MISS JOAN KINGDON

Shannon News, 27 July 1926, Page 4

MISS JOAN KINGDON

—4 . ROMANTIC ENGAGEMENT. LONDON, June 2. Miss Joan Kingdon, who toured Australia and New Zealand with Mr Seymour Hicks and Miss Ellaline Terriss, is to be married shortly to Mr Roland Johnson, an author and lawn tennis coach. Miss Kingdon is understudying Miss Fay Compton, at the Haymarket in “The Woman Business.” The engaged couple met in rather remarkable circumstances, last October, when both were travelling by the same train from the Riviera to Paris. The story goes that the English girl, who was travelling alone, was being worried by strangers in the compartment, who would persist in talking to her, although she had told them their attentions were unwelcome. Then a young Englishman, chancing to pass the compartment, saw what was happening, and constituted himself a rescue party. A week later the two again met in London, and they became engaged.

"I was much relieved when he came to my aid in the train.” Miss Kingdon said. “He was wearing plusfours, which seemed to mark him out as an Englishman, and that gave me confidence. I discovered afterwards that he was * ravelling as far as Dijon, but he cfta?»»*a mind and escorted .me home to London.”