MARY MILES MINTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 400, 14 July 1928, Page 23

MARY MILES MINTER

FORMER STAR WILL WED “A REAL MAN”

HER HUNGARIAN IDEAL

What a tortuous path is that trod by Miss Minter —to go back just a few years. In 1924 she complained that her mother owed her 700,000 dollars, collected by her during the years Mary was under 21. Mary was more or less silenced by Mrs. Minter threatening to expose her love affairs. Some of the names thp mother mentioned were Gaston Glass, Louis Sherwin and Dr. Mixsell. Becoming friends a year later, Mrs. Minter gave Mary 100,000 dollars. Sued By Her Maid

A few months after the mother-and-daughter reconciliation Mary fell out with her maid, Katherine Herlily. The latter sued for 50,000 dollars for being discharged without receiving the wages alleged to be due to her. There were some lively personal conflicts between Mary and the maid, pending the hearing of the case. One of these resulted in the former having Katherine gaoled for a night. The outcome was a further action, ending in Mary having to pay the maid 1,000 dollars. Many other troubles have overtaken Mary—most of “.hem of a minor character. Still, the effect was to keep her unpleasantly in the limelight. One of these had its setting in Paris, with the mention of the name of Captain Harold Spencer. Side by side with everything else the United States Government has been pressing Mary with regard to her income-tax. No adjustment could be effected. At any rate, on December 3, 1927, the Government sued her for back taxes amounting to 207,601 dollars.

And this it would appear, still remains to be cleared up if Mary desires to start her marriage with a perfectly clean slate!

A MERICAN friends of the -“• one-time picture star, Mary Miles Minter, are at present speculating as to whether her troubles are at last to end in her approaching marriage with the Hungarian concert tenor, John Diskay—“a real man,” she declares him to be.