CINDERELLA ROMANCES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 2 May 1927, Page 2

CINDERELLA ROMANCES.

IN REAL LIFE. FAIRY PRINCES STEP ONT OF FAIRYLAND. TO CLAIM THEIR LADY-LOVES Romance still beats beneath the sober guise of modern life. Girls who 1 read with envy of Cinderellas who win | the love of dashing and rich cavaliers | and besome mistress of baronial homos ; may t;.»e heart. For all they know i they may soon be planning just such a i part in just such another romance, i It is happening every day in real life. Twice within the past few weeks the story that 'Charles Garvice loved to ! write—the story of a poor girl who fell in with and married a man of position —has ha'd its counterpart in actual fact. Wedding bells have rung out a happy ending to tho romances of two girls who, at some time or other, maybe, dreamed of the coming of a fairy prince. Their princes have conic, and have flung wide for them tho gates of ! a wonderful new life. A few weeks ago Miss Eilen Hellstern a pretty Brixlon typist, was practically unknown outside her own particular circle. Neat, trim, and busincss-liko, she was known as a capable and steady girl with no nonsense about her. DRAMATIC DISCLOSURE. Nobody who saw her on her way to the office dreamed for a moment that she was the centre, of a romance which was tc get her talked about the country over. Ai d then came tho dramatic disclosure of her secret wedding to the Hon. Ivor Montagu—third son of Lord iSwaythling, tho head of tho great Jewish banking house of Samual Montagu and Company. .In one night the unknown girl, who all her life had avoided the limelight, found herself focussed in, its fiercest glare. For thousands of girls sho became a real life heroine, living a romance that hitherto had existed for them only between the pages of a novel. Just as in the story-hooks her prince had come and turned a rose-col-oured dream into a realitv.

One day, a few weeks ago. a beautiful English manrteouiii, Miss .Tunc Kathleen Dibble, employed in Paris by NT. Jean Patou, tho famous dress designer, was displaying some frocks at a fashion parade. Looking on, admiring the brilliant kaleidoscope of colour, was Mr. Frederick Alinv, a millionaire, of Long Island, New York. Their eyes mob and romance was horn. Though she didn’t know her admirer was a millionaire. Miss Dibble agreed to marry him. Just before the wedding lie told her his secret. WONDERFUL NEW WORLD. He was a fairy prince in disguise, who could transport his “Cinderella” from licr fashion salons to a wonderful new world where she could wear her dazzling gowns without having to take them off and lay them carefully away for another woman to buy. Another real life Cinderella who found her prince not long ago was Miss Bcttv Dunlop, the 23-voars-old kitchen maid of an hotel near Alytli, in Perthshire, whose marriage to Air. Hugh M. Annat. the Scottish-Amorican millionaire. thrilled feminine hearts the world over. Air. Annat was spending ni holidav at the hotel where Aliss Dunlop worked. Ho set out one dav on a fishing excursion in a touch- Men. Atilos from the nearest shelter ho was overtaken bv a violent storm. Blinded by rain, buffeted by the gale, ho lost his wav, and , thor wandering some hours collapsed exhausted. AITNISTERING ANGEL. Alight came on, and the proprietor of tho hotel, seriously alarmed, about bis guest, sent out a chauffeur to find him. For houro the search went on, and then just as' it was on the point cf being abandoned the missing millionaire was found lying behind a rock practically unconscious from fatigue and exposure. He was carried hack to the hotel, and there fount! a ministering angel in the person of Aliss Dunlop. _ Nobody could have attended him with more care and devotion. She wrapped him in blankets and made him lie before a blazing fire in the kitchen. All through Ins illness she was at his side ready to render tho slightest service. She didn’t know he was a millionaire; she just saw a man isolated from his friends and badly needing a women’s care.

HER REWARD. . All unconsciously she was sowing the seeds of a romance which was to rescue her from her pots and pans and make her mistress of a palatial New lork mansion, with everything at her command that wealth can buy. Her reward came when Air. Annat was restored to health. He proposed and was accepted. When a millionaire proudly weds a kitchen-maid, when men or aristocratic lineage choose life partners from among village maidens; and when the son of a peer wins the hand of a typist the ago of romance cannot be said to be dead.

SHOP TO VICARAGE. Not so long ago the Rev. E. I'. Winnington-Ingram, son of the Canon of Hereford, and nephew of the Bishop of London, translated a slice of romantic fiction into real life by marrying Miss Gladys Armstrong, a gardener s daughter and shop assistant to an nonmonger. The girl, a beauty of the Rosetti type with auburn hair and blue eyes, was just twonty-ono and had been m tho shop since sho was thirteen. Her fairy prince was vicar of tho parish, and it was as ono of the sopranos in tlie church choir that sho first made his acquaintance. When the marriage took place hundreds of pooplo, some of whom had walked miles, attended tho ceremony.

RADIO LOVE. Not always is it the rich hero, however. who rescues his “Cinderella from her pots and pans. Sometimes tho order is reversed with the poor man ii„ii a girl oi position as the uero and heroine. Some time ago a romantic story was cabled round the, world. Tho daughter of an earl had married a wireless operator. To these tidings was added the im formation that tho happy bridegroom was the son of a pit-waggoner. Hero was a story to thrill each fenr.n- ---■ cart! Lady Pleasanco M’Konna, the wife in this fairv tale romance, is the daughter of the Earl of Stradbroke. On a voyage in a B. and O. liner betwee Australia and Rangoon she had occasion to send a wireless message. There was only a sentence or two, hut in the brief time that it took to tap it out, Lady Pleasanco and the wireless onerafor, Owen.Al’Konna, had fallen in love!