GAMBLE FOR A BRIDE
' SHE WHO FOUND THE TICKET MUSIC HALL TO ALTAR. Wedding bells are soon to sound for n young Birmingham clerk who gambled for a bride—and won. Unable to fall in love with any of the girls he knew, the_ young man, Frank Somers, employed by a _ hardware firm, bought two tickets in advance for side-by-sido seats at a local music hall. Then he deliberately dropped one of them in a busy cafe in the hope that it might be picked up and used by a pretty girl, and so load to an acquaintanceship A CROWDED MOMENT, It was the night of his great gamble. Heart in mouth, Somers took his seat in the music hall. The seat nest him was empty. He scanned every pretty girl who came in.
Someone began to thread a way along the row towards the empty scat.
It was a man! But it was a false alarm. He had mistaken his seat. And then She Who Had Found the Ticket came—a vision fulfilling his wildest dreams. She dropped her bag . . Somers picked it up . . . their eyes met . . . That is the story that Mr Somers told to the ‘ Sunday Chronicle.’ The girl is Miss Mary Houstone, a typist. A wedding has been arranged to take place early in the New Year.
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Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 9
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219GAMBLE FOR A BRIDE Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 9
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