the arts 52 p o r t l a n d monthly maga ine door no i the ild Child Dark-haired, dark-eyed Dorothy Rice (1889-1960) was 18 when “Girl on Mo- tor Cycle Laughs at Speedy Police” rocked Manhattan’s society pages in 1907. The heiress was “charged with driving motor- cycles on Broadway at 35 mph… Bicycle Policeman Merritt was at Eighty-fifth and Broadway when Miss Rice and her party [of six millionaire teenagers] flashed by him, ‘burning up the asphalt…’ He pursued, but at Ninetieth street was still trailing by a block. Bicycle Policemen Walsh joined him, but the speeding sextette gave them their gasoline odor and dust… Miss Rice made them hustle for 12 blocks.” fficer Mallon finally “overhauled her at One Hundred and Twelfth street, where he coaxed her to throw out the clutch” on her beloved blue Indian™ . “She begged and pleaded, shook her curls and stamped her feet, but Mallon was firm…” Dragged into 100th Street Station, her gang was photographed “in forlorn attitudes.” But Dorothy wasn’t vanquished. When the patrol wagon arrived to take them all to the courthouse for immedi- ate sentencing, “Miss Rice asked to be al- lowed to sit beside the driver. Mallon, however, insisted on accompanying her to court on his motorcycle. When ar- raigned before Magistrate Hoffman her cheeks were radiant and she seemed to enjoy the episode.” From whence the insouciance? Her fa- Daddy, I want a brand new car. ho was dorothy rice, really daddy le t a 40m ortune when he died, according to the t . Born in Bavaria, isaac rice was a new yor lawyer colu bia law , pro essor o law, usician, chess genius and i presario the rice ga bit was his signature , publisher maga ine , railroad counsel, and tycoon reading railroad, etc. . he wasn t ust a board piece he was the entire ga e o monopoly. all o which pales when co pared to his ounding the holland torpedo Boat co. later na ed electric Boat now nown as general dyna ics electric Boat . he and his subcontractors including fore river shipyard in uincy, massachusetts built stunning eets o u.s. navy sub arines or orld ar i and ii, as well as sub arines or Britain he too us under the waves. the rice ansion, “ illa ulia” on riverside drive still standing at 343 est 89th street , is a Beaux arts asterpiece na ed or her o , ulia rice, m.d., an intellectual, activist, and social powerhouse. hen tugboats on the hudson river rattled her teacups, she triu phed in a suc- cess ul co unity and newspaper ove ent to control their noise. ther owned Electric Boat. He didn’t just build the Navy’s submarines, he held the patent for them. The Rice kids and their friends were so rich their clubhouse was the St. Regis. Dorothy studied sculpture and painting in the Art Students League, with private in- struction and encouragement from Robert Henri, William Merritt Chase, John Sloan, and George Bellows. These men in capes liked her art, and they didn’t mind her fa- ther’s money, either. They suggested a one- artist show. Splashy venue, unbelievable press anticipation, jealousy from other art- ists. Likely, Dorothy sensed it was time for a new address. Cruising to Europe, she painted in a cas- tle in Madrid and studied under Joaquín Sorolla when she wasn’t in Paris (she met Rodin at his studio days after the Titanic went down). “My work went very well, part- ly due to me and partly to my subconscious, orothy ice artist,aviatri ,and rst woman to receive a . .motorcycle license.