HOUNDED BY REPORTERS AND SPIES

The Truth About Rudolph Valentino By NATACHA RAMBOVA HIS WIFE Couple in Retreat Hounded by Newspaper Reporters and Spies. Although Foxlair was remote and se cluded even here we were not sate from spies and the inevitable reporters. They were always under foot. They came disguised as hunters or as casual motorists who had just driven in to see the place but who left promptly when informed that no visitors were welcome Rudys producers we discovered were keeping close watch on all our move ments.

As I have already explained his pro ducers had no love for me. I was an Abominable nuisance who coached him on what to demand in the way of proper salary and a higher type of pictures which should give freer scope to his acting. Not pictures like The Young Rajah that was quite unworthy of nits ability since it stressed only his skill ir love making and his charms with women Rudy himself was getting fed up on bring only the sheik the great lover of the screen. He wanted to do something better.

The terms of the contraet he had made with Famous PlayersLasky gave him the right to O K his picture.