“HERE COMES THE BRIDE”

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 118, 9 August 1927, Page 6

“HERE COMES THE BRIDE”

A THEATRICAL ROMANCE

1 | : GRAND-NIECE OF SIR i | HENRY CAMPBELL- l j BANNERMAN WEDS MAN- ! AGER OF REGENT j THEATRE

THE orchestra was stilled for a moment . . . the packed at the Regent settled itself after a burst of applause for the Russian tenor, Maxim Brodi . . . the lights were dimmed, and everyone looked expectantly for the next item, by Miss Isobel Langlands, the brilliant little violinist from Melbourne.

Quietly Eddie Horton slipped into t] ?at at the Wurlitzer . . . the orchest:

MRS. EDWIN R. GREENFIELD, nee Miss Isobel Langlands, who was quietly married yesterday morning. —Tornquist Situdy. took its cue, and at the moment Miss Langlands appeared there welled out in the theatre the ever-thrilling Wedding March. Confetti, the thought of the stage hands, streamed down from the flies . . . and through it all the little figure on the stage blushed and trembled, while the audience, quick to realise that she had been taken by surprise and that she must be the bride, gave her the most tremendous ovation that has been accorded anyone in the Regent Theatre. LILIES AND ROSES When the audience was at last quieted, the little bride went through her act, playing perhaps more charmingly than ever. At any rate, the audience thought so, for again and again she was recalled, while a glorious basket of roses and lilies and freesias and glowing autumn-tinted bouquets and dainty boxes of chocolates were handed up to her. AFTER THE SHOW

When the last notes of the “King” had died away a number of the audience who had made the acquaintance of the bride during her brief sojourn in New Zealand, and some of the bridegroom’s friends, wended their way to the back of the stage, where a delightful little scene was c lacted. The theatre staff, who somehow or other had found out that at noon that day Miss Langlands had been quietly married to Mr. Edwin Greenfield, the popular manager of the Regent Theatre, had arranged a little presentation for the bride and groom. Mr. Maurice Guttridge, on behalf of the entire staff, presented Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield with a handsome silver tea and coffee service and an inscribed salver. Briefly Mr. Greenfield thanked the members of the staff for their kindly thought and Mrs. Greenfield too expressed her appreciation of their charming little act . A CLEVER MUSICIAN Mrs. Greenfield has a rather wonderful musical record behind her, and is an exceptionally brilliant violinist. Studying at the Melbourne Conservatoriurn she soon became one of the favourite pupils of Fritz Hart, the director, and too, has numbered among her tutors such men as Stanislav de Tarczynski, Slorenc Hoogstoer and Leo Cherniavsky. As Miss Isobel Langlands this little lady has given a number of recitals in Melbourne and has also toured with concert parties including musicians like Althouse and Middleton with whom she acted as soloist. The only daughter of Mr. James Langlands and the late Mrs. James Langlands, of Melbourne, she is well known among the younger social set of that city, and was a protegee of Lady Northcote's, wife of the one-time Governor-General of Victoria.

A PRIME MINISTER’S NIECE Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who in the days before the war was Prime Minister of England, was a grand-uncle of Mrs. Greenfield’s, and at Home has living a large number of very well-known relatives. She is herself the possessor of a quiet, unassuming: personality, and to a marked degree she has charm and adaptability. She is interested in many

things besides her music ... sports and entertaining and various kinds of welfare work. In Melbourne she was a member of the League of Nations Union and of. various clubs, and will probably interest herself in many similar organisations here. Mr. and Mrs. Greenfield have taken a charming fiat in Gladstone Road, Parnell, where they will temporarily make their home.