1938-12-08 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER

1938.

Library, Supreme Court

WEDDING HELD UP FOR 5 HOURS Up to Their Necks in Smartness

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, near Croydon, when-

A bride who arrived at the church

was told sho 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 w.4s and told that someone had forgotten christened and confirmed there, we the banns announcement.

There had been an error.

felt cerlain that everything was all right.

So the vicar, the Rev. W. E. Bris- "After waiting at the altar with low, telephoned to Westminster and arranged

ged for a special licence from the Archbishop of Canterbury to be stiven immediately.

all the guests the best man went to find the vicar. When he came back and said the wedding could not take place I thought he was joking.

"And when I realised that he was:

The bridegroom left with the best man, his brother, Mr. Alfred Dry, in corncat, felt the world had come for Westminster, collected the to an end. lleence, and dashed back.

On their return the wedding took pince.

DREADFUL HOURS

" don't know how I got through During the service, in a special those dreadful hours of waiting. address, the virar apologised on be- Even when the service was being helf of himself and the verger for held thought samething else might the distress and inconvenience which suddenly stop our wedding." had been caused, and said that he The bridegroom said: would bear all the expenses of the wedding.

Afterwards the bride suid:

"My flance and I saw the ver ger seven weeks ago and arrang- ed for the baims 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 banna.

"The vicar was very upset and dld everything he could to make up for the delay. He has un- dertaken to pay the two gulncas for the special licence and A9 refused any fees for the wedd- Ing."

Said the vicar: "Such a thing hos never happened before in 20 years: and I am very distressed about it. "Somehow, I did not get the names

"But as my andther and father for publication of their banns,"

'Barked' on

Won Film

Radio,

Job

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

There was a sharp bark from the loudspeaker. It was Denis the Dachshund, a favourite character with thousands of children who listen-in to the Toy Town productions in the Children's Hour. The film director listened to Denis Norman Shelley, who abandoned for a few moments and knew he had the stage five years ago to take up found the volce he wanted,

broadcasting, sold that he had to re- Denis the Dachshund is Norman hearse seven weeks for his hour-and- Shelley. The director was Mr. K. K. ja half of talking in "The Cheat.”

"The Frank, and the film is "The Cheat,"

actual synchronising only brillant English synchronised ver-tool three days," he said. "But I sion of Sacha Gultry's "Roman d'un had to study every action and ex- Tricheur."

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, the film the volee of Denia the and you would think that Guitry Dachshund speaks for Sacha Guitry, Dhimself was talking English.”

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Arab revolt against British control of Palestine under a League of Nations mandate continues despite stern military measures by the British to quell ferce rints that have occurred. Some of the sabotage laid to Arab terrorism is shown above, where a freight train on the man Bne from Palcs- tine to Egypt was wrecked recently.

Guy

Fawkes Revellers Run Wild: Many Arrests POLICE BATONS STOP "RESCUE" BY UNDERGRADUATES

BOB AND BABA ARE TO PART

Hollywood.

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

part.

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 recently.

Several arrests followed a too joyous commemoration| of the Guy.

The traditional celebration at Lewes (Sussex), in which thousands of people took part, resulted in severe injury to a young woman, 33 cases of minor injuries and between 40 and 50 people being taken to the police station.

thrown into the

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"But we haven't planned a divorce," Mr. Gregory said, "We love cach other."

And Mrs. Gregory quickly

added:

than over."

Wo

pro more in love

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

the aims.

Mr. Gregory will be left with two dogs, a St. Bernard and a Dachshund. Mr. Gregory complains that ho and his wife have been snubbed the Hollywood fim colony. They are now facing privation as their incamo vanishes. "Merle Oberon lives up the beach

by

water,; seen her.

Oxford and 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 Cambridge, in the revels. It was a record crowd. Six bonfires blazed high, 35 fancy- An expectant mother was burned by an exploding Brework at Oxford. dress torchlight processions added to just a little way from us." Mr. London Fire Brigade answered 250 the carnival spirit, flaming tar bar-Gregory said, "but we haven't even calls

to rels were op til midnight, mostly small street fires storted by fireworks and nearly £1,000 worth of fireworks

were discharged. -a record for Guy Fawkes' night.

