SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21102, 12 August 1930, Page 17

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

One of the greatest flying of the present day is Miss Diana Guest, the young and pretty daughter of that all-round sportsman, Captain the Hon. F. E. Guest. His marvellous house and grounds at Roehampton are equipped with polo ground and riding track, covered tennis courts, and hangars and a landing ground for his aeroplanes. He has recently had some of the trees in front of the house cleared away so that he can land comfortably outside his front door! Not to be outdone, his daughter has designed an " aeroplane room" for herself. The curtains are painted Avith a design of aeroplanes in blue and silver, and another fleet of silver aeroplanes appears on the ceilirtg just above her bed. The walls of the room are blue and silver, and the doors are painted blue, with aeroplanes on the handles.

The engagement is announced in a London journal of Miss Joan Fry, the 24-year-old lawn tennis player, and, Lieutenant Ashley Lakeman, of the Royal Tank Corps. Miss Fry, who is a daughter of Dr A C. Fry, of Mansion House, Stone, Staffordshire, has for the past five years been among the foremost women players in the world. She is slim, brown-skinned, brown-eyed, and vivacious. She was formerly engaged to a South African solicitor, Mr B. G. Pagden, whom she met during a tour wjth the British tennis team in that country in 1927, but in October, 1029. the engagement was broken off. Miss Fry came into prominence as a player in 1925, when she reached the final of the singles championship at Wimbledon, but lost io Mile Lenglen. Her victories have been numerous and brilliant.