SENSATIONAL CAREER OF AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)

SENSATIONAL CAREER OF AN AMERICAN BEAUTY.

The 'Morning Leader' New York correspondent telegraphs:—Mrs Lilian Van Schaack, who is considered to be the most beautiful woman in America, is again sensationally prominent. She is twenty-four, was married in 1890, and two years ago left her husband to commence a brilliant but meteoric career in Paris, where an English nobleman is said to have attempted suicide on her account. She next visited St. Petersburg, where on her appearance as Diana in a masquerade she is said to have attracted I?n----perial notice. Returning home she sued her millionaire father-in-law for the alienation of her husband's affections, and got $75,000. She then went on to the stage. She now sues for divorce, one of the corespondents whom she names being a Russian countess named Souscheffsky. Altogether it appears to be a cause celebre. Mrs Van Schaack accuses the oountess of recently attempting to poison" her by putting strychnine in a champagne goblet. 'When I win,' she said to mo last night, 'I shall immediately go to England, where 1 may possibly join the stage.'