Sydney War Bride in U.S.

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 124, 29 May 1944, Page 8

Sydney War Bride in U.S.

First Australian war bride to give an interview on how she found life in the home town of her American husband was former Sydney theatre cashier Mrs. Dulcie Lindsay Gallup. The interview, featured as a line-up of conditions in Australia and America, could more accurately be regarded as a comparison between one small section of Sydney life and that of an American city. Wife of much-decorated Major Charles Stephen Gallup six Zeros to his credit), 25-years-old Mrs. Gallup was found in the comfortable, old-fashioned Chicago flat of her parents-in-law. “Different generations mix more in America than they do in Sydney,” she said. “Stephen’s parents, for instance, go out with us in a foursomo. That wouldn’t happen at home, and it’s nice. Americans visit each other’s homes more often than wo do. We keep more to ourselves at home, meeting our friends in public places. Compared with Australians, Americans arc night owls. Everything in Sydney—hotels, night clubs—closes at midnight, when Americans are just beginning.” Added Mrs. Gallup: “Food here is so different. I think cheese with apple pie, pork sausages with hot cakes and fruit salad served as a salad instead of a sweet are crazy.” She said she might get used to that after doing a “postgraduate” course of homo economics under her American mother-in-law. Mrs. Gallup was married in Svdney last August, was one of 12 Australian and New Zealand brides who arrived m America in the same ship recently. A warning to girls marrying American soldiers came from actress Helena Pickard (beautiful wife of Sir Cedric Ilurdwickc) who arrived in England from America to entertain troops.* Said Lady Hardwicke, who worked in the Stage Door Canteen and the Allied Merchant Navy Canteen in New Ttork for four years: “Life in tho L.S.A. isn’t all Hollywood and swimming pools. American men give more to their wives, but also demand more. Their wives must be able and willing to cook, clean and klbp house and children perfect—and they must keep themselves glamorous. Americans, especially in small towns, are very family conscious, largely owing to the attitude of mothers who encourage their boys to have a good time.”