MARIE NEY'S WEDDING

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 38, 13 August 1930, Page 17

MARIE NEY'S WEDDING

SKILFUL EVASION- OF

PUBLICITY

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 11th July. Miss Marie Ney, the well-known and very successful New Zealand actress, lias been married in London. The ceremony took place on 13th June. It. is remarkable that a lady literally so much in the limelight, so popular with .1 vast thcatregoing pubic, and having such hosts of friends, could arrange to be married without anyone in London knowing. And no one even yet knows, so quietly was everything thought out and carried out.

The marriage notice would read something like this: —Menzics—Fix.—At the Church of St. Ethelreda, Ely place, London, on 18th June, Thomas Hutchison Menzics, of Kuala Lumpur, to Marie Agnes Fix, daughter of the late William Fix, of Wellington, New Zealand, and of Mrs. Fix, Wellington,

Mr. Menzies has long known Miss Ney and, her mother, whom he has met on his intervals of leave from the Malay States, and Miss Ney has been the guest moro than once of his people in Scotland. Very cleverly they conceived and completed , their plan,.having no desire i'or publicity at ; all. They were married by Father-. Bernard .Roc, at the beautiful old Church of St. Etholrcda, situated in a quiet by-vr;iy in busy London, near Holborn Circus. They were accompanied by a friend, Mr. Jacomb, as witness. Immediately after the cerejmony there was just timo for "liffcn," 'and tlio bride went on to Drury Lnno

to play her lead as "Milady" in "The Musketeers." In the evening she appeared again, and she has been carrying ou there as usual ever since-, with the secret still her own.

Mr. Menzies has spent a. great number of years in Malaya in connection with rubber plantations. He is an authority on the subject, and is at present what is known as a'visiting agent. Mis period of leave will expire in October and he will go East again. But Mrs. Menzics will not, according to present plans, accompany him on this occasion. She is tremendously wrapped up in her professional work, and sho is one whom the stage can ill spare. Mr. and Mrs. Menzies hope to. have a month or six weeks' holiday in Scotland, at the conclusion of. the 'present Drury Lane season. And then, New Zealand's very successful actress will have no further object in keeping her secret, for she will be out of reach of tinkling telophones, and of people desirous to pick up "stories" for the newspapers ofthe Metropolis. 1n'1926 Mr. Menzies won the Singapore Gold Cup with a horse named after Marie Ney.