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GIRL BATHER, IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON, June 18. Alighting from a motor car in Trafalgar Square, a pretty film actress, wearing a, smart green bathing costume, plunged into the fountain and enjoyed a shower bath.' She disported under the fountain for 15 minutes, when a polite, policeman requested her to desist. A huge crowd collected to watch her, and there was every [indication, of a serious traffic block occurring when she bowed daintily to the policeman and sprang down from the fountain. “1 undertook the stunt to win a wager,” she said, “just to prove that English girls are courageous enough to act as unconventionally as any girls in tile whole world.” The policeman warned her not to repeat- the adventure, or she would be prosecuted. She then drove off, waving her hand to the crowd. ' PRINCESS’ ROMANCE. NAUGHTNINESS OF ILEANA. LONDON, June 20. King Carol of Rumania, though estranged from his sister, Princess Ueana., is urgently endeavouring to prevent the blasting of her second romance. The Princess’ engagement to Count Hocbberg having being ended, she became engaged to the Austrian Archduke Auton, but, says the “Star’s” Vienna- correspondent, the prospective 'bridegroom's family con.sidered the Princess was too unconventional to he received into the Royal House of Haipsburg, and the wedding now will probably not take place. The “News-Chronicle’s” Bucharest correspondent says qfter the Princess’ engagement to Count Hocbberg was broken off, lie followed the family to Cairo and made his presence known to the Princess, who officially announced her refusal to receive him, but actually accompanied him on long motor cycle excursions along the banks of the Nile.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1931, Page 7
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