BEAUTY'S FATE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3511, 24 June 1920, Page 5

BEAUTY'S FATE.

BALLET LEADER SHOT AS SPY. Iro von Pernyi, the leader of the Budapest ballet, has, according to news received here from Transylva.iis paid a tragic penalty for her beauty (write s the Daily Express* correspondent at Budapet.) Mile. Pernyi, acknowledged to be the most beautiful woman in pest, long resisted'all overtures for her hand. Shortly after the departure pf the Roumanians from Budapest after a stay of several months she was reported "missing." It was rumoured that a high crtlcer on the staff of General Marescu had been fortunate enough to capture the heart of the capricious dancer. A short paragraph in a Roumanian, newspaper recently announced her death for spying against Raumania. Mile Pernyi had apparently excited the envy and hatred t/.' the Roumanian women, for from a letter she wrote to a friend before her death, she declared she was the victim of a hideous plot, and that incriminating documents had been placed in • her baggage, which formed so powerful an indictment against her xluher friendship with General Maderscu's staff officer availed her nothing. General resentment against the Rumanians is felt in Budapest, as Mile. Pernyi wa s a universal favourite.