The Cordova daily times., 1922-05-19

sational marriage of Rudolph Val entino, the movie star to Miss Win fired Hudnut, daughter of a wealthy New York manufacturer of perfum- cry, is looming, which promises to bring the Hollywood colony of screen stars once more into the limel1ght of unfavorable publicity. The pair were married at lMexicali, last week, a day or so after the father of the bride had announced the engage ment in New York.
 It has now been learned that the Department of Justice is taking deep interest in the whole affair. Secret Service operatives are busily engaged here in making thorough investigation of the relations of Val entino with the young woman, and are examining all phases of the mar riage, and pre-marriage citations of the two.
 Valentino has been summoned to appear before the officers to be cross-examined on the matter. The federal officers are also arranging to interrorgate the bide, who left her husband immediately after the we'd ding ceremony, and is now report ed to be on her way to the paternal adobe in New York.
 !, it can be positively asserted that the investigation is seeking to prove that Valentino has violated the Mann White Slavery Act Considerable un- easiness is being felt in certain cir cles among the faster movie set be- cause it is believed that the of- ficers will find more than one skel- eton in somebody's secret closet be- fore they get through. In fact it may be that the movie, indusry is about to face the biggest sensation of the many which has been weaken ing the public confidence in the char acter of the screen stars during the past year. Unsavory spisodes have been coming thick and fact.
 The unfortunate notoriety about the Owen Moore-Pickford divorce had hardly died away, following the ex- pose of a saturnalian orgy of big producers outside of Boston, when the eading public was shocked by the death of Virginia Rappe in the St Francis Hotel at San Francisco, while partying with Roscoe Fatty" Arbuckle Then came the still un- explained murder of William Desmond Taylor, one of the best known of the directors, and whispers of intrigues and love affairs with Mable Nor mand and Mary Miles Minter. Now comes the Valentino marriage with young New York girl, and the Fed eral Government hot on the trail of the affair, almost before the pair had shaken the rice out of their clothes, with possible indictment for white slavery facing the actor.
 It may be authoritatively stated that the officials looking into Val entino's marriage are also investi- gating the marriages of two other prominent movie stars, both of whom welded second time after obtain, ing interlocutory decrees of divorce. The two stars in question are Frank Mayo and Henry B. Walthall. Mayo was but recently married in Tia Ju- ana, shortly after obtaining an inter- 1ocutory decree of divorce, fom Dag mar Godowsky, the famous pianist
 LOS ANGELES, May 19.-District Attorney Thomas Lee Woolwine, ac- companied by his deputy Tom McClel- land, left here last night bound for the town of Mexicali in Lower Cali fornia. The officials are on a trip of investigation connected with the reported marriage of Rudolf Valentino, the movie actor, with Miss Winifred Hudnut. Before leaving here the dis trlct attorney announced that if it was found that the pair had actually been married in Mexico, criminal pro- ceedings would be commenced against Valentino charging him with bigamy under the laws of the State of Cali fornia. Valentino has but recently heen divorced. Under the California laws, an interlocutory decree is first issued, and an absolute decree can