MASKED BRIDEGROOM
REAL NAME KEPT A SECRET.
8.8.C. MYSTERY SINGER
(From The Guardian's Special Corres
pondent—By Air Mail)
LONDON, July 24
A bride started married life in London this week under an assumed name. Moreover, her husband was masked when she first met him, and was masked when she married him. The husband is the 8.8.C.'s "Mystery Singer," whose identity has been the puzzle of the London stage and the air for the last four years.
A tall figure wearing a long black coat, the mystery bridegroom insisted on being masked during his marriage to 26-year-old Louise Grieben, a German girl, at Kensington register office, and extraordinary precautions were taken to guard his identity, which the bridegroom had begged should not be revealed.
"I have my own reason for that," he said. "I met my wife two years ago. As I ran off the stage of a London cinema I bumped into her. That was the start of our courtship. She knows who I really am, but has agreed to live under an assumed name until I am able to reveal my real identity."
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVIII, Issue 67, 24 August 1937, Page 6
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184MASKED BRIDEGROOM Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LVIII, Issue 67, 24 August 1937, Page 6
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