"LIVE ON DREAMS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 109, 9 May 1940, Page 23

"LIVE ON DREAMS."

A PRIMROSE PATH.

WIFE OF WEALTHY MAJOR

DANCE HOSTESS AGAIN. LONDON. April 10. Mr*. Daisy Lilian Grigg told me last nicrht of her life as the wife of a wealthy Mayfuir major. A life spent in a luxurious town fl atl their Lome in the country," or aboard their £20 000 yacht, relates a "Daily Express reporter. Li those days she spent from £1000 to £1 ,00 a year on clothes. She toured the world, competed in a £.5000 racins ■Veo larg€ hOUS€ "P*" , ** fo<?r And now? Mrs. Grigg. danee hostess ber.>re she married, Jβ a dance hosted ea : o ;un ? T a few Pounds a week. , ls ~ J ; l hve °'i memories and dreams, ehe says. Mrs. Grid's husband. Major Ralph Stuart On ?? . of Dormy Cottage, Wentvorth. Surrey, described ae \-hairman aiHl director, of a company selling motor cars, yesterday lost hi* tlio of his second petition for divurce. "i' iMtli occasions ho alleged miseon-du.-t wit ii Mr. .lohn Wild, a professional <laiu-iiiL r partner. la the first petition, Mrs. wag iil-o refused divorce or judicial separation. ' The Master of the Roll* said yesterday: -[ii order to accede to tlie considerations urged on behalf of Major (irigg I must see the witnesses, and that is an opportunity and an advantage, which this court never has." Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was refused. After the judgment, Mrs. Grigg said to me: '"It is very difficult to readjust myself after having lived at the rate of £-2-3,000 a year. A Life of Contrast. "My weekly expenditure now, apart from actual rent is roughly what I u.-od to spend a week at niy West End hairdressers. That was about £2 a Week. '"I miss most my lovely home in the country, and the yachting which I adored. "I was not terribly keen on London life. I preferred the countryside to the lite in London, with its pleasure-parties and dancing in the fashionable hotels. "I had every comfort. A luxurious flat in Mayfair, a Rolls-Royce, to take me to wherever I wiehed to go—beautiful jowcllery and as many clothes as I could wish far from the leading dressmakers. "My clothes usuallv cost from £1000 to £1500 a year. All that I have left is a mink cape and a diamond Donald Duck brooch, which my husband gave me as a birthday present.

"It bring* me. luck now, and I shan't part with it. The girls at the West End restaurant where I work often come up to me and touch it. "Having had all these t'hmjre I miss them now. It is right that one should philosophise, and at least treasure the memories of happy, enjoyable days. "When I was first married we had a. lovely 450-ton yacht, named Latharna. I spent my honeymoon- in the yacht cruising along the French coast. "For the next throe years we spent about five months of the year criming either in the Mediterranean, Baltic or Adriatic. "There are so many lovely things I like to remember. Venice, the Dalmatian coast, beautiful Greece and Malta. I was at Malta for the King George V. jubilee celebrations. "It mostly seemti part of another world now. •"11l 1934 my husband took me to America. I had always wanted to see ■the Xew World. Memories And Realities. "We went to see the race for the America's Gup. I was invited aboard such famous yachts ae Mr. Sopwith's Vita, and the very beautiful Corsair belonging to the Morgan family. "We became so attached to yachting that my husband spent £5000 to build an international 12-metre racing yacht.

"She was named Miquette—my nickname. Wβ spent one season living aboard our steam yacht, and racing in Miquette at all the" chief regattas, from Lowestoft to the west country. "The Miquette raced at Cowes. The weather was dreadful, and many yachts capsized. On one memorable day our yacht was the only one in its class to complete th'e eouree. "During that season I took part in one race'"aboard the famous Britannia. "We generally came tack for the Ascot race meeting and gave large house ■parties. I did not bet much, only a few pounds on a horse at a time. 'Then in 1935 my husband decided that we should have a larger and more luxurious yacht. He bought a 750-ton yacht from an American millionaire for £20,000. "It was nearly twice the size of our old yacht, and richly furniehed with antique French furniture. "We were a/ble to accommodate 20 guests, apart from the crew of about 35. "During the review of the Fleet by King Georcre V. we had a luncheon party of between 50 and GO, and a fancy dress ball in the evening. I attended as a Greek soldier. "Now I often think of the future. I am not voung, and I am not old. Sometimes I think I shall throw up my work as a dance hostess, and take to nursing. '•Oh, well," she sighed. "It's realities not day dreams for me now." With which Mrs. Grigg left go back to the job which brings her in those few pounds a week.