An Act of Despair
FRENCH ACTRESS SUJCEDES.
(United Service). (Received 10.45 a.m.) London, August 28,
The Daily Mail's'Paris correspond' ent says: Overcome with tragic despair over the sudden closing of Jffer stage career owing to a motor accident, Madanioiselle Dorska, the .famous opera comiquo singer, committed suicide with a revolver.
•Her real name was Baroness jDrufin, member of a notable French famay-
It is- alleged that a few days ago she took aldose of veronal, but recovered and wasi placed in charge pf a nurse. During the nurse's temporary, absence, she "stood in ;front,.ofa mirror; placed a revolver against her head, and fired.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 97, 29 August 1923, Page 6
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