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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1930.
FINE ARAB STEEDS
I SEEM II. S.
Fritish Taxation May Force Sale
. of World's Best
London, Oct. IT The world's
most perfect collection of thorough
bred Arabian horses Is to be sold
by the Baroness Wentworth. and
he believes 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 &hich has become traditional
with bt family is the hope that
whoever buys the Arab stallions
and mares will keep the entire
stable together. And she tears that
nobody but an American millionaire
could do that.
"Since Its inception, the Crabbet
Park stud has cost at least J5.000.
4$I0, and the lowest price that even
would be considered now would be
well over $1,000,000. So only the
very wealthy need apply.
Thus will pass, probably to the
United States, the animate sym
bols of a romantic family legend.
Lady Wentworth's father was
Wilfrid Blunt, who In addition to
being a great land-owner was a
poet famous for his verse trans
lations of the Arab odes of pagan
times. Her mother was Lady
Anne Blunt. granddaughter of
Lord Bryon. Lady Wentworth
herself carries on the poetic tradi
tions of both sides of her family
by being on of the oldest of Eng
land' living sonnetteers.
Traveled in Arabia
Thi love stories in the life of
her Hlustrious ancestor, Byron,
are household tales. The romance
in the story of her parents Is not
B3 well known, and out of it grew
the Crabbet Park stable of fiery
Arab steeds.
Owing to ill health, the young
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
tia, 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
line horses seized both the young
f:ople. For generations the
lunts, the Byrons and the Love
laces 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
fji blue-blooded horseflesh that
(Bhers could not have bought for
grtunes.
m Carried on Hobby
When Blunt returned to Eng
land cured of his ailments, he de
voted as 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
when her "parents died, she Just
naturally carried on with the
Crabbet Park stud.
The ravages of war and disease
in ' Arabia 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
breed in every horse-loving coun
try of the world. King Feisal of
Irak and King Fuad of Egypt,
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 heart 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
high 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 so on.
That is why, if one of my own
countrymen 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.
K. Brown of New Hampshire and
W. K. Kellogg of California
founded their famous studs, they
bought some of their choice speci
mens from me.
"In their time, too, my horses
became famous in your country.
In 1921 there was run a great en
durance test. The horses were to
ccver 310 miles within five days
time. My gelding, Crabbet, won,
carrying a weight of 225 pounds.
Ir. 1919 my mare, Ramlah, had
scored the same kind of success in
the same kind of endurance race
carrying 217 pounds. In a similar
race run some years ago in Eng
land ny mare, Belka, came first.
A ye:..' 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
seme of my own family. There is
not one of them who does not
know me by sight and by voice.
For I have always taken a very
active part in their management
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."
NERVY WOMAN PILOT
Frankfort, N. T., Oct. 17 (UP)
While government inspectors exam
ined the airport at Talcottville
where her flying instructor, Richard
Yule, was killed in a crash, Mrs.
Lillian Wiltse of Frankfort success
fully passed tests for a private
pilot's license.
FORTUNE NEGLECTS
France Now May Honor George
Melies, First Producer
BY MINOTT SAUNDERS
Paris, Oct. 17 The world's first
moving picture studio may be turned
Into a museum, and the first pro
ducer of entertainment films is 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 Houdln 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.
Lumiere refused to sell, how
ever, so Melies went to work and
constructed his own camera. Two
months later, in February, 1896, he
produced his first moving picture
film. He called it. "A Card Party,"
and ft ran about 50 feet.
His First Film Studio
Melies built his studio in the back
yard of his home in Montreuil. He
was careful about expenses because
he didn't know how the thing was
going to take. He just built a little
stage in the open air and worked
hard all summer until September
came and cut down his light. He
could only operate from 10 a. m., to
S p. m.
His films were selling, however, so
he enlarged his studio, making It
about 60 feet long, 20 feet wide and
20 feet, high, with a roof of glass.
Melies was the scenario writer,
producer, director, scene 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 stage.
