Secretly Married.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 16, 31 December 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

Secretly Married.

JAY GOI'LD WEDDED TO LONDON GIRL. ROMANCE BEGI N AT HISTORIC ABBtHSFORD. From Scotland, the land of romantic marnag.-s. comes tidings that Mr. Frank Jay Gould, the American inilliunaire. hat: Iwer- married to a beautiful young London actress, named Edie Kellv a namesake, curiously enough of in's first '.rife, who divorced '• ini. Tin- new bride, like many anoth*.1 ’ bride who has passed of late years from the stage to a splendid home, played uitli Mr. Seymour Hicks cud ids', at the Gaiety. The romance had a delightful setting, for the pair retiirnod from the office where, in

s*‘ v.-r-’y plain Scotridi fashion, they ■■■'t made man an ! wife to grey old Abbot Word, once the home, as till the world kir.ws, of Sr Walt, r Seatt. th 1 home in which h. wrote hi' matchless W..v-- iey novels. Just over three weeks rgo. Mr. Gould arrived at the historical pile oil, it w:is und“|-.<ood. a -ire weeks' stay for shooting and fishing. There ) was a surd! parry -nothing wore than 1 an ordinary hans' 1 party -and it was j < irsdfud by the old retainers at Ai- > ’ t-fe’d that the millionaire and his fiirnL v . fulfilling a wish to live | in the great novelist’s lum.e, and enjoy an autumn ho’iday amidst the -ceo.s <iotf- had made so familiar. In the party was a iiv'ty young girl of 20, :• London lady. Mis? Kelly, who was ch ire ■•nod by her mother—soon •o G M> Gould’s nw.thor-in-law. Ab’rfsf nd had been taken for six weeks, hat mmedi itelv the nec-ss-'ry rrs’der c 1 in Scotland—that is to sav. 21 days—i'll- l>< on fu’filied for a SeoftLh civil r 1 mii iio the Au: t'<->•’< emitted Abj 1 nf.;..r,1. lb. s*i artv left Melrose, and | r<-inibird in the Caledonian Station i TI ••e' l‘M nhurgh. for a couple r.f days. I Then, all being ready for the great j I -usings? th->t h>d taken them to th? S’ot’ish capital. Mr. Gould and pretty Miss Kelly became man and wife.

THE PROCEDURE WAS SIMPLICITY ITSELF.

| The Sheriff had to ho satisfied that j the requirements <f the law had been ccmpl el with as to the term of residence. Then a declaration was made brf- r? tao witnesses by the happy couple, and they were registered as partners for life. Tire ceremony of the declaration took place in the Sheriff’s room and occupied only a few minutes. Tie- cost of the ceremony to the bridegio- m was probably less then half a sovereign, .-o that the c >uple at least made an economical start. Even the luxury of motor-cars was dispensed with. four-wheeled cabs conveying the patty to the Sheriff's office. The form I of the wedding ceremony, if not as • brief as that of the old blacksmith’s ■ at Gretna Green, is informality irseif, i and this form of wedding in Scotland i pr“tty much supplants the old romantic wedding at the B rder town. So fur

"he secret was k- pt admirablv. But i it e •"! I nut b* a se: r„ t for long, bej cause the registry of marriages, which I is open to the world, contains the announcement. -:i ? the date Oct. l',’. i’ ll), as follows : — I f.on.n KELLY. SCOT., ST. j GILES', MARR.” 1 '*<■'•; t, it should le explained. is the came < 1’ the Law agent, and St. Giles’ 1 the district in which the declaration is 1 said to have been made. After the in.ll • i.i_e th-’ pair took breakfast at the i;>n Hotel and then returned to , Abbotsford, but the si.enc or the honey- ; racon was -o<>n tra n-ferred t<> London in n>:i*c for the smith of France.

' Guttenberg” and "Havana.” She is disci ibed as a charming woman, pretty J mid petite, uith dark hair. When Miss | Gertie Millar went to America Miss i Kelly went too. and appeared at the j Knickerbocker Theatre in “The Girls of j Gottenberg. " Later she was at the [ Casino Theatre as one of the English i girls in ••Havana.” It was while I playing at th? Casino that she first j met Mr. Gould. In consequence of illI hcalih, from which. she has now re- | covered, Mrs. Gould has not been on I the stage for nearly a year, that is to I say during the great-r period of her I engagement to her millionaire husband. ■ While connected with the 1 American ■ s'a-go she wore so many beautiful diamonds that playgoers in Neu York I cnlkd her the “little flash <.f light-

ning.” Vivacious and uncommonly pretty girls, with large brown eyes and wavy chestnut hair. Airs. Gould and her sister are of Irish parentage, and are the onh mend er.; of their family connected with the stage. Ihe bride has both a sister and a brother appearing at the Shaftesbury Theatre in ’ The Arcadians.” Her sister, Miss Hetty Kellv. is one of the “Arcadians,” and understudies a small part, in which she has appeared s ral times. Her br<.ther unde?studies “Bobby,” and has played that part with ‘''Hie Arcadians” on tour.