FREAK WEDDINGS

Evening Star, Issue 23749, 3 December 1940, Page 8

FREAK WEDDINGS

“ RINGING THE CHANGES " WITH HUSBANDS A young couple in the United States have arranged to be married while hanging from parachutes suspended above the ground, states a London paper. The idea is not so new. An Egyptian couple got married in an aeroplane piloted by Miss Lutlia el Nadi, a well-known Cairo airwoman. In a divorce action brought by Mrs Eda K. Marce'lle she declared that she went to consult a hypnotist about her insomnia, and awoke 10 days later to find herself the bride of the hypnotist, •By her own account, at any rate, she was married in a trance. Toronto recently had one of the cheapest weddings on record. The parson was paid with a “dud” cheque, the wedding celebrations were paid by a cheque supposed to have been given to the bridegroom as a present from his employer, and the bride’s wedding dress was also “paid” for with a worthless cheque. The happy couple then disappeared. The strangest bride is surely Mrs Harvey, or Mme Emilienue Buckley, who kept “ringing the changes” between two husbands. In 1903 she married Ernest Harvey in Sunderland. Two years later she divorced him and married a man called Buckley in Boulogne. After three year with (Buckley she divorced him and married her first husband, Harvey, in Paris! This baek-nnd-fro process continued with the passing years until “Mme Buckley ” had been married nine times, but only to the same tw r o husbands. But when, in 1938, she asked Judge Bailly in Paris for a further divorce, this mender of broken marriages told her that it was time she made up her mind! She and abandoned the tenth divorce application.