The Tailor from Gary, Indiana who inherited a nightclub in 1930s Peking

A bizarre tale from the Santa Ana Register I don’t know the end of…..In January 1937 48-year-old Jacob Schwarz, a tailor living a quiet life in Gary, Indiana received notice that his aunt, the fantastically named Blimme Ginsberg, had died in Peking. In her will she had left Jacob $2,500 worth of diamond jewellery, a collection of perforated Oriental coins (apparently virtually worthless unfortunately)…and a nightclub. Jacob had not seen his aunt since he was five years old, though had kept up a regular correspondence with her. Blimme apparently ran a nightclub in Peking, though sadly the newspaper report does not reveal its name or location. Jacob opted to stay by his steam press in Gary and turned over the management of the nightclub to an attorney of his acquaintance in Tientsin (Tianjin). Jacob told the papers in Gary that he intended to go and see the club in a year or so – given that a few months later Peking was invaded by the Japanese I’m guessing he never went.

And so a little mystery – who was Blimme Ginsberg and what and where was her nightclub?

I have no idea and no trace of her can be found (by me at least)…but out there somewhere….???