JEW AND GENTILE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

JEW AND GENTILE.

SCOTTISH GIRL'S ROMANCE. LOVE AND -PERFECT MATCH." Behind the engagement announced in Glasgow lately, of Mr. Steele Phillips, of New York, and Miss Jean Ursula Brown, of Glasgow, is a real lifo story as romantic as any plot or play film. Mr. Phillips is a Jew, Miss Brown is a charming little Scottish girl with blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Jhe romance started in London six years ago. When Miss Brown left her native city to work in London as secretary to the head of a shipping firm, she was very lonely. One of the first friends sho made was Mr. Phillips. The two fell in love, and asked the consent of Miss Browns parents to their marriage.

Giving as their only reason their firm belief that the marriage of a Gentilo girl with a Jew could not bo a happy one, the girl's parents flatly refused their consent, and insisted to her returning home to Glasgow. Mr. Phillips' father also objected to the match, and the romance apparently came to an untimely end. When, shortly afterwards, Mr. Phillips left for New York, where he had the offei of a position with sound prospects, ho was unaware of Miss Brown s Glasgow address, and the couple lost touch with each other. Two years afterwards the Scottish girl visited America on a holiday with her parents. How, by a reniarkablo coincidence, the two met each other again was learned from Miss Brown. " I had only been in New York a week or so," sho said, " when I was invited to a party at the fiat of an old school friend who married a New Yorker just after the war. You can imagine my surprise when the first man who was introduced to mo at the parly was Mr. Phillips. " For a wliilo both of us thought wo were dreaming. Wc stared at each other without saying a word. After five minutes' conversation wo found that we wero still as much in love with each othei as ever.

"It took us more than three years to persuade my parents and Mr. Phillips' father that neither of us could be happy without tho other. We are both of us very broadminded about religious questions, and wo were convinced that tho fact that he was a Jew and I a Gentile would be no bar to our happiness. Finally, we talked them round.

" How harmoniously fhe affair has ended is shown by the fact that my father and my fiance's father are going into partnership. As soon as he can settle all his affairs in New York my fiance is returning to London to join the business, and then we are t to bo married. All our friends say that it is a perfect love match."