DODGING WEDDING CROWD

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18642, 21 May 1932, Page 13 (Supplement)

DODGING WEDDING CROWD

SIR JAMES BARRIE’S RUSE. ESCAPE BY COAL CELLAR. Sir .Tames Barrie, a timid figure in a tall hat and dark overcoat, escaped the crowd after the wedding of his godson llie original “Peter Pan”— Mr Peler Llewellyn Davies, recently by leaving the chapel of the Savoy, in the Strand, via the furnace room and the coal cellar. The bride was one of the Rufhven twins- —the Hon. Margaret Ruthven — and the fact that she intended to wear the wedding gown of her sister, the Hon. Mrs -John Barran, from whom sho had been inseparable until the wedding of the latter nearly three years ago, attracted hundreds of sightseers. When the ceremony was over and the bride and bridegroom had been photographed with the former’s dog, Poppet, the crowds refused to disperse, and photographers waited lo snap [ho famous author. A plot, to smuggle Sir James out of the vestry door and across tho churchyard failed, as the preparations were noticed. Then there came an eager conference with the chapel ollleials, the figure of the liltle, Scotsman disappeared—and later there was Barrie, having escaped by Hie coal cellar, running down a side turning towards the Embankment. There lie got a taxicab and drove lo Farm House, Pont Street, for the family luncheon party which followed Hie wedding.