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Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 2

Helene Odilon. who was at one ti'mo the star ol the Vienna theatres, renowned for her beauty and notorious for her extravagance and her many love a flairs. has appeared in the capital again. cars ago she contracted an incurable <hsea.se and became paralysed and lame. Alter spending her large lorl nne site took refuge in the almshouse at Salzburg, whence she arrived here a few days ago. The newspapers published a letter from her to the general public, in which she appealed to the “golden Viennese heart." and announces that she is going to p!a\ her last role in life. She is making a round of the tea-rooms of the fashionable hotels selling postcards with her photograph, and. when asked, she relates stories ol her life. .Many prominent personages who were friends ol the pielty and gay Helene in their young days are suddenly coining forward and giving her slims ol money in order not to he mentioned in her plicpiant little stories. One pound two shillings a. month would pay lor her maintenance in the Salzburg almshouse, and her former Inverts are subscribing enough to pay for her hoard and lodging in advance for fhe next ten years.