WEDDING LIKE A FILM

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1927, Page 4

WEDDING LIKE A FILM

SERAIXt.'OURT (Normandy), May 18. Aliss Pola Negri, the film actress, was married here to the Georgian Prince Serge Aldivani at five o’clock yesterday afternoon at the tiny village. hall.

She first had to present to the mayor of the village the decree of dissolution granted her by the Greek Church for her former marriage in 1919 with Count Domski.

General Prince Aldivani, the last CV.alist Governor of Georgia, was the only relative from the bridegroom’s family present. Gendarmes, firemen and local officials from villages for miles around guarded the roads and buildings, and the arrangements were almost as strict, as for a royal procession. Streams ot motor-ears blocked all the roads in the village, and scores of photographers .struggled and louglit wii/i the crowd to get the best pictures of the bride ami her husband. Tito ceremony, which was a civil one, whs quickly over, and as the smiling couple emerged enthusiastic peasants let off sporting guns and rockets to the alarm of many present. The bride’s wedding dress was ol snow-white velvet, with a coat ol white ermine. Her jewels contested ol pearls diamond and emerald bracelets, and diamond rings. Her pearl necklace supported a phiquette in the Russian style in chiselled platinum set with diamonds. • VERY HAPPY - ’. ■‘l am very happy,” the new prim -s said at. the close ol the ceremony. “The prince was my childhood sweetheart, and this is the love of my lite.” The prince is a Russian : Aliss Negri a Pole. The bride and bridegroom, accompanied by (General "Prince .MAlitaiii and their friends, returned to the Chateau do Seraincourt (bought and restored by Aliss Negri for her mother) where a country festival awaited them. Village girls rushed the cordon of police and firemen and presented bouqots to the bride.

The newly married couple 101 l late 1 iu the afternoon for their hoiieytiinnit at Deauville. It is understood that they will sail for America next Saturday, as the princess has certain film contracts to fulfil. They intend to return and live in France alterards, and the prince declares that his bride will appear in no new films. Aliss Negri signed her ago in the register as 28 and Prince Aldivani his as 26.