Zoubkoff as Dancer Adventurer’s Latest “Stunt”

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 660, 11 May 1929, Page 18

Zoubkoff as Dancer Adventurer’s Latest “Stunt”

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LEXANDER.ZOUBKOFF,, , the notorious 2S-vear-old ! ( husband of Princess Victoria of Schaumberg Lippe, the ex-Kaiser’s

sexagenarian sister, was to have made his debut on the Paris stage recently. He was engaged to appear in a; sketch at the Broadway Theatre, in which he was to take the part of the j “hero’* who falls in love with a prin- J cess. He was expelled from France be- j fore he married his Royal wife, but j he has received permission tc stay in I, Paris on condition that he has a regu- |i

-lar job and that he benaves normally. | Young Zoubkoff is willing to do anyI thing he is told on the stage “on condition that some vodka is placed at his disposal.” Recollections of Paris In the course of an interview, Zoub- | lcoff—who started life as a sailor, and | who had been exercising all sorts of j professions before he became a j dancer ("the job thanks to which I j met my wife”) —said that he intended | to get an engagement in a circus in Luxembourg when he was offered a role in the sketch on the Paris stage. He added that his wife, the Princess, would join him in Paris in the near future.