Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-01-31
MISS WILLS
SUBMITS TO
CAMERA MEN
Thoroughly Det
Publicity But Final
ly Poses With Her
Fiance
By III. r. REYNOLDS

IOhtE l6NC. Ia 1iACtA1d anu
throughout Europe, where she is
known for her feats On the tennis
courts, that sobriquet has been con-
nected with the name Of Helen Wills.
She has been anable TO escape the
publicity which sAe has datezted ever
since she first achieved distinction
as a wielder Of the racquet. Because
she has attempted to escape it, sell
dom posing for photos, and showing
little motion when she has lone so,
they have called her-"Little Poker
Face
: ! And since her recently announced
engagement TO Frederick Schander
Moody, Jr., of San Francisco, il mas
been more difficult than ever for
her to avoid cameramen and report
ers.
Besieged for several days by pho
tographers and movie men desiring
to obtain shots Of her with her
fiance. Helen Wills finally accepted
defeat and agreed to pose with the
young man.
Reporters and photographers have
thoroughly hated the assignment,
Helen Wills at the Tennis Club"
for the simple reason tEat the court
star had so little patience for the
publicity they sought to give her that
II was hard to bring back to the edi
toriGl rooms anything that would
satisfy or please the 'big boss" in
the way of either story or pictures.
Only by the greatest persistence
have cameramen succeeded in get
ting her TO pause long enough Cor a
photograph.
After fruitless efforts to obtain
pictures OF Miss Wills and her fiance
after their engagement had been an
nounced, the cameramen got the
same assignment two days later.
Helen Wills and Frederick Schan-
der Moody, Jr., will pose at the Cali
fDrnia Tennis club between ten-thirty
and eleven" and again they congre-
gated with a great battery of equip
ment for the purpose Of obtaining
the much sought picture. At about
eleven ~forty-five Miss Wills arrived
alone and went directly into the
clubhouse without even glancing to-
ward the expectant photographers.
A few minutes later she ~reappeared
and cheerfully announced that she
was willing to pose with her fiance
and hat she was now going 10 meet
him at his home.
Jumping into her roadster she was
off almost before the group had
time to take a breath, let alone gath
er up their equipment and start aft
err her. Through the streets of San
Francisco they went It Z speed far
beyond the legal limit-the shiny
roadster in the lead, and the cars
% the photographers in pursuit, two
or three abreast, sore equipped with
sirens and making full use OF them.
Drawing up in front OF a fine old
San Francisco mansion Miss Wills
was met by young Moody and they
drove on TO a small park in the vi
entity.
Here the photographers we're re-
warded FOR their zeal. They swarm
led around the young couple, getting
. each others way. and trying to
Atain as many different positions
kpossible before the words. That
be all" were spoken by their
pets.
h curiosity has beer expressed
who Frederick Schander Moody,
what he Is, and where he
rom. He IS a young San Fran
broker descended from a FAM
ELL represented in American
Ery. His father was at one time
Tenant governor OF the Society
Colonial Wars, and his mother
Formerly held the presidency Of the
San Francisco chapter of Colonial
Danes. His grandparents on both
sides came to California in the early
days, one couple in 1Si9 and the
other in 1850.
Geneslogists. tracing the family
back to TIE French HuEenots, find
that q direct ancestor. kohlehomme
Gaspard Colet de Rapalie. fled from
France to Holland in 1913 because
Of religious persecution; and an
other, ,Joris Jansen de Rapalie,
brought his wife 10 American in 1923.
Joris was n representative in the
first public assembly in Manhattan
and later was a magistrate Of Brook
syn. Judge Lucas Ryerson, a notable
previous 4 the Revolution. is de-
scribcd as "a man of giant stature
and great strength" Col. Theunis
Day and Lieutenant Simon Van Ness,
both Revolutionary officers. are also
among young Moody's ancestors.
Doubtless Frederick Schanler
Moody, Jr., has inherited many good
characteristics as well ms physical
well-being from this long line az
soldiers, statesmen and judges, all
MAKERS of history, and bearing such
names as Ryerson, Van Ness, Wander
Beck, De Bow, Handlin, Schander,
and finally Moody.