GIRL MAULED BY LEOPARD
KEPT ON DANCING LONDON, March 1G Dark-haired, laughing Miss Ruth Hesse, 24-year-old star of the "Tropical Express" revue, danced at Leeds Empire to-night among leopards, cne of which yesterday seized her arm and inflicted a deep flesh wound. Her arm was bandaged where the youngest of four animals which appear with her in an act in which she dances among them in a leopard skin, caught her through the bars of its cage after the performance last night. A stage hand dragged her away, b-it a wound in her arm caused her to spend th<? night in the Leeds Dispensary. To-night, however, she insisted on going through with her act. "It would not do to let it stop me," she said. "It was an accident. "I went to say good-night to my leopards as I always do, and as I was talking to the others this one cr.ne from behind and seized my arm." Half German, half Russian, Miss Hesse, for seven years has travelled nearly all over the world in this revue. "This is not so bad as when I wis bitten by a snake while making a Sim in India," she said.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 16
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198GIRL MAULED BY LEOPARD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 16
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