Chairs were smashed, tables overturned, and mirrors broken in the dressing-room of Gitta Alpar. Hungarian gold-blonde opera singer and film star of "Mme. Dubarry" fame, during a catch-as-catch-can fight between Emmerich Hiro, her manager, and Albert Lange, a German emigrant journalist, on night of Jan. 15, wires the "Sunday Express" Vienna correspondent.
The following Wednesday night, with Bryan and John, the girls went to Hyde Park and were stopped by nine or ten other men, from. whom they asked money.
In each case we took the fellows down a side path and Bryan and John would follow us down there, point the revolver at the man, and demand his money and search him.
We got about £2 out of the nine or ten men.
Emmerich Hiro was busy explaining to Gitta Alpar their accounts of the past week.
Lange kept on interrupting with ironical remarks.
When the manager tried to push the journalist out of the dressing-room they came to blows.
Gitta Alpar, in her dressing gown, rushed out and yelled for help. Stage hands separated the fighters.
After a quarrel with the men the girls left the flat the next morning and booked beds at a lodging house in Lower Marsh, London. S.E.
When a police inspector told the younger girl he was going to take her to her parents, she replied: There is no need. I do not want to see either of them. Iam not going back home.
Emmerich Hiro had his left eye cut Open, and was treated by the stage doctor.
Gitta Alpar, a non-Aryan, divorced two years ago from the Aryan German film star Gustav Froehlich, is now playing the leading part in "Antoinette," a light opera staged at the Budapest theatre.
The elder girl said the two men had een her taken away by the police and had since disappeared.
The younger girl was sent to an approved school at Watford, and the elder, whose mother said she was easily led, was placed under the supervision of a woman probation officer.
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