“Golden Girl and a £2,000,000 Husband”

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 67, 21 March 1935, Page 3

“Golden Girl and a £2,000,000 Husband”

LONDON, Alarch 2. Baron Jean Empain, ono of tho richest young men in the world, with an income of £2,000,000 a year, eamo to London from Belgium on business and felt in love with Miss Roselle Rowlands, a beautiful blonde American cabaret girl of nineteen. Ho was staying in a suite at the Dorchester Hotel, London. Thcro ho saw tho cabaret troupe, “Lcs Girls.”. Aliss Rowlands is one of tho chorus. He was struck by the act in which Aliss Rowlands wears a golden dress and is known as “The Golden Girl.” Immediately the cabaret ended, Baron Empain sent a note to her dressing room by his confidential secretary, Chassart. A few days later Aliss Rowlands left London by air for Brussels. She told only two or three intimate friends why she was going—to meet tho baron in Brusels. But she swore them to sccrccy about the date and place of tho marriage. B'aron Empain is thirty-two. lie controls the Underground Railway of Paris; ho is chairman of another thirty concerns; ho is on tho boards of directors of eighty-eight other companies. Altogether these companies are worth £200,000,000. When tic was twenty-six ho inherited an immense fortune from his father. This fortune he has doubled.

lie lias ono great longing. “Aly great possessions mean nothing to me unless I have an heir,” ho said. “I have two daughters, but my marriage was not a success. There was a divorce. Now my thoughts are on another marriage. Perhaps one day I shall fall in lovo again and God will bless mo with a son. 1 entertain between fifty and sixty people every week. But it is unc tiling to meet a beautiful woman, and another to fall in love and win her affection.”