BRIGHTON AGOG
DUKE IN LOVE WITH BEAUTY QUEEN'S PHOTOGRAPH. Brighton is talking about an English duke anda Brighton "beauty que'en and people say. that the duke has fallen in love with her photograph, which he saw in a newspaper. The girl is Miss Esme Bankhead, who lives at Hove, and has just won her 13th beauty contest. An English correspondent gives ex'tracts from a letter written by the Duke and received by Miss Bankhead. It was written on July 31, and parts of it run: "Dear M|iss Bankhead. — Will you forgive this letter from a complete stranger?. I have to-day seen your 'charmimg picture . . ." "I have the greatest admiration for your picture. I do not, know if you would send me a photograph', but be assured I should appreciate it more than enormously, and, if perchance one day we might meet, that would for me be most delightful . . "I must not bore you. A lettet from you would be acceptable, so I 'wonder if you would be angelic enough to use the enclosed envelope / J) "Perhaps I shall never hear from you at all, and that would be a tra- '■ gedy."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 2
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191BRIGHTON AGOG Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 2
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