NO WEDDING MINISTER BARS THE WAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 396, 3 July 1928, Page 1

NO WEDDING

MINISTER BARS THE WAY

CINDERELLA’S SAILOR GROOM

THOUGH the banns of Miss New Zealand’s “marriage” with Cecil Scott, late of J. C. Williamson, Ltd., were published yesterday, a serious impediment arose just prior to the ceremony to-day, and the “lovers” are still apart.

The impediment was the minister of Devonport Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Lawson Marsh, M.A., who stood to receive the procession of “bride” “bridegroom,” jack tars and about 200

sightseers at his church gate. He forbade the ceremony, saying that marriage was a sacred thing and he would not allow a “fake” to be filmed either in his church or in the church grounds. The bride, Miss Dale Austen, who has to be married for the purposes of the film, “The Bush Cinderella,” had put the finishing touches to her makeup and to that of her bridesmaids in a nearby fruitshop and she swept down on the scene to discover her producer, Mr. Rudall Hayward, in long argument with Mr. Marsh. “It’s all off boys!” said one of a cheery party of bluejackets, who were there from H.M.S. Dunedin to pull the triumphant carriage away to the strains of the “Wedding March.” Some sort of compromise was evidently arrived at, or else the party waited until the minister had gone, for some scenes were “shot” in the church grounds. But the actual ceremony will have to wait.