WOMAN’S LIFE OF THRILLS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12751, 6 January 1936, Page 3

WOMAN’S LIFE OF THRILLS

LIVED IN STRANGE PLACES

BACK 'TO LONDON POT? A SPELL

LONDON. Nov. 23,

A remarkable London woman wlio spends her time in places where white people are rarely, it ever, seen lias returned for a brief stay in her Bloomsbury flat. She is Miss Amy Broker, the painter, one of the artists showing in the Royal Society of Portrait Painters’ Exhibition which opened this week at the Royal Institute! Galleries. Her dark eyes sparkled with lain «« she spoke of the strange things she has seen and done. During the recent Chaco war in South Ameiea- her house was between the firing lines. The walls were peppered with hnllets. She has lived in—

La. Play, Bolivia, the highest town in the world, 12,000 loot up; Bullydavid, Ireland, the most westerly point in Europe; •Eng O Su, where Mongolia and Manelui.ri'a meet, and where the peasants. had never seen a white face; Tan turn. IPlestine, an Aral) village (in. the Bible railed T)or1 where she was alone for three months; Abyssinia.

Mar drove, her out of Abyssinia, where he had spent 14 happy months. You wdll find the most distinctive and unusual types there, she says.

One of her paintings is of her watchman's -slave girl. She was the “boss” of the family and scolded him soundly if lie came home late.

Rhe is now finishing a painting of n peasant Ainluu 'e wedding near Addis Ababa. The feast began at the bride’s but- Then flie bride travelled for 00 hours by mule to the bridegroom’s hut for the* second least of several days' duration. Miss Linker also painted the Emperor, Ilailo. •Selassie.

She is a great swimmer. The only thing that keeps her out of the water is a. crocodile.

She does not like civilisation because “the people are all al'ke.-’