now.
into
the left foot a woman's fool-
of the statue, which Valentino had imported from Italy.
Who was It? The Goddess Diane, or
of Valentino's one girl friends?
1
MESSADIO
TORCH OF LIBERTY, PERSIAN STYLE.
Weld Coppriest. By derangemetz kun pasy Herald.
THIS IS THE FIRST OF A NEW SERIES OF ARTICLES WHICH EXAMINES THE POWER OF RUSSIA TODAY
HOW STRONG IS RUSSIA?
By IAIN COLQUHOUN
OW strong is Russia? (Valentino took a flying stab
That is the question but he was "The at marriage,
which more than uny the Great Lover," you know and ET us go out
isn't for Great other haunts the Western It is
of marriage
Without too a riot
world today. 4 garden.
bougainvillea Lovers.)
much wishful thinking, it tropical plants hibiscus and the rest-falling
The last kiss steeply over severa¡
may be safely said that in away
and
it We shall also have to look at to the mosaic terraces
eventually its comparative form The Broken glass ...
pool at tited awimming
Russians too. and try to assess her political mave the Villa Valentino haunts the everywhere, very bottom. .is
to annihila If it came to a trial of mili- strength, in which perhaps the vital factor is the morale of her pool still or let it go down The sides of the LITTER
of the new empty beer cons, broken
brooding sun-. tion in the path
the de- the regina. shine, and the diving platform road doesn't really matter any tary strength between the people and their feelings toward sparkle in the
would be
glass, and unglamorous-looking bits of old cars.
cars,
(Valentino, an ex-dish-washer, liked to drive great, rakish the not super-sports standardised, bloated, ali-look- trundling alike jobs that are. atong bumper to bumper on the Cahuenga Pass over there.)
It says "Villa Valentino" In the mosaic on the threshold of the masslye front door. I shift- ed a beer can or two to read 11. The mosaic is so lough that
S
J
WHETHER they
a
(about, 21 percent) refers only to the cost of maintaining the standing ariny, nowy and air force.
סת
The whole material military preparation of the country, the paramilitary training, the coller- thon of reserves and war stocks concealed in the budgets of
which have: departments obvious connection with defence. Tolal Russian expenditure for military purposes in 1950 will
of the trudget, probably amount to 53 percent totalitarians and and service- more.
detalled burnished looks
who filed past mocracies, who
To make such
This is only one example of The women
scrutiny of the Russian scene the room for misunderstanding. able. But the pool is half full
his bler for days and days on
after he died have likely to win?
far from easy. Among the earliest Another common source of errer of rubbish.
butterfly Broadway
Pola swallowtail
over- victims of the Five Year Plans in the West is to underestimate A
Posed even makes a pass at a sunflower forgotten their 'favourile.
perhaps forgotten simplyled, elementary nilitary were the excellent statisticians
farewell
people can be pansuaded him a she blew and over there a hummingbird Negri has
answer. It is no longer possible no roble Soviet statistics have forced to cut their personal. hawk moth dips a swift, dis that
the bein published.
consumption in favour, of Indus- dainful longue into the gaudy kiss when he started off on that form, that question is dimçust so at the Soviet Union. Since 1923 e extent to which the Russian
last personal appearance tour.
fal and military strength. to simply unkempt blossoms.
Time to be getting back
The current practice is to give If we can pick mobilized might of the Sevels (3
all production figures as percent-
Out of a given amount of pro- the car now. our way among the empty beer sufficiem to defeat the West
The Foreign Affairs Com- ges of previous years produe- duction the proportion of the United States Jan. The real base of these disposal of the State is for higher cans and the general tatiiness...
-(London Express Service.)
even than it is in the democracies.
Paper picnic cups are strewn around a blue mosaic fountain.
(Valentino pot 500,000 dollars a year (2178,000) for starring
The OTHER PERSIAN
WHILE HIS COUNTRY GETS EMBROILED WITH BRITAIN MR. ENTEZAM TRIES TO SETTLE. ANOther conflICT OF THE WORLD SIDE OTHER
But he adds, "If this assembly. succeeds it will be the main thing in my life."
