SUZANNE LENGLEN

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1926, Page 1

SUZANNE LENGLEN

TO MARRY A REPORTER. Suzanne Lenglen' is engaged to be married to Jacques Brindejones Offenbach, poet and writer, and grandson of Jacques Offenbach, the lamous composer of ‘-The Tales of Hoffman” (says an exchange). The temperamental queen of the courts chose her intended husband outside the ranks of tennis players, but M. Offenbach is considered one of the most delightful poets of the younger generation of French letters. The engagement is hailed as a real lore match. Suzanne was twentyseven years old on May ’_M. while Offenbach is thirty-six. Offenbach, unable to wield a. racket, and seldom seen about the tennis courts, was smitten with Mdlle. Lenglen during the hard court tournaments at St. Cloud in 1921, in which the French champion defeated Mrs Media Mallory. During the intervening time, while reports of M.dlle. Lenglen’s engagements succeeded one another, the poet kept well in the background. Recently ho and his wife wire divorced by mutual consent. The announcement of the betrothal on me as a great surprise to Pans. Offenbach has been accepted by the Lenglen family, but it lias not been decided whether the wedding will take place before the Wimbledon tournament this year or after. Mdllo Lenglen’s fiance is a reporter for the newspaper “Lc Gaulois, ’ acting ns musical and literary critic.