CHOCOLATE BOX GIRL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17532, 29 July 1931, Page 12

CHOCOLATE BOX GIRL

ENGLISHMAN’S PASSION LOCATED IN VIENNA NOTTINGHAM (Eng.), June 1. When George Churchman, a young Nottingham siudent, came' across Urn picture of a fascinating blonde on tlie lid of a chocolate box, he decided lorthwith Hint lie must find the original. Jt seemed a. hopeless passion. The picture might only nave been an artist s conception of a type. (Ju the oth?r hand, if the original existed, she might lie happily married. Mr. Churchman decided to put his luck to the test. “i wrote to the manufacturers asking if they knew the name of the original,” lie told a reporter recently. “They replied saying that they did not, hut gave me the name of the artist, an Austrian living in Vienna. 1 promptly wrote to him asking him if he could help me.”

A week later Air. Churchman had the name of his chocolate box beauty. It was J'Taulcin Sonia Eichberg, a 2lr-vear-old German mannequin, who acts as a model in her spare time. Posthaste went a plea to Berlin in which Mr. Churchman told the story of his romantic quest and asked if Fraulcin Sonia would correspond with him with a view to a meeting.

.Frauleiu Sonia not only would, hut did. A week later Air. Churchman got a letter from her saying that she had always wanted to learn English and welcomed the opportunity of corresponding with a young Englishman. It lias now been arranged that she shall spend a fortnight’s holiday in Nottingham with Mr. Churchman's family. But the pretty Frauleiu is a very practical woman.

The circumstances of her friendship with Mr. Churchman may lie romantic, hut her stay in England is going to bo very business-like.

“f am coming to learn English and study your English shops,” she says.