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...ceremony was to be performed by the Cathedral's British dean, the Very Rev. Dr. A. C. S. Trivett. Upon him crashed an avalanche of letters from crusty Shanghai Britons and their wives. Was the Church of England going to do "irreparable damage to British prestige" in China? Was a "bazaar girl," as the English ladies expressed it, to be wed in a Christian Cathedral pack-jammed with pagan guests and with Chinese floodlights and Chinese sound cameras perpetuating the scene to be flung before slant-eyed millions in Chinese newsreels...
That was exactly what the Very Rev. Dr. Trivett had in mind. The hubbub of Chinese in his Cathedral was so loud that the Dean had to shout the Anglican service at the top of his voice to get it on cinema sound tracks distinctly. With Chinese mothers suckling their babes in the sacred aisles, with nimble Chinese climbing the Cathedral's pillars for a better view, and with Miss Butterfly Wu triumphant, white friends of the bridegroom and members of the diplomatic corps stayed away and shuddered...