DREYFUS FILM

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 6

DREYFUS FILM

AUSTRALIAN WIDOWS FART WOMAN ’WITH A CAREER j lAu.-t and N.Z. Cable) London. May 7. An Auslralian, Madame Maggie OnkcV, widow of the brilliant French advocate. Malt re Labori. who defended Colonel Dreyfus, has been invited 1 «> view tin* talking lilm "Dreyfus.” shortly to be screened in Australia. Madame Oakey was formerly married 1.0 the famous pianist, Buchmanu. She is one of Iho few persons intimately connected with the Dreyfus affair still living. Bel ween intervals of concert work she is preparing a book from notes left by her husband, Maitre Labori, She recalls that: his fellow barristers shunned him. his briefs were cancelled. and his income fell £2OOO within r. year. "As ! was going to Court during the Dreyfus trial I found my husband lying in the street, shot in tin* spine. The antipathy towards Dreyfus was so great that, no one responded to my appeals to gel a doc!or. I was forced to run half a mile myself. My hu. band lived long enough to see Colonel Dreyfus acquitted,’’ she added.