SINGER’S ROMANCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 347, 30 April 1935, Page 5

SINGER’S ROMANCE

I * ‘LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT’ ’ } | ELSA STRALIA To MARRY PATEA | RESIDENT. | i Press Association —Copyright Wellington, April 29. I Madam Elsa Stralia, the noted Aus- | Italian soprano, was an arrival in the t Monowai from Sydney to-day. She has come to New Zealand to be married to Mr. Adolph Christensen, of Patea, and will take up permanent residence in this country. In an interview Madam Elsa Stralia and Mr. Christensen, who met her in Wellington, confirmed their engngament. They stated that the marrage would not take place for sevI oral months. They first met at Patea I about four months ago on the occasj icn of Madam Elsa Stralia’s last visit i to the Dominion. “It was love at first j sight,” she said, in describing the cirI cumstances of the meeting. “After j having become known to each other j for only three days we became engaged.”

1 Madam Elsa Stralia was accomI panied on the trip across by Miss ! Ruth Maun, of Wellington, a young singer for whom Madam predicts a | future, and the girl’s aunt, Mrs. Mac- | keuzie Forbes, of Wanganui, j Now that New Zealand was to be j her home, Madam Elsa Stralia added, | she intended to do all she could to j assist young New Zealand singers.