From Timaru, And Engaged to a British Film Director

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 21, 4 December 1936, Page 52

From Timaru, And Engaged to a British Film Director

‘%F the niany visitors w ho flocked to Christ- @ church’ for the November racing’ carnival "and the: Royal Show few were more attrac- -. tive thdn Miss Elizabeth Elworthy. Daughter.of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Elworthy, of Craigmore ‘Station, Timaru; whose horse Spearmarch won the Port: Cooper. Hurdles on Oaks. Day at Riccarton, "Miss ‘Elworthy was conspicuously smart among racegoers. .

, "Spud," as her friends ‘know. her} has not often been seen in Christchurch of late, having returned only in September ‘from. a "trip abroad. ‘She is to’leave for England again in March, this time accompanied by ‘her mother. There is, of course, a reason for..; this speedy return, Shortly after: her arrival she wills.marry Mr. Leonard Rudkin, an assistant-director "in Gauinont- British studios. .

Slim, grey-eyed and fair-haired, Miss .Elworthy’ should have ‘many. assets-for ‘a film career, towards... which ‘she admits she has leanings. At present she is ‘enjoying a New Zealand holiday, and after the gaities of. Carnival Week has gone north to Hawke's. ‘Bay to visit her sisters, Mrs. A. P. White and Mrs. David Williams