FILM HERO WORSHIP
Body-snatching Plot
Ghouls, it is suspected, have planned (o steal the body of Rudolph Valentino for commercial reasons, says a Hollywood message. Five men were. recently discovered by a florist attempting to break into the crypt containing the embalmed body of the famous film star. Death has failed to free Rudolph Valentino from his admirers. Men and women have chipped pieces from the vault in which his body lies. A marble pedestal has been broken and its chips sold as “Valentino souvenirs.” Visitors to the cemetery have been restrained from crawling through the stained-glass window two feet from the crypt. A woman living in the heart of the United Stales recently divorced her husband because ho would not let her live near the Valentino mausoleum.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 6
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