Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-30
URING a brief and hasty inter-
Jude to personal appearances
in Baltimore, where she was
being feted with a pre-release
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showing of "Evangeline," her
latest picture, Dolores Del Rio visited
Washington Thursday morning Tor a
presentation to President Hoover.
Though the adviceS of her intended
visit had been made public, there were
comparatively few fans who called to
see her. True, there were camera men
in abundance, and every one who saw
the slim, olive skinned young woman
gave her an interested attention,
whether knowing who she was or not.
Her attractiveneSs is sufnciently COM
pelling, aside from her name and repu-
tation. to draw the eye and hold 1t.
Upon those who awaited flrst &C
tual glimpse of the young star the
realization Of her presence produced an
interesting effect. A considerable
glamour surrounds her career, from the
time she came from Mexico City, I'M
known and unsung to cinema fame, to
the making of the last Of her romantic
pictures, the story OF Longfellows
Acadian heroine, Evangeline. The illu-
sion which rests about her name as
the result of her movie appearances
had conjured, in one mind at least, a
definite concept of a demure young
woman who had usually affected the
peasant type in her films and merited
good measure of respect for her dra-
matte ability in handling these hum
BILE roles.
One could not reasonably have ex-
pected Miss Del Rio to appear for the
presidential interview In the garb OF
Ramona or Evangeline, yet that was
j the composite picture associated IN
ones mind with her name. When there
, finally did appear modern young
woman in becoming white dress, who
acknowledged her various tntroductions
in cordial and friendly style, one had
to set about re-creating his image in
a new setting, to rendering himself sub
ject to new impressions. This was not
Ramona, after all, or Charmaine: this
was Senorita Del Rio, whom you might
any Latin American capital when the
marimba was playing and the limpid
voice of Spanish was in the air.
] It was not Spanish, of course, but
English, that Miss Del Rio spoke. She
spoke it with an accent quite pleasing
and with just the least hesitancy.
Some words and expressions she en-
phasized in the Spanish rather than
! in the American manner. What hesi-
fancy there might have been was In
no wise due to lack Of poise; 1t was
merely a remnant unfamfiarity with
| the language.
Her Baltimore appearances had
frightened her a little at FIRST, Miss
Del Rio confessed. Acting before mil
lions on the screen was obviously quite
different matter from speaking to a
| real audience from the stage. But it
was good for her. the star admitted
| Ilaively, because it increased her as
surance. If her assurance at the mo-
! ment appeared at low ebb. she plead
ed, 1t was at least partly because she
had been out dancing the evening be-
fore and felt fatigued.
Miss Del Rio and Herbert Rawlinson,
master of ceremonies at the Palace
Theater, were swapping hometown
notes not two minutes after they had
! greeted one another-home town being
! Hollywood. 1t was amusingly conven-
tional back home" conversation. ."Oh,
J yes; she's married now-she met this
nice boy from New York and married
hirn-yes, Elizabeth's well, and her chill
dren are darlings." And so on.
"Eyangeline" Miss Del Rio considered