THREE DAYS' SALE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 13

THREE DAYS' SALE

NIGHT CLUB QUEEN

The three days' sale of the personal property of ' "Texas Gum'an," "night club queen," which was expected to realise £50,000 at least, brought just over £3000. Of this £1500 was derived from her diamonds and other jewellery. The proceeds, will go to the Actors' Kelief T?und. ' '"

. Guinan's £6000 armoured limousine, listed as" having* been "made for , the King of the, Belgians," in which for several years she defied gangsters, brought £16. ; Her Eolls-Royco went for £ SO. The armour-plated car came to Guinan as a'gift.from tho late Larry Fay, a "racketeer." who was murdered recently. Ho claimed to have bought it from the estate of Alfred Lowbnstern, the financier, who met his death by falling from an aeroplano into the English Channel. It bore tho crest of the King of the Belgians.

Guinan's gold dinner set, valued at £200, went for £25. Ivory swords, said to have been presented to Blanche Sweet, the film actress, by the Emperor of Japan, were sold for £1 each. An exquisite- elpck from the- Palace of Fontainblcu went for £4 10s, and a gold and coral telephone, which cost. £40, for £8.., Chinese draperies, etchings, and books were almost given away. Some etchings, described as being valuable/fetched only 6d.

The telephone iii Buckingham Palace rang incessantly on January 13. Inquiries about the King's health poured, in. Scores of people,. tried -to ;pui through trunk calls to Sandringham, where the King was in residence. It was all because of an unfounded rumour that the King was seriously ill.' It spread like wildfire through London. TheVtruth is that the. King was in excellent health. He spent a large part of his time that day with' the Prime Minister, who was staying at Sandringham : for the weekend. They, went for a walk together, in the, morning. The rumour originated in America, and came to London with a cable','inquiry* from. Now Yqrk,. . .; - ' ■ ;