JAZZ AT WEDDING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 829, 25 November 1929, Page 14

JAZZ AT WEDDING

girl gives bride away CIRCUS MARRIAGE Stage stars, chorus girls, clowns midgets, and other artists formed part Sl* ° ro »? of 5 - 000 which gathered lot a -wedding at St. Stephen’s Church on the cliffs at Blackpool, England, recently Miss Barbara Cuthbertsou, of Hazeihurst, Btspham Road, Blackpool, was married to the vicar, the Rev. F th'„ I 6! who is a chaplain of the Actors s Church Union. Mr W. McAllister, who is “Clown Doodles” of the Tower Circus, BlackWas groomsman, and a troupe of eight pretty Tiller dancing girls, in ‘ ■D er-green satin and beige net. were maids of honour.

The bride, who is half the age of (he bridegroom, was given away by her girl friend, Miss E. E. Reid. She was dressed in a Tudor gown of ivory paune velvet, and carried n sheaf of se\ en lilies, her lucky number. The best man was the vicar of Fleetwood the Rev. J. w. Marsh. Mr Da ,y eWski ' s J' azz band from the Winter Gardens ballroom took part m the service and joined with «w ° r v aU Ji 1 Pl°s'ing Mendelssohn’s wedding March.”

The crowd packed all the approaches to the church, and when the ceremony was over they rushed the harriers and made a solid wall of buncUng SC ° reS deeP ’ aU round the

The bride and bridegroom found impossible to get out. of the church Only the combined efforts of the police and the surpliced choir forced a passage for them to their motor-ca-