Alice and the Wangi Club

Alice was a ‘society lass’ whose activities had been reported regularly since her schooldays at Southport on the Gold Coast. Newspapers noted her excellent performances in Shakespearean and Greek plays staged by St Hilda’s school for girls, where she won a special prize for dramatic art. They followed her into adulthood, describing the elegant dresses she donned for various parties and balls. And they recorded her wartime wedding one spring afternoon in 1944, at the imposing Gothic-style Anglican church of St Andrew’s, where she walked down the aisle wearing her mother’s brusselslace veil.