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...Millstones. But from the beginning she found herself overshadowed by competitors. "Uncle Ted" attended her wedding, and the bride & groom found themselves standing alone at the reception while the guests crowded up to hear the President tell stories. After the honeymoon her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt, treated her like a child. The old lady controlled the family purse strings; she hired the bride's servants, and ruled the bride's house and husband: Franklin always deferred to his mother. A longtime acquaintance remembers Sara Roosevelt saying before company, in thoughtless brutality: "Eleanor...
...radio men at the U.S. Civilian Information & Education office were horrified, adamantly "recommended" that the show go on. Eriko, they felt, had a mildly democratizing influence on listeners. Says Nagayama: "It was most sorrowful. We couldn't fight back; it was practically an order." Dutifully, Uchimura wrote the groom out of the script, replaced him with a dawdling suitor who would obviously be around for years to come...
Preachers from other churches are often invited by the bride or groom to conduct the ceremony. Barring a special State license, only ministers living in Massachusetts can officiate in weddings in the State...
...weekly Clarks, Neb. News, the story on Myrtle Mace's wedding told more about the groom than the bride. Said the News: "He wore a bluish business suit consisting of coat, vest and pants. The suit had been recently cleaned and pressed . . . Beneath was a freshly laundered white shirt. [His] hair had been recently trimmed by Fred Gilliard, Clarks's barber, and was brushed flat with a part on the left side." The reporter: Editor John Carter. The groom: Editor Carter...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...