DREYFUS FILM.
AUSTRALIAN WIDOW'S PART. LONDON, May 1. The Australian, Madame Maggie Oakey, the widow of the brilliant French advocate, Maitre Labori, who defended Coloiiel Dreyfus, has been invited to view the talking" film, "Dreyfus," shortly to be screened in Australia. Madame Oakey was formerly married to the famous pianist, Pachmann. She is one of the few persons intimately connected with the Dreyfus affair still living. Between intervals of concert work she is preparing a book from notes left by her husbarid, Maitre Labori. She recalls that his shunned him, his briefs were cancelled, and his income fell £2000 Within a' year. "As I was going to Court during the Dreyfus trial I found my husband lying' in the street, shot in the epine. The antipathy towards Dreyfus was so great that no one responded to my appeals to get a doctor. I was forced to run half a mile myselL' My husband lived long enough to see Colonel Dreyfus acquitted," she added.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 106, 7 May 1931, Page 7
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