ARTIST'S MODEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 11

ARTIST'S MODEL.

ATTACKED BY MEN.

FOUND AT ROADSIDE.

ROBBED OF HER HANDBAG. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, April 12. A beautiful London artist'e model. Mise Eleanor Hawthorne, was attacked by three men during a holiday vieit to Parie. She was found at the roadeide near Versailles by a motorist and taken back Lo her hotel. Her attackers robbed her of her handbag containing flO. Mise Hawthorne

lives with her actress, friend, Mies Esperance Xelina, at Cambridge Court, Paddington. Her mother, who lives at Maida Vale, told a reporter: "My daughter wrote to me to-day saying that she and Mies Xelina, with whom she has been on holiday, were returning to London to-night. "Eleanor has been out there with her friend for the last week. Miss Xelina lias been visiting friends, and Eleanor joined her." The most famous of British artiste ha v j sought Mise Hawthorne ae, a At the exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 1932 she appeared in no fewer than five pictures. She was Mr. Spenoer Watson's "Lady in Pink," Mr. Lewie Batimer's "Platinum Blonde," and Mr. Cecil Jameson's "Pauline." She has poeed for Augustus •lohn and W. Russell Flint. Miss Hawthorne was "Miss 1933" at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters' i show of that year.