GIRL MAULED BY LEOPARD

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 43, 13 June 1938, Page 4

GIRL MAULED BY LEOPARD

■Y . v -v Y .. - • -'.•-•••..-a.;--. • '■ . v ; *' KEPT ON DANCINGY YY As'Yv; t/ \ [LONDON, 31M/ T 6. '• Dark-haired, laughing Miss' 'TluthY Hesse, 24-year-old. star of the' cal Express” revue;Empire to-night among leopards,- one f of which yesterdfiy - seized her arm and inflicted a deep fiesli. Avouud. Her arm was bandaged' Avhere tho youngest of four.'animals which appear With her in an, act in Avliich 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, but a. Avotmd in her arm caused her to spend the night in the Leeds Dispensary. Y Y .... ' To-night, however, she insisted ans going, through Avith her act. “It J would; .not do to let it stop me,” she said. “It Was. an accident.” “I Avent to say' good-night jto my Jeopards, as I always do, arid as I was., talking to the others this one. came, from behind and seized liiy arni.” Half German;.half Russian, Miss Hesse, for seven years lias travelled nearly all over the Avorld in this rom vue. ... “This is not 'so bad as when I was bitten by a snake while, making a film in India,” she said.