Night Club “Queen”

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18064, 15 April 1933, Page 9

Night Club “Queen”

THE “secrets" promised in the title of the late Mrs Ivate Mcyrick's book, “Secrets of the 43,” arc mostly of the predictable order —naive gossip about the extravagances of moneyed men, the romances of d&nce instructresses, instances of psychic premonitions, and long lists of names of known and unknown people who passed through her night clubs. Ronald True, she wrote, ran amok on the dance floor,on the night preceding the committal of his crime, and was only restrained from murder there and then by the hypnotic power which Mrs Mcyriek acquired when helping her doctor husband with chronic nerve cases. Patrick Mahon, the Crumbles murderer, she remembered because “ho actually gave one of our girls £25 for a single dance.” Alfred Loevvcnstein, who fell to his death from an aeroplane, and the late James White were two financiers who wondered why Mrs Mcyriek wasted her business talents ou night clubs, and volunteered to make her rich beyond the dreams of avarice. But despite her various terms of imprisonment she continued in the career which, as she romantically remarks, enabled her to see “real Life,: brilliant and pulsating.” A good week at one club alone brought £SOO profit, and she estimated that between 1919 and i 9.152 something like £500,000 passed through her hands. . . !