INVITED 1,300 TO WEDDING

Evening Star, Issue 20863, 5 August 1931, Page 7

INVITED 1,300 TO WEDDING

BUT FORGOT HIS LICENSE GREENWICH, Conn., July 21. The Iveight of absent-mindedness was attained by Mr Charles A. Moore, jun., a Connecticut industrialist, when ho invited 1,300 guests to his elaborate wedding hero on Sunday and then forgot to got tho necessary marriage license in time for the event. His bride-to-be, Miss Rhea Logan Munroo (18), daughter of Mr Charles A. Munroe, a wealthy public utilities director of this city and Chicago, uninformed as yet of the serio-comic situation, may bo left waiting at tho cliurch until Wednesday, it appeared to-night. That is tho earliest, under tho Con nocticut live-day law, that tho cere mouy can take place. Mr Moore nev thought about that until Friday afternoon, when his attention was called t. it by a reporter. Ho then rushed to tho town clerk, Nora Murphy, to sec what could bo done. She said sue could not do anything better for him than give him a license for Wednesday, unless ho could get a probate judge to waive the requirement of tho five-day notice.

Mr Moore raced in his car to tho office of Judge William Bungee, but that public official informed the distracted groom-to-bc that his excuse of forgetful ness was insufficient to warrant a waiver of tho requirement. Judge Bungee said ho was only permitted to waive the statute ‘‘ if it .would help tho public good.”