CLARA BOW’S CARD LOSSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 4

CLARA BOW’S CARD LOSSES

STAKE ERRORS AND CHEQUES LOS ANGELES, Get. 10. Miss Clara Bow, the film Star, has cleared up the mystery of the cheques for £2780, hearing her signature, which were paid at a gambling house in Reno, Nevada, and later returned marked “ Payment stopped.” She stated that she went to dinner at a Reno hotel with Mr. Rex Bell, a film actor, and her woman secretary at the invitation of Mr. Will Rogers, the humorist. She did not know at the time that the hotel was also a gambling place. After dinner she tried her luck at the game called “Twenty-one” or “Pontoon.” She staked with what she thought were 50 cent (2s) pieces, but was later told that they represented £2O apiece. She signed four blank cheques and told the hotel management to fill in the amounts due, and was greatly surprised when cheques representing £27SO were presented at her bank. When the bank told her about them she ordered them not to be paid. Mr. Will Rogers has vouched for the truth of Miss Bow’s story, commenting that “introducing Clara anywhere is like introducing President Hoover in the United States.”