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WEDDING GALA FOR A DUKE Arundel Plans Public Presentation
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Town's Rejoicings
at Engagement
By F. G. PRINCE-WHITE
ARUNDEL, Sussex, Dec. 18. RUNDEL folk are gazing with a new interest at the grey towers of the Duke of Norfolk's castle here; already they are picturing the scene of jubilation when the young Hereditary Earl Marshal of England and Chief Butler to the King brings home his bride-to-be, the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, aged 20, Lord Belper's only daughter,
All of them are delighted by the announcement of the engage- ment. It was unexpected news, for not even officials who most enjoy the duke's confidence had an inkling of it before he tele- phoned to his agent, Capt. Mostyn, here yesterday and directed him to inform the mayor and deputy-mayor.
"We received a confidential note in which the duke expressed his wish that we should know of his engagement before it was made public," the mayor, Councillor Arthur Greaves, told me to-day.
"Nothing coull make the town happier than to see him happily married."
A TOWN BANQUET
Vittorio, Mussolini's eldest son, has received his father's permission to go into films. After completing studies at Hollywood, he will enter a position in the Italiani film administration.
The duke, who is 28, was. Mayor of Arundel for the past Rats Ended A
municipal year. He made no mention at the traditional dinner given here to him on November 9 of his intention to marry.
Councillor Greaves was mayor in 1929, when Arundel cdc. brated the duke's coming-of-age. Now it will fall to him again to lead the town in rejoicing on the duke's wedding day.
"I have told the duke, in a letter of congratulation from the town, that we shall give a great welcome to his bride," he said
to me.
Preparations for the home-coming were tentatively discussed at a meeting here tonight of the committee presided over by the mayor which is organising the local Coronation celebrations. WEDDING GIFT FUND
The town will be hung with flags and bunting, as it was at the duke's coming-of-age, and it is thought that there will be a great banquet in the ancient Barons' Hall at Arundel Castle, in whose lefty windows the doke's ancestors and atirring scenes in his family's history aro portrayed,
No intimation has yet been received of the date of the wed- ding. The general opinion is that it will be at Westminster Cathedral.
I understand that there will be, a'i public subscription for a wedding presentation. To mark his coming- of-age Arundel gave the duke o gold;
was pre- cigarette casket, which sented to him in the town square. is hoped that it may be possible to present the town's wedding gift in similarly public manner.
"Snowed Under"
The Duke of Norfolk spent the day in London yesterday, attend- { ing to important, details of his Coronation work as Earl Marshal. During the afternoon Miss Strutt travelled from the country to be with him.
"They have been snowed under with messages of good will," said the duke's secretary to a London re- porter inst night.
Miss Strutt had been staying with her mother, the former Lady Belper, now the Countess of Rosebery, at Menumore, Leighton Buzzard.
She has for some time been a close friend of the duke's sisters, Lady Katherine, Lady Winifride, and Lady Rachel Howard.
A public engagement at which the duke may appear with his fiancee will be to-morrow's charity concert at Norfolk House in aid of the Invalid Children's Ald Associa- tion.
His mother, the Buchess of Nor- folk,
will be the hostess, and she's giving a private dinner party be- forehand.
The probability of Miss Strutt's embracing the Roman Catholic faith, to which the duke's family has for centuries been attached, will be dis- cussed by both families in the im- mediato future.
If she decides to do so the will be required to take "Instruction" lasting some weeks before receiving baptism, making her first confessión, receiving her first Holy Communion, and being confirmed in the Faith.
A New Prayer Book
Liverpool, Dec. 15.
is
A campaign within the Church of England to obtain a revised Prayer Book will be launched at a public meeting in Liverpool on Wednesday by Dr. Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, Sir
Thomas Inski Dwelly.
nd the Dean of Liverpool, Dr. F.
The National Church "League directing the campaign, and Liver- pool has been chosen as the jumping- off ground because of the prominent part, played by the elty in the con- troversy nihe years
which ended in the House of Commona rejecting the first version of a revised Prayer Book,
Leaders of the new campaign aim at a modernised and simplified ver- sion of the Prayer Book, omitting one of two controversial portions.
Canon A. G. Bernard, of Anfield. chairman of the Liverpool Truth and Faith Committee, sald -to-night that their object was to enrich the Pray
We are very frenk
Tel 56981. nowadays, most people will admit that there are passages that are crude and distasteful--parts of the marri nge service, for fastance. It might be decided to take out the word Tobey."
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Coronation Will Be Televised
By A Radio Correspondent
All difculties in the way of tèle- vising and broadcasting the Corona. tion have now been overcome, and I understand that the B.B.C. is shortly to issue to the radio authorities of ' the world an Invitation to relay the broadcast free of charge.
It will be the biggest broadenst ever made. Scores of microphones are to be used along the routes and In Westminster Abbey.
Television presents a special prob-. lem, but this is likely to be solved by the use of a £20,000 van, which is being built for the occasion.
WILL IT BE FILMEDT
The decision about a film of the
will be made Coronation
by the Coronation Committee of the Privy Council, of which Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald, Lord President, is the chair-
man,
Some announcement on the whole position is expected fairly soon, in view of the technical difficulties to be overcome if permission is granted to
im the ceremony.
race, but Whitnall said that such a sudden extinction of one race by another has never been
Hamilton, N.Y., Dec. 19. Diseased rats and not a super-accomplished. or race of men exterminated the Neanderthal cave-dwellers, Prof. Harold O. Whitnall, head of the department of geology at Colgate University, said to-day.
Whitnall said he believed lemmings, short-inlied rats, carried a discase which killed off the Neanderthals.
"These lemmings were afflicted with a discase similar to the bubonic plague which Idilled 40,000,000 Students of pre-historie times people in Europe during the middle generally have agreed that the ages," he said. "Flens left the dead or dying rats, bit the Neanderthals, Neanderthals were exterminated gave them the plague and the entire by the Cro-magnons, a superior race was destroyed, United Press.
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