MARIE DRESSLER’S WILL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 2

MARIE DRESSLER’S WILL

A SISTER’S OPINIONS. Gold is not everything. It will purchase many things, but it will not purchase *happiness. One likes that statement made by Airs. Ganthony, of Surrey, who, when informed that her sister, Marie Dressier, had left her the greater part of her £60,000 estate, said: "Money has no attraction for me. I do not care, much about luxuries, but I have an adopted boy and several pov-erty-stricken friends, whom I shall be glad to help," writes Mary’Fanecourt in the Sydney Morning Herald. Marie Dressier, the film actress, with whom we have often laughed and often wept, was by no means young, and presumably her widowed sister is fairly aged; but the

love of money is not confined to the • young. There is something touching, 1 therefore, in that remark, "money has ( no attraction for me"—something very beautiful in her thought for others. Mrs . Ganthony lives in a one-roomed flat. 1 •She could not possibly live in a more . simple way than that; yet. she finds in I it all that she desires. In the words j she has uttered there is a sermon for , us all. The great secret of life lies not [ in riches, but in contentment; and there may be more joy in a simple, homely life than in many a luxurious palace. |