LATE CITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 356, 17 May 1928, Page 13

LATE CITY

Wild Women Rush Menjou and Movie Bride Amazing London Scene On Arrival from Paris POLICEMEN BOWLED OVER /United P-A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) L (Australian P.A. — United Service) Reed. noon. LONDON, Wednesday.

The screen actor, Adolphe Menjou, w ho was married at Paris to Kathryn Carver, arrived in London with his 1)1 Both had been married and divorced previously. Thousands of girls and women blocked the entire entrance to Victoria

Station when the couple arrived, pushing: and scrambling,

some hysterically, In an endeavour to catch a glimpse of the him idolScores rushed to the platform waving autograph books. A special police force had to get to grips in a sea of excited femininity, in order that the couple might approach their car.

Then the women made another dash, practically bowling over the policemen ia a scramble round the motor-car, which merely crawled. Adolphe appeared to be annoyed when the throngs jumped on the running-board shouting, “We must see him.” and “What’s she like?” This is their first visit to England. They are amazed, they say, at the most remarkably enthusiastic reception of their lives. Adolphe informed reporters that it is the fireside slippers, and the domestic cat for him now. That is his ideal. He is staying in the millionaire’s suite at a West End hotel.