The Tyrone Power Pages: Newspaper Articles-The 1940's

POWER TAKES ON NEW JOB
Has had Many Roles But This Is Novel
August 24, 1940
Robin Coons

HOLLYWOOD. Tyrone Power, wearing black tights, black boots, black hat and black mustache, is doing a job he never did before.

He has played Jesse James and DeLesser and a pioneer with Brigham Young, and except for Don Ameche he looks more the way historical characters are supposed to look than any other young man in the movies.

But now he's playing Doug Fairbanks, Sr. Rather, he's playing against the fan memory of Doug as he was in one of his jumpingest, jitteriest silent epics, The Mark of Zorro.

They're calling it The Californian now, and they've streamlined the story, but that's what it is—good old Zorro the Robin Hood of early Los Angeles, when the fifth city was a pueblo and scarcely a dot in the mind of Mother Spain.

Ty hasn't reached the fence leaping stage yet. "That's still to come," he says. "Right now I'm bothered by the fencing."

He's taking lessons from Fred Cavens, the duel master of the studios, who taught Doug, Sr. how to whip an army with a single sword. Ty is pitted against Basil Rathbone in the fencing sequence. Rathbone is a picture veteran of the foils and an amateur fencer I his spare time.

Rouben Mamoulian is directing The Californian. The Mark of Zorro was the first movie he saw when he went to London some twenty years ago from his native Tiflis. He saw the movie again the other day. It may be cruel by today's standards, he reports, but the "psychological thrill" still is there, and the picture doesn't suffer. The new version, he says, will have it's athletic, acrobatic business toned down. "After all, he explains, "the other was made to Fairbanks' order, and this is going to be a logical story."

They'll be another difference, according to Ernesto A. Romero, technical adviser. Romero, for 12 years attached to the Mexican consulate here, knows how movies with Latin-American locales should be made.

"Once Hollywood paid no attention to such details as costuming, furnishings, accents when it made pictures of South or Central America." "Latin Americans laughed at or resented Hollywood's pictures of themselves.

"Today every care is taken to assure authentic. This setting the home and patio of the Alcalde of old Los Angeles, is a beautiful example. We take some dramatic license, but we take none with details of wardrobe settings and speech. Every Spanish word spoken by the players, to give flavor to their speeches in English will be pronounced correctly, and Latin-Americans will appreciate it."

The leading lady is Linda Darnell. The day I was on the set she walked in, informally slacked and bloused. Mamoulian took one look at her hands, and delivered a paternal lecture.

"Linda," he said, "in a few days we shoot you at prayer. Your hands must be clasped, and you must look as beautiful as a painting by an old master. But the audience will look at your hands and it will say, "'Ah, Linda has been biting her nails again!'"

"I'll use false nails," Linda promised Mamoulian.

TY POWER, THE TOREADOR
Fights Bulls, But Doesn't Make Them Mad
Frederick C. Othman
January 31, 1941

Hollywood, Jan. 31. (UP). Darryl F. Zanuck's bloodless bullfighters have returned from Mexico City, without having even tweaked a bull's tail.

The company was headed by Toreador Tyrone Power, director Rouben Mamoulian, and Evansville's (Ind.) greatest bullfighter. Bud Boetticher, erstwhile assistant casting director for Hal Roach. Their bullfighting was in the interest of a motion picture, Blood and Sand and their problem was to make a realistic-looking bullfight without getting in trouble with the cruelty-to-animals people.

Two bullfights will show in the picture. In the first, there is a fadeout before Toreador Power kills the bull. In the second, the bull kills the toreador. That's okay.

Nobody seems to mind if a man gets killed. In Power's last picture he ran a sword through the vitals of villain Rathbone. Everybody cheered. If Power killed a bull we'd hate to think of the consequences.

"We don't even make a bull mad," reported Boetticher, who functioned as technical director. "In on close-up we show the bandilleras sticking in the bull's shoulder. In real bullfights you've go to prick the bull to make him angry enough to fight. So we show the bandilleras in the bull. Only they aren't. They're sticking in a piece of hide we've draped across the bull's shoulders."

The fight sequences, however, are authentic. Fox made a deal with the promoters to photograph a real bullfight one Sunday afternoon. There were 35,000 cheering spectators, who never knew they were functioning as movie extras.

"Six bulls were killed that afternoon," Boetticher said. "We've had nothing to do with that. They'd have been killed whether we were there, or not. So we photographed the fight from all angles."

