WOMEN'S WORLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 288, 28 April 1913, Page 6

WOMEN'S WORLD

A GIBSON GIRL MISS OLIVE MAY MARRIED TO LORD VICTOR PAGET. Loudon, January Ifi. Miss Olive May, the well-known musical comedy actress, was married on Thursday morning, at All. Saints' Church, Norfolk street, Paddingfon, to Lord Victor Paget, brother and heir-presumptive of the Marquis of Anglesey. It was a surprise marriage. The secret of time and place had been kept to the very last. In fact, the sacristan of the church only received an intimation that the ceremony was to take place the same morning, and had considerable difficulty in making it ready, having already prepared the church for the Sunday service.

As a result of the secrecy only a few relatives and intimate friends of the principals were present—among them Miss Gertie Millar, with whom the young bride had so often acted.

The bridegroom, accompanied by his best man, Captain Joliffe, arrived shortly before the time (11.30) fixed for the wedding, and was followed soon after by the bride, who had motored from her flat in Richmond Mansions, Earl's Court, with her mother and brother. Miss May wore a heavy sable coat over her beautiful, but simple, white cashmere dress. Her brother gave her away. The service, which was fully choral, was conducted by the vicar, the Rev. William Boyd, and at the close the hymn, "0 Perfect Love," was sung and an address was given by the vicar. Mr, William Wolstenholme,* Mus.-Bac. Oxon, who is blind, was at the organ. The bride signed her name as "Olive May Meatyard," and was described as being "twenty-seven years of age, the daughter of George Meatyard, jeweller." The bridegroom is four years younger than his bride, being only twenty-three. He was described as a stockbroker, of Radnor-place, and the son of Lord Alexander Victor Paget. Among those who signed the register was the Marquis of Anglesey, whose wedding present was £IOOO a year each to the bride and bridegroom. Afterwards the bridal party lunched at the Carlton Hotel, and later in the day Lord Victor Paget and his bride left for Paris for the honeymoon. There was a curious little contretemps before the ceremony. Whether the idea was to put the curious off the scent, or whether Miss May's chauffeur made a mistake, is uncertain. At amy rate, the bride's motor car ,was pulled up at the wrong church—St. John's, in Southwick Crescent. The authorities here kindly directed Miss May to All Saints'.

, Alias May has played leading parts in "Peggy" and "Our Miss Gibbs" at the Gaiety) and_.tb.ere, made her last appearance on the stage on January 11 in "The Sunshine Girl." Curiously enough, in ibis she . represented Lady Rosabelle Merrybew, fiancee of Lord Bastin. She has two sisters on the stage—Miss Maggie May.and Miss May Onslow. Lord Victor William Paget was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. For some time a lieutenant in -the Royal Horse Guards, he is now in the reserve of officers, . ■:,''.■■■■.{

The Marquis of Anglesey succeeded to the title on the death of his cousin, who was notorious for his eccentricities and 'his'passion for acting and jewellery. The present marquis married, only last year, Lady Marjorie Manners, daughter of the Duke of Rutland, and his sisters are the wives of Viscount Ingestre, heir of the Earl of Shewsbury, and Lord Herbert, heir of the Earl of Pembroke.

Among the Gaiety actresses who have married.into the peerage are Miss Sylvia Storey (Countess Poulett), Miss Connie Gilchrist (Countess of Orkney) and Miss Bosie Boote (Marchioness of Headfort), LADY SCOTT'S CAREER The loss of Captain Scott has made itself felt through the length and breadth of the land (says Hearth and Home). He was so great and modest a hero. There was something about him that impelled attention, .even had he not been Captain Scott, and his personal friends did not loved him. His wife, in a different 1 way, was equally popular. Before her marriage, when still Miss Katherine Bruce, she was known more particularly as a sculptress of talent in Chelsea art circles, and few girls than she were more in request at dinner parties given by the intellectuals. With a classic appoal-ance, she combines a manner that is most attractive, and Captain Scott, little wonder, fell in love with her at first sight. Soon after their marriage the Seotts took a little, oldfashioned house in the farther end from town of the Buckingham Palace road, and furnished it delightfully. In time a son was born to them—one of the dearest and funniest of small boys. He is already much interested in tales of exploring, but those who care for him are Imping in their'inmost hearts that the day will not come when lie will desire to in his father's footsteps. The work of Mrs. Scott has attracted the notice ,of M. Rodin, and he greatly admires it. Among her many designs was the commemorative gold medal presented to Commanded Peary by the Royal Geographieal Society. Before her marriage, Mrs. Scott rode at„the head of a troop, 40 strong, in the Greek mountains, on some romantic expedition. Through the land of Sappho'slie walked bare-footed in ancient Greek, dress, and was one of ! the three Englisli'girls who later wore Greek dress, and went bare-foot in the streets of Paris. WEALTHY" FAMILIES UNITED London 1 , February 25!, A wedding which united one of the wealthiest and one of the oldest Jewish families in Europe attracted a great crowd the Central Synagogue yesterday. '

The Hon. James Rothschild, son of Baron Maurice, de Rothschild, and heir to a large' part' 6( the family's tremendous fortune, married Miss Dorothy Plinto, a city financier of moderate wealth, whose ancestry dates back to the Israelites of Spain and Portugal. When the bride, who is '18, arrived in an automobile at the synagogue', the crowd broke the police cordon.' Women and men rushed towards the automobile, upsetting the photographers who knelt in the front rank ,and falling over them. The smiling bride could not alight until the police straightened out the tangled mass. Among- the,bride's priceless gifts were two diamond tiaras, many long ropes of pearls, pearl.and diamond corsage sprays, and an emerald, and diamond necklace from Baron and- Baroness Edmund de Rothschild..