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Figure of Fun. For a time Queen Victoria had a taste for Tupper's poetry. When the Princess Royal married Prince Frederick of Prussia, she commanded lyrics from Tupper, and ordered him to the palace to present the bride & groom with specially bound copies of Proverbial Philosophy. The bard got a private audience and passed the books direct from his own common paws into the royal hands. He was told it was an honor that had been done to only one other British writer-George III was once as gracious to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Americans were impressed with Tupper...
...Meter. In Upton, England, the Rev. Sidney Clarence Jones warned that henceforth any bride who keeps her impatient groom waiting at the altar will be fined a shilling (14?) a minute after the first 5 minutes...
...town near Cali a wedding was being celebrated when police forced their way into the church, arresting the pastor and beating up the bride, groom and some of those in attendance . . . The pastor had to escape from the town at night in disguise...
...Brooklyn, Koerner came face to face with a scene very much like the scene in the painting. The mural ad (for a photographer who specialized in wedding pictures), the poster with the sleeping baby, and even the blimp, were all there. What first struck Koerner about the bride & groom on the poster was that they reminded him of his parents. His second reaction was that they represented a gigantic "illusion" of wedded bliss, superimposed on the brick reality of the apartment house, and pierced with glimpses into cramped, sweaty lives...
Irene Rich, 58, star of the silent screen who recently played the first woman President of the U.S. in Broadway's long-running As the Girls Go, was to be a bride for the fourth time. The groom-to-be: Utilities (Stone & Webster, Inc.) Executive George H. Clifford, 68, a widower...