GIRL TO MARRY UNCLE

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1931, Page 8

GIRL TO MARRY UNCLE

WEDDING UNDER NEW ACT. STORY OF STRANGE ROMANCE. LONDON, August 18. The girl who is marrying her uncfe revealed yesterday the inside' love swry 'of their strange romance. She is Miss 1 Jean Gordon Jones, a singer, and { daughter of Horace Jones, the Lanca- | sitiire comedian. Her “Uncle Tom," whom she is marrying at St. Clement Dane’s, in the Strand, on Saturday, is Mr T. A. Grosso, a. partner in the firm of Light and Fulton, solicitors, of Clements’ Inn and Sevenoaks. He was married to her aunt, her mother’s sister who died two years ago, and their marriage will be the first of its kind to take place under the new Marriage Act parsed last month. ATHLETJC, FIANCE. Miss Jones is. slight, and pretty, with blue eyes—and a. smile. Her unclefiance is a tall; athletic man, a former international hockey player, county cricketer and fine Rugby player. “We are so> happy we can hardly believe dt. will weally come true,” she told a reporter, “an we’ve heen through so much—l cant roll you the half of it. “Two year® ago our falling so terribly in love seemed like a‘ tragedy. I eeVldenlv realised that, the man I had always known as my uncle Tom was the man I wa.s in love with. “I had been lvis bridesmaid when T was only seven years old, you see, and it all seemed very queer and hopeless. We had to admit to each other that we. were in love, but turn where we might, the’e Was no way but of the problem. We could never’ marry, ;though we are not Mood relations at all. ■ ”• “TRIED TO PART.” “We tried to part, hut it was no good. We couldn’t live without each other. Tom suggested ' giving' up his career in England, and his nationality, and going to live in Fra pee, where such marriages are legal, but it seemed a terrible sacrifice to let him make: ‘‘Then came ' the ' first news of the new marriage Difl—which 'everyone said would never be passed. What suspense we lived in F We never believed it would get through, ’and we were tortured with anxiety.' “Then one morning. ' ag Tom was

going to the city in* the Underground, he casually read in the papoi that the Bill was passed! He leaped out of the ti-in, scattering his belongings, and tore abck to Hendon to tell me the marvellous news. When he told me T fainted. Now we are so happy that 1 yam: hardly bear it.” The honeymoon is to be spent in Paris and the Pyrenees.