BIGGEST WOMAN

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3767, 10 June 1936, Page 3

BIGGEST WOMAN

A record is claimed by Miss Elsa Droyson, who has come to London to appear in a pantomime. She is eight feet tall and weighs 27 stone 7 pounds. On the strength of these dimensions, she claims to be the world’s largest woman. With her are her married sister Brunhilde, who is seven feet four inches tall, and weighs 27 stone 1 pound, and Brunhilde's daughter, Ruth, who at 14 years of age is already over six feet in height. Everything the sisters wear has to be specially made. Their shoes are size 15 and their gloves 14. Their parents were of normal size and their brother and three sisters living are not exceptionally tall.

When they arrived in London, they found no taxi was big enough to take them from the station to their hotel —so an ambulance had to be chartered.

Elsa, though single, has had many proposals. At the moment, however, her mind is on other matters. For one thing she would like to grow a' little taller still!