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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.

FOR 5 HOURS Up to Their Necks in Smartness

WEDDING HELD UP FOR 5

Church Forgot Banns; Bride Goes Away Weeping

Vicar Apologises, Will

Pay Expenses

One of the strangest wedding hitches on record took place recently at St. Luke's, Woodside, neat Croydon, when--

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A bride who arrived at the church was told she could not be married because the authorities had forgotten the banns. She was taken home in tears by her mother.

The vicar, in great distress, got busy,

The bridegroom dashed away for a special licence, And the vicar, apologising for the error, married the pair

after a five-hours wait.

They were received with surprise, were married in St. Luke's and I was; and told that someone had forgotten christened and conarmed there, we the banns announcement,

There had been an error.

So the vicnr, the Rey, W. E. Brls- tow, telephoned to Westminster and arranged for a special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury to be given immediately.

The bridegroom left with the best man, his brother, Mr. Alfred Dry, for Westminster, collected The Heence, and dashed boekt.

On their return the wedding tool! place,

felt certain that everything was all } right.

"After wailing at the altar with all the guests the best man went to find the vicar. When he came back and salt the wedding could not take place thought he was Joking.

"And when I realised that he w in earnest, I felt the world had come tu pnd.

DREADFUL HOURS

"I don't know how I got through During the service, in a special those dreadful hours of waiting. address, the vicar apologised on Even when the service was being half of himself and the verger for belt! I thought something else might, the distress and inconvenience which suddenly stop our wedding," had been caused, and said that hej would bear, all the expenses of the wedding.

Afterwards the bride said:

"My fiance and I saw the ver- ger seven weeks ago and arrang- ed for the bangs to be published, We were both at work all the week and spent the last few Sundays getting our home ready. "We did not go to church to hear the banns.

The bridegroom sild:

"The vicar was very upset and did everything he could to make up for the delay. He has un- dertaken to pay the two guineas for the special leence and has refused any fees for the wedd- Ing."

Said the vicar: "Such a thing bus never happened before in 20 years and I am very distressed about it.

"Somehow. I did not get the names

"But as my midther and father for publication of their banns."

'Barked' on

Won

Radio,

Film Job

Despairing of finding the right voice for the English version of a continental film, a director flung himself into an armchair and switched on the radio.

UFS

Arab revolt against British control of Palestine under a League of Nations mandate continues despite stern military measures by the British to quell fierce riots that have occurred. Some of the sabotage laid to Arab terrorism is shown above, where a freight train on the main line from Pates- tine to Egypt was wreeked recently,

Guy

Fawkes Revellers Run Wild: Many Arrests

POLICE BATONS STOP "RESCUE" UNDERGRADUATES

BY

BOB AND BABA ARE TO PART

Hollywood.

Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gregory-he's the wrestler and she used to be called Princess Baba-have falled to win a throw with fortune in Hollywood

The rat-tat-tats of Guy Fawkes Night reverberated, society and now they are going to rather unpleasantly if more silently, in many police courts

part.

"But we haven't planned a divorce," recently.

Mr. Gregory said. "We love each | other."

Several arrests followed a too joyous commemoration

There was a sharp bark from the loudspeaker. It was Denis the Dachshund, a favourite character with thousands of children t who listen-in to the Toy Town productions in the Children's Hour. of the Guy.

The Allm director listened to Denis) Norman Shelley, who abandoned | for a few moments and knew he had the stage Ave years ago

The traditional celebration at Lewes (Sussex), in which found the voice he wanted.

to take up thousands of people took part, resulted in severe injury to broadcasting, said that he had to re- hearse seven weeks for his hour-and-young women, 33 cases of minor injuries and between 40 and 50 a half of

people being taken to the police station.

Tricheur,"

SEVEN WEEKS' TASK

"Top of my head

Oxford at Cambridge were each Saturday night, and thousands of the scene of carnival clamour. Eight, people flocked from all the surround- people were arrested at Oxford and ing districts to join the townspeople five undergraduates at Canalwridge.in the revels. It was a record crowd.

An expectant mother was burned

Six bonfires blazed high, 35 fancy-

Denis the Dachshund is Norman Shelley. The director was Mr. K. II.

g in "The Cheat." Frank, and the aim is "The Cheat," beillant English synchronised ver- took three days," he said. "But i synchronising only sion of Sacha Guitry's "Roman d'un had to study every action and ex- pression of Guitry's to be able to talk for him.

Director Frank's new method of synchronising is extra- So now in the English version of ordinary. It is done by phonetics, by an exploding firework at Oxford. dress torchlight processions added to the in the voice of Denks the and you would think that Guitry Dachshund speaks for Sacha Guitry. himself was talking English."

