SPANISH DANGER HISSED.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 2

SPANISH DANGER HISSED.

FAMOUS BEAUTY’S LECTURE. t 5 A sharp conflict was provoked among the audience by the one-time famous Spanish beauty and dancer known as La Belle Otero during a lecture she gave in Paris recently in an attempt to justify the numerous frank and outspoken anecdotes of her career recounted in her recently published memoirs. “I was courted, loved, and adored m kll the capitals of the world,” declared .the former dancer, “and why blame me if I said so in my book? The truth is more beautiful than the most beautiful woman. ’ ’ At these words an elderly man in the front row of scats rose excitedly and exclaimed with fervour, “Belle Otero, vou have spoken the truth.” Then amid boos 'and hisses, one woman rose in her scat and, brandishing an umbrella, exclaimed, “Shame on you. Your book is nothing but a record of moral turpitude.” Uproar greeted this remark, the audience rising in their scats, the women shouting approval, while the men booed and hissed the interrupter. The disorder reached a climax when the lecturer boasted of the fact that she had once been served up as Aphrodite on a silver dish at a now historic banquet. The cheers of the men were drowned by the groans of the women, several of whom rose and walked out of the room in disgust.