RUDOLPH VALENTINO

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1926, Page 2

RUDOLPH VALENTINO

CROWDS VIEW THE BODY. (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.] NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Because of disorder and rioting during two days, the public will be barred after midnight on Wednesday from viewing the body of the late Rudolph -ale Wino. This was the announcement or Tlr iGeorge L liman, Valentino’s manager, when lie arrived at the undertaker’s to find a mob of twenty thousand struggling with the police in an effort to get into the' building.

“This has gone far enough,” he said. “Lack of reverence shown by the crowds, disorder, and rioting have forced me to a decision. At midnight the doors will he closed to the public, and the body will he placed in the vault of the funeral church until Monday, and will be viewed only by the deceased’s friends and associates.”

Air Gilman said that- there would Ik? no great funeral cortege on Monday. There would only he the hearse hearing the casket, and one or two automobiles to carry intimate friends. In the fear of a , possible outbreak between Fascists and anti-Faseists, the police have been augmented at Valentino’s undertaker’s place, where there is a Fascist guard of honour stationed, in the face of anti-Fnscist protests. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. There were no disorders to-day when nearly two hundred policemen were engaged in hurrying a seemingly endless line of mourners through the room wherein Rudolph Valentino’s body reposes. at the rate of eighty per minute. The remains will lie in‘state till Sunday night. Tentative plans have been made for the funeral on Monday morning. There will lie a procession to St. Malac-lii’s Church, where Requiem High Mass will he celebrated.