The young woman injured at Lewis is Miss Dorothy Hyres, of Belmont Furm, East Honthly, Sus- sex. A Brework exploded in her face, causing burns and an injury to the eye. She was taken to hospitali for treatment, but was not detained.

"BONFIRE BOYS" RIOT

When the five undergraduates were arrested at Cambridge the palice had to use their batons to resist an at-

tmpt to fiee them,

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

Mr. Gregory lost a wrestling match with the Japanese Jiu-jitsuist, Kilk Shikuma.

COMMON WOULDN'T BURN.

As Mrs. Gregory picked, she said The villagers of Hyde Heath, near tearfully, "The way of true love is Amersham (Bucks), organise Guy too tough for us Just now. 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."

to

com-

wilder enthusiasm than in Lewes,] The "surprise" was an altempt where anti-Popery demonstrations burn the common, to clear the trees have been maintained for centuries and furze bushes so that the site and less than 100 years ago the could be developed as a sports area. "Bonfire Boys" fought pitched bat- But try as they would, the tles, so that once the Riot Act had to moon would not burn. The

Krowth 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.

'Mr Deeds' Mobbed As

He Comes To Town

On

www.

Tennis Star Gets--

A Secret Wedding Party

Paris,

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and M. Sarraut, French Minister of the Interior, were among the 200 Kuests who attended a "surprise wedding" reception given in Paris recently by Mr. R. A. Shayes, the English Davis

tennis Cup lawn

formerly Miss Queente Hargreaves, daughter of Dr.

player.

H.

The

bride.

was

Stanley Hargreaves, a well-known Paris dental surgeon.

Mr. and Mrs. Shayes were secretly

lawn

tennis tour, And to have announced it, he explained, would have upset his plans.

Film-star Gary Cooper and his Later Mr. and Mrs. Cooper attend-married last August, the reason being wife, formerly Miss Sandra Shaw, jed the Royal Command performance. that Mr. Shayes was due to go on a were mobbed by 'crowds of jostling, gesticulating Wom.cn when they jarrived at Paddington recently

the boat train from Plymouth.

Hundreds of people walted on the platform for the star of "Mr. Deeda Comes to Town."

WEDGED IN CROWD

For five minutes, despite the efforts of stallon polles, the actor and his wife were wedged among the struggl- ing crowd.

Women scrambled on to porters

trucks, climbed on Juggage.

hat.

to stacks

PREFERS "WESTERNS" When Mr. Cooper landed at Ply mouth from the Queen Mary he sald that he has always wanted to make a film in England.

met numerous other friends among The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

the guests, who included 'members "So far my Hollywood contracts of the British Legion. have prevented me," he said, "but it Is possible that after my next Alm 1| may be able to work in England."

He confessed that he prefers open- air parts and Western Alms,

"They have done much to popu- "They larise the cinema," he said. [bring to smoky cities n breath of

fresh air."

Although "Mr. Deeds" was his best They were able to see the actor himself for he lowered above the film financially, he considers his best hoads of those around him but all part was Wild Bill Hickok in "The they saw of his wife was a yellow pinsman," and his worst Marco

Poto.

"I dislike costume parts because A few girls who had fought their before I start I know how silly I shall way into the middle of the crowd, look." thrust notebooks and pencils at Mr. Cooper, screaming "Please, please." But it was imposable even for a

NO PLANS

Mr. Cooper, who last visited Eng-

rann of Mr. Cooper's stature to raise land in 1832, has made no plans for a hand to sign its autograph.

his holiday.

A posse of polles 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 film, another them away, pursued by hundreds of Western, to be called "The Lasl

Frontier," he said. excited film fans.

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Wrong House

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

When he claimed £13 19s, dam- NICE for trespass from Alfred Holines, painter and decorator of Greenhill-road, Cheetham, at Man- chenter County Court recently, Holmes explained he had sent his workmen to the wrong house by mislake,

Judge Leigh, declaring it was clear there was no intention of trespassing, næesssed the damage at 25 10%, and gave the plaintif Judgment for that amount with costs.

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