GRETNA GREEN BRIDE

Evening Star, Issue 20375, 6 January 1930, Page 1

GRETNA GREEN BRIDE

"MOT WONDERFULLY HAPPY" ‘wife WHO CANNOT COOK The course' of true love is not running too smoothly for Mr and Mrs Eric H. Nurthen, the young stage lovers who, were recently married at Gretna Green, It is not because they are not wonderfully happy; they are. The trouble is that Mrs Nurthern, better known as Bubbles Dclainey, simply cannot cook. A correspondent of the ‘Sunday Nbws ’ found the newly-wedded couple lunching at a “snack bar” somewhere in the West End. They eat out because Bubbles is not 1 able to get breakfast ready before lunch time. “ The other day,” said the seventeon-year-old husband, a littlo sadly, “ Bubbles took exactly an hour and forty minutes to prepare breakfast. As wo intend shortly to go on tour in variety, I am wondering whether she will over be ready in time to plav matinees. “What did you have for breakfast?” the writer asked.

“Well,” said Bubbles, laughingly, “when eventually I did manage it the result was a quite a tempting dish of eggs, tomatoes, and bacon. Anyway, I did my best. And how would you like to cook a breakfast in a fur coat? You sec,” she explained “ our dressing gowns arc at Thorpe Bay, where we intend to make our permanent home. For the time being wo are living at New Barnet, and I cook on a gas-fire ring. “ Married life is certainly a change from the stage,” Mrs 'Nurthern continued. “ 1 iiavo never been accustomed to do anything for myself, and wo cannot get any domestic advice from our families because they have not forgiven us yet. “Anyway, everything will be all right in the end. We are arranging a music hall tour in the nrovinces, after which I hope to return to musical comedy; Our variety act will consist principally of comedy dialogue.” Miss Delainey,_ who is 27, has played principal parts in leading productions of ‘lrene,’ ‘Betty,’ ‘Oh, Joy,’ and ‘The Lady of the Bose.’ “People aro saying that I kidnapped Eric,” she said. ‘Now, does he i look as if he would allow himself to be kidnapped?” Eric laughed, took n bite from his sandwich, and rotored; ‘ ‘ She’ssome kidnapper 1”