It was just the sort of event which The Sydney Morning Herald's women's pages might have reported back in the thirties: a champagne book launch, with a host of identities in attendance, and the upmarket setting of Elizabeth Bay House in Potts Point.Certai

It was just the sort of event which The Sydney Morning Herald's women's pages might have reported back in the thirties: a champagne book launch, with a host of identities in attendance, and the upmarket setting of Elizabeth Bay House in Potts Point.Certainly Betty Mudge, 77, remembers covering scores of events there when Elizabeth Bay House was a setting for wedding reception - and wedding receptions were a staple of the female reporter's job.Betty Mudge's boss in the 1930s was Connie Sweetheart Robertson, social editor of this newspaper for nearly 30 years from 1936, and for decades the arbiter of Sydney's social world. May 16, 1990. (Photo by Andrew Taylor/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).