SEVENTY TONS OF LUGGAGE
FRENCH ACTRESS VISITS LONDON When Mine, Ida Rubinstein, the great French actress and dancer, left Paris recently for London, where she appeared for the first time, she travelled almost in greater style than a queen, states the Daily Mail She required at least half the train for her 70 tons of luggage, which included 2000 dresses, hundreds of hats, and scenery, mid her entourage. She took with her GO dancers and 20 singers, as well as 30 other actors, while for her own special attention she had the selectod hairdresser who always travels with her and six Parisian dressmakers who attend to her personally. Her party actually consited of 130 persons. No actress has made a descent on London in | such stylo since the time of Gaby Deslyn. " Mine. Rubinstein and her company appeared at Covent Garden Opera House for a fortnight, beginning on July 6. She appeared in plays and ballets.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 214, 19 August 1931, Page 2
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