Was Real Pioneer
Most of the tricks of the movie
trade that seem so impressive today,
Melies started in his humble way.
He bedecked his actors in fantastic
uniforms and splashed his paint
brush around for lights and shades.
In 1897 business was going so good
that Melies again enlarged his
studio. 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 pioneer. Then he went still
another step, 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 Melies. 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
ruined financially and sold his pic
tures for anything that he could get.
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
property and his studio and in order I
to make a living he opened his little j
toy shop. Today he may be seen, I
bartering with children, a small, j
bald-headed, white-bearded, but
kindly old man. I
Only when he talks of the old
days does the genius of Melies show
itself. His eyes sparkle and with i
the mind of the producer he com- j
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. j
"All I 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 government
would bestow upon him the red rib
bon of the Legion of Honor. He says
he wants no financial reward. I
professional thin-man who exhib
ited at fairs slipped through the
bars of his cell here, jumped the
high wall and was gone.
Inquiry revealed that Pouchet haJ
recently gone on a hungerstrike.
apparently with the idea of getting
thinner and making his escape
easy.
MODEL NEW HATS
AFTERKING TUFS
London Designers Present "Ra
meses" Type lor Women
London, Oct. 17 (UP) King Tut
has been having a long inning with
fashion designers, but now London
dress experts are determined that
"Queen Tut" shall have her "raps."
Designers who have been delving
into history books for bizarre ideas
are resolved that "Queen Tut," the
little girl, shall be given a big hand
in a good old-fashioned, home-town
way.
To start this new era devoted to
King Tut's "Queen," the Rameses
hat has been created. It is said by
some to be simply divine, and by
others, mostly men to be hideous.
The Rameses hat has no brim. It
is covered with artificial hair of the
same color as the hair of its wear
er. . .
It is worn drawn down to the ears
so that it merges into the real
tresses of its owner. An old-lashion-"ed
"bun" is supposed to protrude
conspicuously from the back of it.
It is also worn with evening dress.
Two women appeared in Picca
dilly circus wearing Rameses hats
and a minor sensation was the re
sult of their first-night appearance.
Girls craned their necks over the
tops of busses to" see them, ,taxl.
cabdrivers exchanged remarks, some
of them rude, and business men saw
styles their wives may hereafter
wear. . '
ILLINOIS WOMAN OWNS
FIRST P. 0. IN TOWN
Portable Cabinet With Eight Lock
Boxes and Special Delivery Draw
er Used During Civil War
River Forest, III., Oct. 17 (UP)
Among the heirlooms possessed by
Miss Mary Murphy here is the vil
lage's first ost office. It is a portable
cabinet, about the size of an or
dinary cabinet, containing eight pri
vate drawers which was used for
special delivery mail. The bottom
of the cabinet contained two draw
ers which were used for magazines,
newspapers and articles.
The portable: posofflce waa used
during the years - of the Civil war,
and was housed in a box-car which
stood on the siding of the North
western railroad here. Hank Flowers,
Northwestern station agent durin?
the civil conflict, served as village
postmaster. No mail deliveries were
made during those years, and resi
dents were required to call at the
box car for their mall.
When the government erected a
post office building here. Miss Mur
phy's father was station agent for
the Northwestern railroad, and the
portable post office waa turned over
to him. Since then Illinois' unusual
and probably oldest post office has
been the possession of the Murphy
family.
FRIEDMAN'S PASSES WIN
New York, Oct 17 (UP) Benny
Friedman's New York Giant de
feated Ernie Never's Chicago Cardi
nals 25 to 12 in a professional foot
ball game at the Polo Grounds here
last night.
Friedman's long, accurate passea
featured the game.
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Circus Freak So Skinny
He Slips Through Bars
Lille, France, .Oct. 17 (UP) Po
lice are scouring the region of Lilli
for Marcel Pouchet an escaped con
vict sentenced for theft, who owe?
his getaway to his extreme thin
I ness.
During the absence of the guard'
at lunch, Pouchet who was once a
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