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...late St. Louis Brewer Adolphus Busch; and Arthur D. B. Preece, British-born St. Louis sportsman; in St. Louis. Three days before the wedding, gunmen captured the country house of George S. Tiffany, knocked him out, planned to rob his guests at a luncheon for the bride & groom, until foiled by a steward from the swank Bridlespur Club...
Marriage Annulled. Marion Talley Raucheisen, 26, Kansas City's coloratura soprano (Metropolitan Opera Company debut, 1926; retirement, 1929); and Michael Raucheisen, 43, German pianist; in Long Beach. Calif. Grounds: immediately after the wedding last June, the groom ordered out the bride's mother & sister...
Married. Josephine ("Fifi") Widener Leidy Holden, two-time divorced daughter of Philadelphia's rich Joseph E. Widener; and Aksel C. P. Wichfeld, onetime minor Danish legate to the U. S.; in Reno, Nev., a few hours after the groom's divorce from Mabelle, a relative of Chicago's Swifts...
...niece of War-time U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard; and Walter B. Levering, Yale footballer, oil scion; as of last June. Because of Yale's rule against married undergraduates, the couple concealed the marriage even from their parents. Last week, the football season past, the groom resigned from Yale...
Reason for the excess of child brides over child grooms: the rich old men of Mysore eagerly snap up brides under 10 (even though they may have no dowry) but Mysore boys marry under 10 only when two wealthy families want to conclude an "alliance" before the groom grows up and becomes choosey...