WEDDING AT SYDNEY

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1928, Page 2

WEDDING AT SYDNEY

A REMARKABLE PAGEANT. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Aug. 23. Signorina Toti Dal Monte and Sig-.. , nor Lomnnto, members of the William-soh-Melba Opera Company, were married at St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral here to-day. The event attracted large crowds and a fashionable gathering. SYDNEY, Aug. 23. A) ith all of the pageantry of some olden-day princess, Signorina Toti Dal ATo 11 to, the famous opera singer, was this morning married to Signor Enzodeinuro Lamanto, barrister and tenor, and the handsome singing companion of Toti in many operas. Both of them are members of the AVilliamson-Melba Opera Company. The marriage ceremony was at St. Alary’s Cathedral, the Very Reverend Dean Crowley officiating. The Nuptial ALiss was celebrated by Rev. Father Delfrancesco. The weather was fine but cloudy. A crowd of twenty thousand people stretched from the front of St. Mary’s Cathedral across the road to Hyde Park. Thousands of women and girls fought .desperately to get inside the Cathedral hours before the ceremony, which was fixed at 11.30 o'clock. The city streets and the tall buildings around were thronged with excited women, who waved and cheered the prima donna as she motored through in a large sedan lavishly bedecked with spring flowers, hyacinths. J sweet peas, violets and carnations. No wedding has aroused more interest, because of its romantic associations. The music at St. Alary’s Cathedral included the Bridal March. All of the music was glorious. Afany of the delegates at the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress were present, and they congratulated the couple.

The bridal car was mobbed after leaving the Cathedral, as it forced its way through a seething mass, mostly of women, who struggled to obtain souvenirs. In a few minutes ever}’ vestige of the floral decorations and of \ the ribbons on the car had ■disappered or had been tom to shreds. Arany women fell in front of the following cars. Fortunately no accident occurred.