MAETERLINCK PENNILESS
BLUE BIRDS BANNED. NEW YORK, July 20. ' M. Maurice Maeterlinck, the Bel-gian'-poet and author of “The Blue Bird,” who-has lost everything he owns as a result of the Nazi invasion of Belgium and France, reached New York to-day with his wife, who carried two blue birds in a cage. Quarantine officials refused to allow the blue birds to enter, whereupon M. Maeterlinck presented them to the captain of the ship. Although he is 77, M. Maeterlinck has decided to resume literary work to support himself. "
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1940, Page 8
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