A MUCH-ENVIED GIRL

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 547, 9 July 1920, Page 2

A MUCH-ENVIED GIRL

PRINCE'S DANCING PARTNER. Miss Courteney Dix has become famous, says the Melbourne coriespondent of the Sydney Sun. She was the selected dancing partner of His Royal Highness the Prince. And it was the Royal person himself who, unaided, and without introduction, made the selection. She is a good dancer —her intimate friends say they would sooner dance with her than with anyone else in the world—and this seems to be the Royal opinion.

Miss Gertrude Courtney Dix has £:et Melbourne society by the heels. There is no one in Victoria to-day, excepting perhaps the Prince of Wales, who is receiving so much publit attention. Her dresses and doings have formed the subject of the most animated conversation in all circles, but particularly in the smart set known as society. Up to Friday (June 4) Miss Courtney Dix confessed to eight dances with the Prince -and she wished to hurry to her father's home in East Melbourne to dress for that night's Federal Government House Ball. An Australian girl, Miss Dix is tht child r f well-known'public accountant of Queen Street, and a great Red Cross uoiker. She does not "put on fide"—even her social enemies sa\ that. She regards the Prince as a very nice boy, and a lovely dancer. "it is true," she said, "that I was never introduced to the Prince. 1

did not expect to be. But it is equally true that we know each other now. ft happened like this. 1 was at the first ball at Federal Government House, and my first close view of the Prince was when I was <?ancing with Captain Douglas. As soon as that dance was over the Prince came over to me and asked ne to dance. We danced. We just suited each other. He is a beautiful dancer. He works the one-step and fox-trot into everything. "Is he an engaging partner?— Why, yes. He is just a boy, and he knows how to be entertaining. We dance together just like a girl and boy—and that is everything. "How many times?— Let me .see, it's not so many times as I know people are saying. Let me count them up. Yes, we have had eight dances together-but I am going ; nain to night." When the Prince first saw Miss Courtney Dix she was wearing a white tulle frock, fashioned with the new fashionable effect, the extended hip line being' defined with small pink rosebuds. She "came out" two years :.go at i ball given by Mrs. Ross Soden, of Grong Grong, and of the Prince's festivities she had only missed the State Government douse dance and the Matron's ball at St. Kilda. The Prince has made it easy for her - she has been in everything, and her every movement has been watched with'something approaching ( . nV y—a convenient word—-by Melbourne's dowagers. She has even had a private view of the great battlecruiser H.M.S. Renown.