These fight scenes, as performed by the bull and one Armillias, knows as the world's greatest bullfighter, then were spliced into the close-ups later photographed by Mammoulian.

He rented the bullring for a week, plus half a dozen bulls, which he returned as good as new after taking their pictures. Toreador Power did a great deal of the cape work under Boetticher's tutelage, but the studio wouldn't let him get in there with a bull."

Toreador Boetticher has been fighting bulls on his days off from the studio for years. Seems he used to play football at Ohio State. Then he took a vacation in Mexico, became enamoured of bullfighting and has been playing at it ever since.

TYRONE POWER A THEATRE STAR BACK IN 1833

Present Film Actor Is Great-Grandson of Irish Player of Lamp-Lit Broadway

The shade of a merry and rotund 19th century Irishman may well have haunted the rotunda of the Roxy Theater last Friday night during the premiere of A Yank in the R.A.F. His name among the living would have been Tyrone Power (1797 – 1841) and his object in being there would have been to check on the hullabaloo surrounding a motion picture in which his great-grandson and namesake, Tyrone Power 3rd was starred.

For it is exactly 100 years since Tyrone the 1st died in a shop disaster, leaving to this world an acting heritage and a name that has never since been absent from Broadway.

Consider a Broadway premiere of 1833. The celebrated Irish actor Tyrone Power, is making his first American appearance in the newly rebuilt Park Theater as Sir Patrick Plenipo in "The Irish Ambassador."

The name of the player, the name of the theater and the imposing structure of the city hall, which the theater overlooked, would be familiar to present-day New Yorkers, and little else. An actual canal ran the course of what is now Canal Street. Power, making his way unescorted from an inn to the theater, had to pick his way through mud.

A far cry indeed room this playhouse and premiere to the fanfare of the Roxy opening of A Yank in the R.A.F. with Klieg lights that outshone the bright lights of Broadway. Modern ballyhoo, pooping camera bulbs, bands loudspeakers and a parade of celebrities were lacking at the first Tyrone Power premiere. The Park Theater, for all of its new-fangled lamps, scrolls and pillars, was a dingy barn as compared to a modern motion picture house. But, as the ghost of a jolly Irishman may have observed, the top billing was the same, as it had been for 100 years.

In 1848 one finds the son of the first Tyrone, Maurice Power, striving, although with indifferent success, to continue the tradition. Then a grandson, Tyrone Power the 2nd, father of the present-day screen actor, surpassed the eminence of the earlier one, sharing stage honors with such luminaries as John Drew, Richard Mansfield, Maurice Barrymore, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Beebohm Tree and Sir Henry Irving.

Through Tyrone Power the 2nd, too, the link was established with motion pictures. At the very end of his career the screen claimed him, and he was playing character parts in Hollywood. He was never one to discount the march of events. Indeed he foresaw them. When the present Tyrone was a small boy, his father made this prophetic remark about him in an interview:

"Mrs. Power and I have a little son and naturally all our hopes are centered on him. And when he grows in years, the art of motion pictures will do much for his education."

TYRONE ENDS 2ND FILM HITCH
Completes 5th Year of Current Stay in Films as Studio's Top Earner

HOLLYWOOD. Oct. 8. Tyrone Power has just finished his second hitch in Hollywood. It was somewhat more successful than the first.

This month, Power completed the fifth year of his current stay in the movie town. He is 20th Century Fox's most valuable property.

The studio says it has spent $28,000,000 on the 20 pictures in which he has been starred. None of them ever lost money and two, Jesse James and Alexander's Ragtime Band were ranked next to Gone With the Wind as the big money makers of the last five years.

"After my father died in Hollywood in 1931 while playing in The Miracle Man, Power recalled, "I tried to find a job in the movies. I wanted to act, of course, but I would have taken almost anything, just to get a start."

"But I couldn't even get a job as an office boy. My father's friends encouraged me about acting but they didn't feel that I was good enough then for the movies. They told me to get more experience.

"I never expected to come back here when I climbed on a train in 1933 and headed for my how town, Cincinnati."

He did come back, though, after working with radio troupes, Summer stock companies and on Broadway. He starred in his first picture, Lloyds of London, and has been on top ever since.

The picture he is doing now, Son of Fury, is in the same era.

"When I found out I was going to do it, I asked the wardrobe boys to get the Lloyds of London costumes out of the month ball and I'm wearing two of them in this picture."

The studio has billed Son of Fury as a $2,000,000 production and said A Yank in the R.A.F. which Power had just competed, cost more than that. But they have plenty of precedent for believing it will all come back, with interest.

