SOCIETY WEDDING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 307, 28 December 1937, Page 2

SOCIETY WEDDING

DILLON—WILLIAMS. A \\ fueling of Dominion-wide interest took place recently at St. Paul’s Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, when Joan Ellie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Williams, Heretaunga, was married to Patrick Phillip Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. N. Dillon, Marlborough. The Rev. Gordon McKenzie performed the ceremony. The bride's lovely gown of white carioca crepe had long sleeves, an exceptionally long train, and a wide belt made entirely of orange blossoms. A band of blossoms held her long white tulle veil in place and she carried a sheaf of madonna lilies. Her bridesmaids were Miss Phillipa Riddiford (Featherston), Miss Jocelyn Ilornabrook (Masterton), Miss Elizabeth Ritchie (Dunedin), Miss Patricia Ritchie (Timaru), Miss Diana Allen (Christchurch), and Miss Nancy Teschemaker (Marlborough). They were dressed alike in frocks of white stiffened dimity patterned with a tiny white floral design and worn over white taffetas and finished with wide sashes of green taffetas with double bows at the back, the ends reaching to the ground. In their hair was worn white stephanotis, and each carried a sheaf of white water lilies. The best man was Mr. Michael Dillon, brother of the bridegroom, and the ushers were Messrs. Brian Trolove, Tom Davies, Joe Bunnv, Alister Williams and Dr. Williams" The reception took place at the home of the bride's Barents at Heretaunga. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Dillon's future home will be in Marlborough.

QUICK SUCCESS IN LONDON ELAINE HAMILL SECURES TEMPTING OFFERS Elaine Hamill, the al tractive young New Zealand actress, formerly of Taihape, who gained her entire stage training in Australia during the last three years, and who was the winner of a film contest, feels like a princess in a fairy tale, and sometimes wonders if she will wake up and find her good fortune all a dream, says a London correspondent in the Daily Telegraph, Sydney. Within two short weeks of arriving in London, she has made two important broadcasts from the 8.8. C. (one in television), and as a result of her pretty face appearing in the picture pages of a Sunday newsapper with over a million readers, has received offers from three leading British film companies.

As well, there is a definite offer to sign a contract with the Birmingham Repertory Company, which she is unlikely to accept, for there is no doubt that fame and fortune on a very much larger scale are just around the corner for Elaine.

From the beginning things went well with her, and luck turned her way. Although she knew few people in London, it seemed that everyone she met was eager to help and secure introductions to important people. To anyone who realises the hopeless struggle some ambitious young girls from overseas have had, encountering the stony indifference that can be London’s, lhe story is infinitely more romantic than any fiction. "How did it all happen? I just determined to leave Australia and come to London to look for more stage experience, with a light heart and a certain amount of money in the bank,” she told me, her grey eyes dancing with happiness. .Meeting Many People. "Since I arrived I have devoted th? whole of my time to just meeting people. I’ve not. even had time Io go to lhe theatre. I’ve an Australian friend, Loraine Streeter, from Brisbane, who is attached to lhe staff of a big Fleet. Street daily newspaper, and

it was through her that my picture appeared. "Immediately afterwards I was approached by the 8.8. C., and found myself being televised, telling the story of some amusing incidents I have encountered touring with theatrical companies in Australia—all about lhe experiences I had when buried alive in an earthquake in New Zealand in 1931. Nervous? Yes, horribly, although I'd broadcast befor« at home. Fortunately, there is now no need to be plastered with the macabre blue make-up, which was necessary when television first began. An ordinary film make-up is worn.