"STAR" IN A TRUNK.
Mine. Marie Kousnietzoff, who played Mimi in "La Boheme" at Cove tit Garden last month, told a "Daily Mail" reporter how she escaped from the Bolsheviks by being hidden in a trunk. Mme. Kousnietzoff was seized and interned in the fortress of Peter and Paul at Petrograd in 1918". down the badge of the legion of lion our for artists, given me by the Czar, stamp on it, and throw it into the River Neva," she said. "So the Bolsheviks kept me in prison for four months without any of my friends to see me and with only potato "cultlets" to eat and tea (without sugar) to drink. Then one day a boy who was supposed to look after my cell agreed to take messages to some of my friends outside. "They managed to send me 5000 roubles, not Bolshevist ones—and with blade bread and a piece of meat—Czar roubles ,not Bolshevist ones—and with them I bought my way out of gaol. "I fled to the house of friends, stayed hidden with them for a week, and finally dressed as a boy, with my hair cut short, managed to get aboard a Swedish steamer. "The boat was inspected Before we sailed and was stopped at Cronstadt, Ht I was not discovered—l was hidden in a trunk in the captain's cabin."
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Greymouth Evening Star, 26 July 1920, Page 7
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