UNABLE TO STOP WEDDING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22267, 21 May 1934, Page 14

UNABLE TO STOP WEDDING

ATLANTIC OCEAN'S EFFORT BIG LIXEB/S "BATTERED BRIDE" ." The battered bride of the Berengaria "; is. the nickname the liner's company invented for Miss Margot Grahame, the English film and stage actress, who arrived at Southampton recently with her husband, Mr Frank Lister, the actor. Miss Grahame had just completed the round trip to New York and back in the Berengaria. She went over to marry Mr Lister, and the Atlantic did its brst to prevent the ceremony. It buffeted the great steamship and threw Miss Grahame all over the saloon, bruised her, and sprained her ankle. . .",The.'weather got worse and worse/' MisV Grahame. said, " and then all of a sudden the whole floor went up and we were thrown all over the place. A man tried to rescue .me. but he burned me severely with a cigarette which he squeezed • against my arm without noticing-it. Eventually we saved ourselves by turning a table upside clown, sitting in it, and clinging to the legs. *' It was a terrible rush to get married. The storm delayed tbe Berengaria 24 bours. We had to scout rouud the Bowery to buv a wedding ring, and in the morning the judge was so late that we almost' Tost the ship." But Miss Grahame looked anything lut battered as she talked. She was a scintillation in scarlet; scarlet beret, lips, muffler, and nails. Her pale blonde hair was just a few shades lighter than the beige of her costume. " Coming back, the sea was like a mill-pond," she ■aid. ' .- ' ■