SHOT HER LOVER.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 2 September 1926, Page 9

SHOT HER LOVER.

THE FASHION SPREADS. TOKYO, August 2G. Mils Aiko Fukaya, 17-year-old mies of New Japan, the first young lady of this old land to turn a gun on a lover who'has proved disappointing, is runvuiag true to the Hollywood form she : «t out to imitate. She has just signed ..a contract with a prominent movie pro.ducer, and proposes to realise on all ■ the publicity that came her way when she pulled the trigger. Miss Aiko, petite, bobbed-haired and flspperish in the modern way, disdain- . ing kimono in favour of knee-length . skirts and 6corning to be a clinging fine, such as most of her Japanese sisters are taught to be, likewise turned ■-•piMt the youths of her own land and caltivated those from Western countries. ~, She made life in Japan less lonesome for the Embassy secretaries, and a number o* the young business men of the Kobe ; W!?°kyo younger set, her affections fin- % centreing on a dashing Italian, who - «*upied a cottage in the grounds of the :.«»l»n Embassy. •Celling upon him one evening recently v ;: «e;. found him cold, especially when reminded that he had promised to present _her with a diamond ring he was ?e»ring. Wearied of importuning him ™r the ring, ehe suggested the good old W»e of "Shut your eves and open your ■W and the youth fell for it. .With eyes tightly shut and' mouth "wiy agape he waited for the next 31*% He S ot it in the shape of a ~ bullet at a point due south of -* 0 Pkxus. Opening his eyes, but ,qV*g his mouth as it was, he dashed t~L*- doctor - Miss Aiko wa 3 arrested, a glare of publicity, and told to . ■; l? R ***y and ehoot no more. •J"" 5 , w iH start on her first picture