ON THE
NEW YORK LIGHT, dark-haired Nas- rollah Entezam, pre- sident of the United Nations General Assembly, is a man who confesses that he likes "to be alone."
But in the past few day and perhaps for weeks to come
Ertezam will
at
have little chance. In the whirlwind of conferences United Nations headquarters, be is charged with the task of bringing to an end the Korean conflict.
He is probably pro- the quietest
ident of the A sembly that UNO has yet produced.
He lacks the bil- llance of Belgium's. Paul Henri Spaak, the flamboyance of Australia's Her- bert Evatt
But he has an ability impressive
to keep the volu bility
of delegates to a minimum and to maintain . racking pace un- heard of in tho meeting places of
diplomats
face do- He has a narrow
a bright smile, large brown eyes and a hawk minated by nose that he ridicules as though it were of de Bergerac pro- portions.
"I will tell you everything about me in one sentence," he once said in an attempt to ward
"I am an Interview, off bachelor. I am 50, and I have n
very small nose."
Born in Teheran. Entezam was the third of five children in a fami- ly.
INTEZAM
Master of Ceremonies,
He hates ques-
about his Lions private life 05 much as he skies
away
from all
publicity. The only appointments he con
be relied upon to
break
A. with
men.
in an
10 wasume
the
that
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OF
On the other hand, it is possible
mitee of Senate has made an estimate of percentages are hidden the military effectives in the from Soulet experts themailves Davies and wir in the obscurities of time and rival armies,
to exaggerate Russian economic forces in 1951. The total for the the Iron Curtain.
power if one doce not appreciate North Atlentle Pact amoun's 10
Similarly, political truth is accurately how efficient they are Lour milion, four thundred and eighty-eight thousand men, That hard to find. Contacts between in sing their recourers, Russian for the Sovic: Bloc comes to the Soviet Union and the outside production is rising. But there four million, nine hundred and world are increasingly fewer and some reason to think that the farther between. Often it is
15 amount of effort and resources seventy-five-thousand-
ameux
10 gess their reliability, required to achieve that produc- The effectives of Spain and A pleture of life behind the tion is rising disproportionately Yugoslavia
to Curtain has to be pieced together tes are estimated emount to seven hundred thou- from a thousand any fragments
Ts is certainly so in agricul- 3and, so that the democracies rather as one placed together: can ecunt on those they might intelligence summaries of enemy ture. It may be true also.m cortain basle industries and in be said to have outpaced already activity during the wor.
mining in the elder areas where Soviet military strength in the
Russia is a totalitarian country, new machines have not been ruled by the dictatens of a installed. If this is rially so, West at least.
dell then the Soviet economy has a
grove weakness at i heart.
Numbers, however, as we have single party. This was a He is so busy at the United
OnCH found in Kara, can count for berabs cholec made about 1928 that someone
For the West to make such on observed that romance would mash or lite neceding to the when the New Economie Policy Nations have to be listed on the agenda excumstances of a given situa was brought to an end. It was
rexited that a mixed economy, assumption at celax would, of GJ Other factors, such tion. there to gain his consident surprise, tactical exill, better very like the one we have in course, be rastr and probably ataying Bullata today, was incompatible fete To underestimate Rursta superior "I can never answer when
or higher morals, can with the absoluto authority of would give her her chance,, On am asked why I am not mar equipment. #ried," he said, "But Jet's toy as power
exercise more influence than big the Communist Party, Stain the other hand, to averestinate her strength and so foster defeat- decided on the latter. a joke I am too young
ism and heutralism" would also Sufferer from insomnia, En-battaylors.
the military authors as
.From the choles have dowed give her her chance, estimate To tezam reads such Maurois, Zweig and Maugham strengths of Russia and the Weat not only the whole subsequent
Safety and prace lle dn etcking until he feels sufficiently exit is necessary to examine much pattern of Soviet development, hausted to sleep.
Asked if he were optimistic more than the nominal rolls of but also certain points of ter and acting on the truth
If we are minology and practice which are. Russia's economie, political and The suo- mältary situation about the future, he warned: to understand how powerful the strange to me.
sequent articles of this series 3711 "You should never be a peal-USSR may be today we shall
For instance, the Soviet Bixiget try to find that frath. as soon as you have.
consider not only her
TOMORROW: i mist. Because are you lose courage."
resources but the use she makes is quite a different thing from
Forced Labour of them that is, the condition of ours. That part of it which
10 cbviously relates
the men in uniform.