NEW YORK CALVALCADE: DIARY OF A GOTHAM CHRONICLER
Louis Sobol
April 11, 1942

"....Tyrone Power told us why he had been so eager to join the Navy [sic]—confessing that he felt every time he appeared in a picture or on the stage or even walked the streets, some soldier or sailor would point and say, "Why isn't he in uniform?...." "So I asked myself that," he said, "and there was no answer. Why shouldn't I be in uniform?".....

NIVEN'S WIFE DIES FROM FALL AT PARTY
HOLLYWOOD. May 21. Primula Niven, British war bride of David Niven, actor, who plunged down Tyrone Power's cellar stairs in a game of blackout hide and seek Sunday night, died today of head injuries suffered in the fall.

The game was "sardine," friend reported tonight, in which the lights are turned out while everybody squeezes together in a corner or closet. Mrs. Niven was "it."

"She was groping around for a closet door in the dark," said Lilli Palmer, wife of Rex Harrison and one of the guests. "Apparently, she found the door leading to the basement and crashed down the steps."

She was not believed in serious condition after examination at the hospital. But she suffered a relapse last night and died at 1:30 A.M. Mr. Niven, who had stayed at her bedside, collapsed and was put under a doctor's care.

Other guests at Power's home were Gene Tierney and her husband, Oleg Cassini; Richard Greene and his wife, Ceasar Romero, and Major Arthur Little of the Marine Corps.

TYRONE POWER SEES SMUTS Film Star, In Pretoria, Guest of Premier at Farm
New York Times, Feb. 27, 1947

South Africa, Sept. 26. Tyrone Power, film star, now on a vacation in South Africa, visited Pretoria today and was received by Premier Jan Christian Smuts in his office. Crowds of women assembled at many points to cheer him. Mrs. Smuts broke her traditional seclusion to serve tea to the American visitor at the family farm, at Irene, ten miles from the capital.

While English language newspapers deplore the fact that the film star should be receiving almost as much attention as the British royal family did on its visit earlier in the year, Die Burger of Capetown writes, "Everything and everybody that come across the water is butter on the Prime Minister's bread. Now it has even gone as far as a Hollywood hero."

AVIATOR HONORED IN SHIP LAUNCHING
Destroyer Cunningham Floated at Staten Island Yard With Widow Christening It
[Date Unknown]

The United States destroyer Cunningham, named in honor of the late Lieut. Col. Alfred Austell Cunningham, "father of Marine Corps aviation," was launched last night at the Bethlehem Steel and Shipbuilding Company's yard at Mariners Harbor, S.I., in the presence of high naval officers, seventy-five invited guests and 500 shipyard workers. As the 2, 200 ton warship slid down the ways into the Kill van Kull, the sponsor, Mrs. Alfred Cunningham of 300 South St. Asaph St., Alexandria, VA, widow of the colonel, broke a bottle of champagne over its bow.

Rear Admiral Charles E. Dunn, supervisor of shipbuilding. Third Naval District, represent the Navy, and the invited guests included Col. Christian F. Schilt, executive officer of the 9th Marine Air Wing, at Cherry Point, N.C.; Col. Richard C. Mangru, who led the dive-bombing squadron which sand three Japanese destroyers when the Marines invaded Guadalcanal; Lieut. Tyrone Power, former film star, and Representative Melvin J. Maas of Minnesota, a member of Colonel Cunningham"s first Marine force in the first World War.

Colonel Cunningham was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marines in 1909 and made his first solo flight in 1912 after only two hours and forty minutes of actual fight training. He organized, trained and commanded the first Marine Aircraft Group, which operated in France against Germany in the first World War. He was the recipient of the Navy Cross, among other decorations. He retired in 1935 after more than a quarter of a century with the Marines and died May 27, 1939, at the age of 57.

Lieutenant Power, who flew up form cherry Point with Colonel Schilt and Colonel Mangrum was surrounded by girl office workers when he visited the Bethlehem yard in the afternoon.

TYRONE POWER DIVORCED; TO PAY $50,000 YEARLY
January 26, 1948
HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 26 (UP)—French actress Annabella today gave up her husband, Tyrone Power, who had so little liking for being a married man that he agree to pay a maximum of $87,500 annually for being single. They were married on Jan. 23, 1939.

Annabella, whose full name is Suzanne Georgette Charpentier Murat Power was on the stand in superior Judge Thurmond Clark's court for less than five minutes.

