PRETTY RUSSIAN GIRL REJOINS HER FAMILY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 160, 27 September 1927, Page 16

PRETTY RUSSIAN GIRL REJOINS HER FAMILY

ARRIVAL BY MATAROA Two months ago Miss Ester Gutman was in Moscow. Yesterday afternoon she arrived in Auckland by the Mataroa from England to join her mother and her sisters, who have been here for seme years. Miss Gutman cannot speak much English. Wrapped in a beautiful grey fur coat and carrying a kitten of the same colour, and a bouquet, she flashed her first smiles on Auckland. “Russia is not so nice now, since the unhappy war,” she said in her broken English. “It is worse now that England is not with us.” She was speaking of the diplomatic break following the Arcos House raid. “It was terrible —the civil war after the revolution.” Miss Gutman seemed to understand best when she was asked about the theatres in Russia. “The theatres — ah, that is the best I can say about Russia —its art and its -music. We have many singers as good as Chaliapin—we have lots jof Chaliapins. Pavlova, oh yes, we have many better dancers than Pavlova.” But she is happy to be in New Zealand. From under her little scarlet hat she waved to the shore, and then clasping her bouquet and her little grey kitten, she disappeared down the gangway to meet her mother and her sisters, whom she had not seen for years.