Frederick Cook her economy.
arc host AT 96, THE PREACHER SAYS:
newspaper-
Entezam received
degrees in politicar sclence and law at the Universities of
Teheran and Paris
and
entered
defcno?
About
GIVE ME THE 1951 SUNDAY
THE
"
THE other day, a side. the whiskered man of hear-
Ministry of Foreignly 97 preached for 20 Affairs at the age minutes at Wesley's Chapel
of 10.
By the time ho in London's City Road, was 30. he had A rare event?
Not for
served as secretary Methodism's John Scott Lidgett, to the Persian
"I preach frequently, he
Jacob Malik, Legations In Paris, Warsaw and announces in his strong, vibrant
Even Russia's · who is known for his.delaying London. tactics, in reported to have Entezam's great respect for ability to get things done.
the United Nations":
voice. "And I make sure that
In 1942 he was appointed to the congregation hear what I- the "Arabian Nights post of say."
ordered to Ban Francisco to at-
s
Twice
DR. SCOTT LIDCETT ...,
for tim a week Dr
lost his spectacles, 18 years ago ho never bothered to renew them. He was reported to have preserved his sight by 67 exercises, "Nonsense," he com ments. He has
written man
still reada theological books:
Religion has a strong hold people who do that."
with He will not" ngred evangelists who say that social Improvements have brought godlessness in their train. For worked
and studies every day, writes nearly 10 years he many letters,
among
the East Bad, poor at the Bermondsey Bettlement, of
is down to breakfast which he was the co-founder, in punctually at 7.30, having 1001. "I don't regret any of
that work for
Ho
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dressed unaidedì, eats "every
thing that is put before mo no fads"; says he feels dine and has every hope of living to be a hundred.
Bald.
But he thinks that we would.
the
all be a lot better if we took Grand Master of Ceremonics at He was born before Lesseps
time off from the cinems, radio, Palace of the He always speaks in an even the Imperini
bogan tho Suez Canal, before
TV and the other new develop- his Shah of Persia. "It was an
When he preaches he raises ments to be alone with our voice whether using
bath arms and thunders out, a. thoughts.
Hour
restlessness is tive Persian..a faultless French Tronical thing he commented Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital; "for a man who hated and before Diarnell became or alightly accented English. He later,
Scott text from the Old Testament the real enemy of religion," he Prime Minister, but he has not has complained more tann once ceremony to be master of ce retired yet. And he no Vic Laget drives de: London from in mighty alylo. But he is no says: "People are afraid to b that personal attacks are not montes In keeping with the dignity of Four years later he was forlan in his outlook,
The liberation of Sunday the house near Tunbridge Wells hell-fire evangalist, namun kalotte. They fave GMA
where he lives, with his only
Is this to godless and ability to contemplate. v. His grooming has a portec- tend the birth' of the Unifest,£rom - Victorian, gloom : hé ̧re”; daughter.' und her doctor hus, pagan?” “Wo areˆnòt" as pagan to looks forward to a PD.
He has remained gords on a great blessing!?! band, He still serves on reveral·
as we profess to be," says Dy revival of religion; "It would dety fears 2 jpal a child, the had committees.
Boolt Laldgett, "You have only be the best provention of Coma but he claims that replace identihod with it ever since, **
Often Dr Scott Lidgett has to walk to hear a huge, football crowd munimme he declared, " ments for his excellent wurd "I have no moord ambitions." Sunday books, and aven' Sun- robo are ordered en masse. "I hemys now. What has hape, daytoys."! Sunday, wes do not like to change a taller or paned has been too much-a-leerable in those days. That on two sticks because he has a at Wembley singing to realise for If dailym
reaction. The regime, rheumatic hip. But his blue that. What do they sing? Why
With a barber. I am too lazy to axe sady...I never fought to get brought
eyes are so good that when he they sing : 'Abide plain twice the same thing anything. That la females was too narrow.
flon that seems Indestructible, Nations
Evan Strol