She calmly testified that Mr. Power left her in August, 1946 and made a long trip to South America, Africa and Europe against her wishes. The actress elaborated his "cruelties," saying he embarrassed her by leaving the room when they were entertaining guests and failing to return.

Under the terms of a proper settlement reached out of court she received their Brentwood home, three automobiles and bank accounts in Los Angeles, New York and Paris. Mr. Power agreed to pay $219 a month's support for the daughter. For herself, Annabella gets $50,000 a year, plus 17 percent of Mr. Power's income in excess of $310,000. The maximum she may receive in any ear is $87,500.

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 27 (AP) Tyrone Power was divorced today from Annabella, eight hours after he married Linda Christian in Rome.

Soon after Superior Court opened, his attorneys filed a petition asking hat the interlocutory decree obtained by Annabella a year ago yesterday be made final.

Superior Judge Thomas Cunningham signed it after receiving cabled assurance from Power, was required by law, that he had not reconciled or lived with Annabella during the year.

In Rome, Power said that if the marriage is not recognized here, he and Linda will go through another ceremony n California when they return.

DIRECTOR'S MEMO
HENRY KING LISTS SOME AMUSING INCIDENTS IN MAKING 'PRINCE OF FOXES' IN ITALY
Henry King [Director of 'Prince of Foxes']
New York Times, December 4 , 1949

Twenty-five years ago, when I first made pictures in Italy, Vesuvius erupted on schedule for a scene in Romola and Prince Umberto consented to play an extra in The White Sister

Last year, when I returned to the Mediterranean country to direct Prince of Foxes, I found things had changed. Italy's beauty and ancient monuments were as I remembered them, but production problems had noticeable accelerated in the quarter-century interim.

Our first problem was to recondition Cinecitta Studios, Mussolini's film capital on Rome's outskirts, which we wanted to us as our base of operations. We found bombs had left jagged holes in stage walls, and the place, once modern and well equipped, was now deserted save for a few hundred DP's, living in squalor on the huge, comfortless states.

While boots McCracken, our production manager, whose untimely death later saddened us, worried about getting the studio back into shape and struggled with other problems, I crisscrossed Italy by lane to select walled cities, palazzos and other types of ancient scenery we needed to background the action. Rome, Florence, Venice, Sienna, San Marino, San Gimignano, each had something important to offer.

Native Logic

I don't need a numerologist to tell me that "400" is an unlucky number. We had planned to hire 400 horsemen for our big battle scene in the picture. Jack Stubbs, handling props, looked up an Italian opera-outfitting house for our weapons

"I shall bring you every spear and helmet in Italy," said the opera outfitter. He produced enough armor and medieval hardware to rig out at lest eight warriors.

"But I need 400 lances alone for the horseman!" shouted Stubbs.

"Why 400?" asked the outfitter. "Why not reduce the number and have them fight on for?"

Eventually, we had all our spears, swords, crossbows, catapults (equipped with railway car springs) and 400 tin helmets, lined with sponge rubber. These helmets were beautifully embossed works of art. Only one thing was wrong: all were size 6.

The case of the 400 war steed I would prefer to forget. After some red tape with a few individuals, we found a man who claimed he could corner the Italian horse market for us. He returned with two batches. The first was a bizarre collection of battered working nags, veterans of the horse-taxi, plow, junkwagon and riding academy, one of which a giant white with a hanging head was alleged to e Mussolini's horse, General.

The second batch of horses looked like a walking spareribs factory: they were borrowed from the Sienna Medical College, where they had been used throughout the war for the manufacture of antitoxins. Our work was cut out for us.

Misunderstanding

Although one of the interpreters we used during the filming insisted the correct word for "gun" was "boom-boom," we ran into language difficulties only once.

When you see the picture, take a good look at what the villagers are throwing in the air in that gay festival scene near the end, which we shot at San Gimignano. I sent a messenger out for 100 pounds of confetti in Italian stands for Jordan almonds, and we didn't have enough time on or shooting schedule to change matters.

The City Fathers in Venice, where we filmed scenes of Tyrone Power and Wanda Hendrix, were delightfully cooperative, as were all other power-driven craft away from our cameras. In other locales along canals, the city even temporarily removed all phone and light poles, wires and anything else that clashed with the Renaissance atmosphere.

One irate Venetian burgher protested over a narrow byway being roped off for our unit, and demanded the right of way.

"But they are making a picture," the policeman on duty explained.

