NOT FUNNY

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 90, 14 November 1939, Page 5

NOT FUNNY

. _ MARRIAGE TO PRACTICAL . JOKER WOMAN'S TALE OF MISFORTUNE (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, October 21. Mrs Denise Anne Marie Jose Winterbottom, who appeared for examination at the London Bankruptcy Court this week, in telling afterwards of her two unhappy marriages, said:— "My horoscope i^ays that I shall be married four times." Her grandfather Colonel Daly, left her £30,000 when She was seventeen. A year later she married

I Mr William Horace de Vere Cole, the world's greatest practical joker, who once dug up Piccadilly. They had a daughter, Valeric Cole, who is now twenty. j Mrs Winterbottom said: "My three great passions .are—astrology, Mercedes" Benz cars —I have had ten —tand clothes. I met Willie Cole on the platform of Athenry Station in Ireland. I was 18 and he was forty. I was swept off my feet, and we were married three months Later. I thought it would be fun to leave home. We went to Blarney Castle for the honeymoon. I ran off two days after the wedding. My husband came back to London and lived in Cheyne-walk, Chelsea. After a bit I joined him there and tried again. Being married to the practical joker was not so very funny. There were no jokes on me, and he was very badtempered. "However I never regret1 anything. It's all experience. The mar-

riage was dissolved. I set up home in Ireland with 14 servants. I did a certain amount of entertaining. I had my cars and my books and my horses but it was rather lonely. I came back to London. In 1933 I met my present husband, William Winterbottom. He is in South America now. He was 24, quite a bit younger than me, and a dapper wee man. We married quite soon at Marylebone Register Office. That time I went to Morocco for the honeymoon. The marriage soon became a series of reconciliations. It was not a, success."