MISS MERCEDES GLEITZE.
MARRIAGE AT DOVER
(Photograph in This Issue.)
Miss Mercedes Gleitze, who swam the Channel in October. 1927. and who, it is reported, is intending to make a second attempt to swim Cook Strait, was married on August 9, at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, Dover, to Mr Patrick Carey, a young Dublin engineer. The bride was given away by Captain Tennyson Scott, of Dublin; he was also best man. The bridesmaids were the Zitenfield twins. Bernice and Phyllis, who are training to swim the Channel. They were dressed in frocks of sea-green voile, and wore no stockings. After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom caught the steamer for Calais, en route to Constantinople. The former intends to try to swim the Hellespont. On her return to Dover in September she hopes to swim from France to Dover and to win the Dover Town Gold Cup. It is stated that owing to Mrs Carey's many swimming contracts the honeymoon will not be spent until next March. Then she and her husband will make a trip into the Sahara Desert.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 79
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181MISS MERCEDES GLEITZE. Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 79
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