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SCHOOLDAY LOVERS 60 YEARS, WED

Now Bill, 69, Brings Fanny

Her Morning Tea

HOVE.

There is no age limit to happiness. You notice that when you meet Hove's oldest bride and bride- groom, Fanny, aged seventy-three, and Bill, aged sixty-nine, now Mr. and Mrs. William Soughton. With their children and fore they parled that evening they

mude a date for the next night. grandchildren assembled to bless them, Fanny and Bill were married recently at the Register Office, Hove. she

Huge New Swimming Stadium

A C135.000 mwimming stadium is Sitting in front of their own fire-to be built opposite the Prince's place Bill said, "Think, if she hadn't Theatre on the site of the old felborn

have recognised me I would never been able to hold her to that promise baths, which are now being demolish-

"Yee all those years ago.

when we were both young- Afterwards the two families gather-stern I naked her to marry me.

1

She ed at Bill's six-room cottage for used to

το κα about with my sister. wedding cake and part wine. Fanny Somehow or other we parted, but we has five daughters, two sons, seven are together again now and it is u

d seven grandchildren

great-

Ane thing." grandchildren, but she buzzes about

On their first day of married life her new home as gnily as a bride of Dill got up at six o'clock, brought his

twenty,

She

bride her morning ten.

'PARTED SOMEHOW'

SECRET COURTSHIP

She Five weeks ago Fanny, who was

Fanny looks after him too. Mrs. Graimes, Widow,

sat beside Ands his slippers, holds his cout, reads Dill, widower, in a love hotel. thought she remembered his face,ne print for him because her eyes are better than his now, smiles when She asked his name.

ever she looks at him.

"We had a secret courtship," she It was

of schoolday sweethearts after sixty years. Be-kald, "and it was lovely. We didn't tell the children anything about it, but after that first night when we met we saw each other every single

it rounlon

MEGAN TAYLOR evening.

REFUSES £10,000

Megan Taylor, the 18-year-old Manchester girl who won the

"I have been working in the day- time for a friend of mine and Bill came along each night to meet me after work. Just like he did when we went to school sixty years ago. "I was lonely in my house over in

world amateur figure skating Brighton and Bill was lonely here. lastThere never was a thing to do after championship for women year, denies that she thinks of tea. turning professional.

offered

"I am only Just 18 and 1 want to

she said. " remain on amateur," had some Alim tests at Denham

bl Studios, and I was contract to go to Hollywood, but want to defend my world title and also to enter for the British cham- pionship at Wembley in December.

"I will also enter for the European title at Earl's Court in January.

will enjoy cooking for Bill: J an a good cook and he has a grandi appetite. I've brought my lodger He and Bill can sit along here too. together when I'm busy."

ed.

When complete in the summer of 1940 it will contain two pools-the lurger 105ft, by 4ft., the smaller Burt. by 30ft.

Holborn Council, which is financing the new stadium, hopes to stage international competitions and galas In the larger pool, which will be known as the Swimatad.

The diving end of the pool will bo 1616, deep.

"The scheme may sound costly, but so many swimming clubs hold func- tions at the Holborn baths that we do not expect the new baths to take our rates," a much money out of council member said.

The larger pool will be filled with underwater lighting.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938.

MEET AFTER Up to Their Necks in Smartness

UFS

Personal attention to the wounded in Chinese hospitals is part of the manifold duties accepted by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese Generalissimo. Here, right, she inspects surgical instruments received as a gift from Czechoslovakia.

MOLLISON

"I CAN'T

'PHONES 66 TO SAY:

GET MARRIED TO-DAY

Edith Gee

Friends of the couple who had gone to Caxton Hall were mystifled by the sudden cancellation.

Mollison spent the afternoon in his Eat in Berkeley-street, Mayfair, with Now that they are married Bill

Five minutes before Jim Mol-the woman who should have been calls Fanny Mate. She loves it.

of his bride. "We'll never have any trouble," she lison, airman ex-husband

our Amy Johnson, was due to marry says. "We'll live together on pensions here and be happy and com- wealthy plantation owner Mrs. fortable. I know we will be satisfied Phyllis Hussey, recently, he with each other. Bill was kind and

"DOMESTIC REASONS"

Loter Molikon said: "There is nothing unusual about the cancella-

"My big ambition is to win the nice when he was young, and he stij telephoned Caxton Hall register ton of my wedding plans.

There will not be a cross word, office, Westminster, postponing

the wedding.

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"Phyllis and I found that for domestic reasons I was not con- venient for us to marry to-day."

Asked when he was going 10 marry Mrs. Hussey, Mollison

smiled and sald: "Sure time In the future." He would not give a date.

"We cunnot understand why the cancellation of our wedding should cause such a fuss," he added.

"The reason

is a purely private one, and there in no cause for any rumour or speculation in connection with the postponement,"

CROWD WAIT IN VAIN

Mr. Atollison's telephone message cancelling the wedding arrangements was received about two hours after he had made a definite appointment to be married at four o'clock.

It was impossible, he sald. to get along, and the ceremony must be i put off for a few days only.

A large crowd had gathered out- Some hod side the register office. been walling since the office had opened at eight o'clock.

The chief registrar, Mr. Bond, said: "We do not know when the wedding will take place, but it has definitely been cancelled for to-day.

"Notice of the marriage was first given three weeks ago, when it was Intended to take place by licence." WHIRLWIND COURTSHIP

Mrs. Hussey, former wife of Cap- tain Hussey, owns plantations in the West Indies, and is one of America's wealthiest society women.

Mollison proposed to her after a whirlwint two-week courtship. His marriage in 1932 to Bliss Amy Johnson was dissolved last August.

Film Beauty Was

Bored, Fell From 16th Floor

New York.

Just after dawn recently, beautiful film actress Dorothy Hale scribbled a note, "Will not need you to-day," to the maid who called every day at her sixteenth-floor suite in Hampshire House, fashion- able New York hotel. A few seconds later Dorothy crashed to her death on the pavement 200 feet be- low.

Startled people who rushed to Mr. Gardner Hole, belillant young the huddled form noticed there American painter, who was killed in was still a smile on the face; the 1031 when his car plunged over a

preciplee in California. black hair, in the latest fashion, was not disarranged.

After living in seclusion for some time Dorothy played in Broadway And later went to With her black velvet even-productions,

Hollywood. ing gown she wore silver Ban- around dals with high heels;

black ribbon her neck was a from which hung a gold Floren- tine pendant.

The note to her maid is the only clace to the tragedy of the woman had played opposite Ronald who Colman in "Cynara," had been twice married, and, at thirty-three, was a talented painter and sculptor, an ex- cellent linguist.

Her friends believe she "utterly bored." The polleo record remls: "Fell or jumped-probably suicide."

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Miss Hole, who some tline ngo Was reported an engaged to Mr. Harry L. Hopkins, U.S. States Works Progress Administrator, was former- ly Miss Dorothy Donovan, of Pitts- Gurg.

Her first husband was Mr. T. Gaillard Thomas, with whom she

A maintained a salon in Paris, divorce followed, and she married

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