Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army, is incredulous when told that Greek troops, all males, are threatening the Amazon capital. Her sister, Queen Hippolyta (Marjorie Rambeau) is amazed when one of her counselors suggests that she try the unheard of experiment of marriage. She ridicules the idea of staying faithful to her silky little groom (Ernest Truex) but agrees to the ceremony because her treasury is running short of money and his mother has plenty of it. The main trouble with The Warrior's Husband is that its theme lacks capacity for development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical...
...rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both bride and groom are nationally known, Mr. William Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel...
Married. Onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York City and his good friend, onetime Actress Betty Compton; by the Mayor of Cannes, France. Said the Mayor of Cannes to the groom: "I hope when you are recalled to America to take another official position, probably as Mayor of New York, you will remember Cannes pleasantly...
Married. Philip Mattiessen Chancellor, 25, $9,000,000 heir of the late Illinois zinc man F. W. Mattiessen; and one Elsa Klecker, 28, Viennese; in London. The groom's 1927 elopement marriage to Helen Carroll Baines, daughter of a Pennsylvania Railroad vice president, was annulled...
...young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl, goes to Mexico with one of his friends (Fred Keating, who used to make birdcages disappear and eat needles...