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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18961, 7 January 1930, Page 12

A Young Champion. Miss Helen Wills, who has just been married quietly in America, is just twenty-three, and she won the American girls’ tennis championship at the age of fifteen. She is placid and demure, in strong contrast to the great Suzanne, who is temperamental and vivacious (says an exchange). She is a hard hitter, above all, but has developed her game soundly all round. For one who has held so many championships already, and has stepped into the place vacated by Mademoiselle Lenglen, Miss Wills is decidedly young, but her youth gives point to a remark attributed to Miss May Speirs, New Zealand’s foremost lady player, that if a girl is going to be a champion she should be showing distinct signs of it by the age of eighteen.

Princess Mary Favours Green. Princess Mary, who for so long has been faithful to her favourite shade of blue and -wild rose pink, has chosen (remarks a writer) green for one or two of her frocks of late, and there is no doubt that the pretty, soft shades of jade and lettuce-green are just as becoming to her. When I saw Princess Mary at a race meeting recently, everyone was admiring her long coat, cut on simple lines, of delicate apple-green, covering a frock of the same shade. Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles, both keen racegoers, have been staying with Lord and Lady Lonsdale in Scotland for one of the big meetings.