"That's all right," the citizen shot back. "Raphael made many but they didn't block his ways."

THOUSAND OF BOBBY SOXERS RUSH POLICE AT TYRONE POWER WEDDING
Nuptial Vows of Star and Linda Christian in Rome Church Muffled by Din; Pope gives His blessing to Couple
New York Times, January 28, 1949

Rome, Jan. 27. Tyrone Power, screen actor, and Linda Christian film starlet, were married this morning in what all observers agree was the most magnificent wedding seen in Rome during recent years. Though Power had insisted that the ceremony was not to be "turned into a three-ring circus," a severe strain was put on arrangements by the exuberance of photographers and admirers of the film stars.

Mounted carabinieri in full-dress uniforms had been out since early morning to handle the crowds and motorized police were obliged to charge battalions of women bent on gaining admission to the church of Santa Francesca. Romana at all costs. The crowds were so thick that United States Ambassador and Mrs. James clement Dunn had to fight their way into the church and they arrived twenty minutes late.

After the wedding, the couple were received by Pope Pius XII in the Vatican and received his blessing. The Pontiff presented a rosary to the bridge and a silver medal with his effigy to the bridegroom.

Honeymoon in Austria

Afterward the couple left by motor via Florence and Switzerland for a honeymoon at Kitzbuehl, Austria, which is famed for its skiing.

The ceremony was performed by Msgr. William Hemmick, Pittsburgh-born prelate who is a canon of St. Peter’s. In the absence of her father, who is in Haifa, the bride was given in marriage by Leone Migliovitch, 72 year old father of two girls with whom the actress went to school in Florence. Her bridesmaids were her 18 year old sister, Ariadna, and Luisa Costero, a former schoolmate, Power's best man was George Orenstein of Pickfair, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Witnesses at the wedding included Countess Dorothy DiRasso, the former Dorothy Taylor; Brazilian Count Rudy Crespo and Comdr. Victor L. Schrager, assistant air attaché at the American Embassy.

The bride wore a white satin gown and a long train decorated with lace and border for pearls. On her head she had a small bonnet similarly made of white satin and decorated with lace and pearls. She carried white orchids.

Din Muffles Vows

ROME, Jan. 27 (AP) Tyrone Power an Linda Christian were wed in a double ring ceremony today while thousands of screaming Italian bobby soxers surged riotously across police lines outside the church of Santa Francesaa Romana.

So great was the din that the words of the marriage ceremony scarcely could be heard in the fifth row of the church. Even the guests were none too orderly. In the crush outside the church, several women fainted and a man's finger was broken. A number of other persons were bruised. There were reports that Vatican prelates were incensed at the atmosphere.

The marriage of the film stars gave hundreds of Rome's policemen their busiest day since the rioting that followed an attempt to assassinate Communist leader Paimiro Togliatti last July.

Power, a 34 year old veteran of scores of movie mob scenes, was clam throughout the pushing and mangling that attended his arrival and departure at the church.

When Miss Christian arrived, the crowd broke through the police lines and swarmed about her car shouting "Linda! Linda!" At the departure of the couple the police lines again collapsed. Power was jostled. Later, when he stepped out of his car, he found a woman's fur cuffed coat sleeve on the running board.

Bride's Gift From Pope

At their audience with the Pope, the bride received from the Holy Father a booklet of "Instructions About the Good Christian Family." Later the bridal couple were entertained by Ambassador and Mrs. Dunn at a luncheon.

After the wedding Power announced that his bride will give up her screen career. It was Miss Christian's first marriage. The vivacious starlet, whose real name is Blanca Rosa Welter, formerly was under contract to MGM, but obtained her release last January so she "could be with Ty more." On the eve of the wedding she told reporters she plans to start having babies right away; "two at first and later three more."

A Vatican source said the Church had sanctioned the wedding because Power's first marriage was "not contracted religiously and because Catholic rites were not performed." The screen actor's former wife is Annabella, French film star.

ADVENTURE FOR TYRONE AND LINDA
The Lure of Far Horizons forms a binding tie Between the Hollywood Star and His Bride
John MacLeod [date uknown]

The "wise guys" said the romance wouldn't last.

"Ty Power and Linda Christian?" they scoffed along Hollywood Boulevard, "they'll never be married. Ty likes freedom too much."

So Tyrone Power and Linda were married in a brilliant ceremony Jan. 27, 1949, in the Santa Francesca Romana church in Rome. Once more the "wise guys" shook their heads.

"O.K." they said. "So they're married. But believe me, they'll be separated before the winter's over."