London Fire Brigade answered 250 the carnival spirit, aming tar bar- calls up till midnight, mostly rela were thrown into the water, small street Ares started by fireworks and nearly £1,000 worth of fireworks - record for Guy Fawkes night.

were discharged," The young woman injured When the five undergraduates were Lewis is

Miss Dorothy Hyres, of arrested at Cambridge the police had Belmont Farm, East Honthly, Sus to use their batons to resist an at- sex. A frework exploded in her tempt to free them. face, causing burns and an injury to the eye. She was taken to hospitali for treatment, but was not detained. The villagers of Hyde Heath, near Amersham (Bueks), organise Guy "BONFIRE BOYS" RIOT

Fawkes night in a big way, and let Nowhere probably in the country it be known that everyone was in were the celebrations marked by for a big surprise." wilder enthusiasm than in Lewes, The "surprise" was an attempt to where anti-Papery demonstrations burn the common, to clear the trees have been maintained for centuries and furze bushes

so that the site less than 100 years ago the could be developed as a sports area.. "Bonfire Boys" fought pitched bat But try as they would, the com-

les, so that once the Riot Act had to mon would not burn. The be read.

was too green and wet-and so for Shops and houses in the main the first time for many, many years street were closed and barricaded there was no Guy Fawkes In Hyde long before the usual closing hour on Heath.

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'Mr Deeds' Mobbed As

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And Mrs. Gregory quickly added: "We aro more in love than over."

So they are separating. Mrs. Gregory is coming to London, where she hopes to make a lot of money on the films,

Mr. Gregory will be left with two dogs, St. Bernard and a Dachshund,

Mr. Gregory complains that he and his wife have been snubbed by the Hollywood Bim colony. They are now facing privation as their Income vanishes,

just a little way from us," Mr. "Merle Oberon lives up the beach Gregory said, "but we haven't even

seun her.

Hollywood agrees that Mr. and Mrs. Gregory have not had a social success. Film stars snubbed them, refused in- traductions.

Mr. Gregory lost a wrestling match with the Japanese ju-jitsulst, Killa Shikuma.

As Mrs. Gregory packed, she said tearfully, "The way of true love is too tough for us just now."

Tennis Star Gets-

A Secret Wedding Party

Paris.

and M. Sarraut, French Minister of The Duke and Duchess of Windsor,

the Interior, were among the 200 quests who attended 10 "surprise wedding" reception given in Paris recently by Mr. R. A. Shayes, the English Davis Cup lawn tennis player.

The bride was formerly Miss Queenie Hargreaves, daughter of Dr. 1. Stanley Hargreaves, a well-known Paris dental surgeon.

Mr. and Mrs. Shayes were secretly

Film-star Gary Cooper and his Later Mr. and Mrs. Cooper attend-married last August, the reason being wife, formerly Miss Sandra Shaw, ed the Royal Command performance. that Mr. Shayes was due to go on a were mobbed by crowds of jostling, Kesticulating women when they arrived at Poddington recently on the boat train from Plymouth.

PREFERS "WESTERNS" When Mr. Cooper landed at Fly mouth from the Queen Mary he said

Hundreds of people waited on the t he has always wanted to make

platform for the star of "Mr. Deeds Comes to Town,"

WEDGED IN CROWD

For five minutes, despite the efforts

film in England.

lawn tennis tour, and to have have upset his plans. announced it,

It, he explained, would

met numerous other friends among

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

"So far my Hollywood contracts of the British Legion.

the guests, who included members have prevented me," he said, “but it

is possible that after my next film I may be able to work in England."

of station pollee, the actor and his He confessed that he prefers open- wife were wedged among the struggl-al parts and Western alms.

"They ing crowd.

have done much to popu- Women scrambled on to porters bring to smoky ellies a breath of

Jarise the cinema," he said.

They trucks, climbed on to stacks of fresh air." luggage.

They were able to see the actor

Although "Mr. Deeds" was his best himself for he towered above the flm financially, he considers his best heads of those around him-but all part was Wild Bill Hickok in "The they saw of his wife was a yellow Painsman," and his worst Marco

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"I dislike costume parts because few girls who had fought their way into the middle of the crowd, before I start I know how silly I shall thrust notebooks and pencils at Mr.

look." Cooper, screaming "Please, please."

NO PLANS

But it was impossible even for a Mr. Cooper, who last visited Eng- man of Mr. Cooper's stature to raise land in 1932, has made no plans for a hand to sign his autograph.

his holiday.

A posse of police managed to en-; "I may only be allowed to stay a circle the couple and, with their arms week, for I shall soon be recalled to forming a chain around them, hustled start on my next nim, another them away, pursued by hundreds of Western, to be called "The Last excited film fans.

Frontier," he said.

Painted the

Wrong House

Returning to h's bungalow, John James Stephens, of Belgrave-road. High Crumpsall found the rate and several windows had been scraped and freshly painted,

When he claimed £13 10s, dam- ages for trespass from Alfred Holmes, painter and decorator of Greenhill-road, Cheetham, at Man- chester County Court recently,

· Holmes explained he had sent his workmen to the wrong house by mistake.

Judge Leigh, declaring it was clear ther wis no intention of trespassing. 'anaensed the damago st 25 109.. wave the plaintif Judgment for that amount with costs

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