The Archive · 1938

Ogpu Boys Were Sweet To British Actress

But They Couldn't Force a Confession from Her "Eva Lowenburg, dark-haired, vivacious, London-born "variety actress, told a "Daily Express" reporter in Helsingfors recently the story of her ten months' imprisonment in Leningrad's huge Ogpu jail—a story so crazy, she said, it might be something out of 'Alice in Wonderland.'

Within two hours of the conversation Eva was in a ship bound for London and for the grand home-coming party with her mother, Mrs. Linden, of Mount Pleasant-lane, Clapton, E.

Also awaiting Eva is her ten-year-old daughter Sonia, of whom she heard not a word while in jail, and her sister Ivy, who was also arrested in Leningrad, bur released after a few hours.

Ogpu agents brought Eva to the Finnish frontier, and while awaiting a ship to take her home she has been staying in a tiny family hotel in Helsingfors.

tell you all about it, Eva said to me right from the night last April that I was hauled out of bed. asto. Cen"

1 was allowed to dress properly, mes they took me in a fine, big e to the Leningrad prison: riding ie and. I would have liked forge, XII say it was a mighty com-if we hadn't been going ananyhew, they stuck me in a cell it W35 several days before they gave me an idea what it was all about. It seems that it was because w Ts omg Lee to my husband, a y 4

before my arrest, was a -counterrevolutionary."

I answered them pr sharply, and let them know that I "Was born in Great Britain. band was, but I failed. I say I tried to find out where

not know where he is.

My cell wasn't too bad at all AN dust is dangerous for it carries Moi throat, al irritation, Sod guard against germs with allenburys ere. PASTILLES

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