That's what the "wise guys" thought-the ones who know everything there is to know about Hollywood and its people.

"I give them three months-no more, no less," one said.

Perhaps, however, there were things they didn't know about Ty-and about Linda.

They said that the war had left a restless spirit of adventure in Ty's heart-and in that they could be right. He enlisted as a private in the Marine Corps Aug. 24, 1942, without fanfare, without benefit of press agents. He served his boot camp training in San Diego-and it wasn't always easy.

At least once he had to fight to prove that he wasn't a "Hollywood sissy." That encounter behind the barracks left his opponent with a couple of black eyes, and won Ty the respect of his outfit.

He we to Officers' Training School, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant June 4, 1943. Ty served as a pilot in the Marine Air Transfer. There was shooting going on around those bases-and bringing in supplies and carrying out wounded wasn't a snap job.

Bullets weren't the only danger. Once over Kwaljalein, Ty was checking a new Marine Corps pilot in a twin-engined ship. Over the island they went into a power dive-and the new pilot accidentally shut off both engines.

The young pilot lost his head, and the result could have been disastrous. Instead of bawling him out, Ty said calmly:

"It's quiet up here, isn't it?"

While the youngster was wondering whether to launch or not, Ty regained control of the plane. He was proving the truth of a slogan he had learned out there:

"There are brave pilots, and there are bold pilots. But there aren't any bold, brave ones. They’re all dead."

Recklessness, in other words, had no part in flying. Risks had to be taken by brave men-but they had to be calculated risks.

He was discharged, a First Lieutenant, in November 1945. But the call of far places-was in his blood. In 1946 he flew a twin-engined plane around South America, covering 23,500 miles. His studio. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. was disturbed.

"You're too valuable a man for us to have you flying around the world," they told him. "You'll have to stop."

But he couldn't stop. In 1947 he flew a DC-3 across the South Atlantic, to Africa and Europe, and home by way of Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and Canada. In two years he flew more than 100,000 miles.

The sort of thing the studio feared almost happened on the South Atlantic flight. An auxiliary gasoline tank sprang a leak, and shot raw gasoline into the cabin. The slightest spark might have turned the plane into a funeral pyre.

Ty remained calm. He told his companions to take of their shoes, to avoid the danger of a shoe nail striking a spark. He switched the engines to the leaking tank, drained it-and in two hours had his ship out of danger.

In June, 1948, he flew to Portugal and motored to Rome to make the picture, "Prince of Foxes," and last summer he was in Africa, Scotland and England, working on "The Black Rose."

That was the record the "wise guys" pointed to. They recalled, too, that Ty planned to fly, as soon as he could, to China, Siam, Burma, Java and Australia.

Meanwhile, what of Linda?

She was born in Tampico, Mexico, daughter of a traveling petroleum engineer. she had traveled throughout the world with her father-going to school in Haifa, Italy and Johannesburg, well-French, Italian Spanish, German, Dutch and English, Linda, too, knew the lure of the far places of the world. She could guide Ty about Rome; she could tell him tales of places he had never seen. She could understand his wanderlust.

He talked of India-of China, Siam, Burma, Java and Australia. Ty wanted to fly there in his own plane, as he had to Africa and Europe.

He and Linda met while he was making "Captain from Castile," and she was appearing in a Tarzan picture, but they didn't become serious until they met in Rome.

Ty was working on Prince of Foxes and Linda was in Rome with her sister. They were married as soon as the divorce of Ty and Annabella, whom he had married in 1939, and from whom he had been separated for several years, became final.

But mostly she wanted to go with Ty-as often, and as many foreign lands as she could.

This time, she and Ty said, the "wise guys" were wrong. This was going to last.

THE BLACK ROSE
13 DIE IN MOROCCAN FLOOD
Movie Stars Are Safe; French Actress Marooned 3 Days
May 4, 1949

MARRACKECH, French Morocco, May 3 (AP). A flash flood that rushed out of the Atlas Mountains swept away roads and bridges and took at least thirteen lives in Morocco, it was learned today.

Cecile Aubrey film starlet, has returned to camp after being marooned three days by the floods.

Orson Welles Tyrone Power and his wife Linda Christian, in Morocco to make the movie, The Black Rose, also were safe.

Miss Aubrey, 17 year old French star, was on a weekend sightseeing tour with her mother, a French officer and their chauffeur when the floods caught them near Quarzazatre, 150 miles from Marrakech in Southern Morocco.