Girl's Masquerade

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)

Girl's Masquerade

OLGA BIASKA, • pretty One by one she promised to marry brunette of 21, in Pintle !? er ?' 0,,W be lovers—if they could finance Poland, po-d fo, .-Wi-menU.' £23$ 'thUTXn °.h There are many pretty girls in Poland, impoverished them. so she decided to pose as a man and soon Thirty-five times "Mr. Biaska" became became one of the most popular Vmen" ® n j?&gecl before a pretty young widow, models for all kinds of advertisements J' e * e f m,r| ed to marry the slim, goodand magazine cover*. looking young "man," threatened to go She took to wearing men's clothes ° ni e l ) 0 lce w ,en he hedged, "offstage," and her beautiful, regular 9 a ßTeement to marry postponed features, her roguish smile fascinated ®*P?f. uro U JJ,V a « te r, ,* he . e ' a borate liundreds of girls, who begged to be «. i n §' , , e , wife, infuriated, allowed to meet her. w »•' J he ".8 ave her »> charge. i nf nl _„ _ . ' - . N ow Mr. Biaska is once more in skirts intrigued, met son# ox tfieni in —in g prison cell men'sßothes. They fell deeply in love When she came'before the Pinsk Court with her, proposed marriage-and opened for obtaining money by false pretences, Olga s eyes to an easier way of obtain ng people in the public seats laughed openlv money than by posing for advertising as the story of her "romances" was photographs. unfolded.