HEART-BROKEN ACTRESS
ACCIDENT ENDS STAGE CAREER. TAKES HER OWN LIFE. Praas Association—By Telegraph— Copyright " LONDON, August 28., The Daily Mail’s Paris correspondent' says: “Overcome with tragic despair over the sudden closing of her stage career ow ing to a motor accident, Mile. Dor ska, the famous Opera Comique singer, . committed suicide with a revolver. Her real name was Baroness Drupin. She was a member of a notable French family. . “It is alleged that a few' days ago'she took a dose of veronal. She recovered, and was placed in charge of a burse. During the nurse’s temporary absence she stood in front of a mirror,, placed a revolver against her head, and pulled the trigger.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18954, 30 August 1923, Page 7
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