WOMEN FIGHT TO SEE SINGER WED AT SYDNEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 1

WOMEN FIGHT TO SEE SINGER WED AT SYDNEY

DAL MONTE MARRIES ITALIAN TENOR WILD EXCITEMENT {United I*.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) SYDNEY, Thursday. Signorina Toti dal Monte and Signor Enzo de Muro Lomanto, two of the principals in the Williamson-Melba Grand Opera Company, were married to-day at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The event attracted large crowds, and there was a fashionable gathering of invited guests. The Very Rev. Dean Crowley officiated. Nuptual mass was celebrated by Father del Francesco. Huge crowds of people stretched from the front of the cathedral across the road to Hyde Park. Thousands of women and girls fought desperately to secure entrance

to the cathedral hours before the ceremony. The city streets and buildings were thronged with excited women, who waved and cheered the prima donna as she drove in a sedan car lavishly bedecked with hyacinths, sweet peas, violets and carnations. The music in the cathedral included a solo, “Ave Maria,” sung by Signorina Arangi Lombardi. The bridal car wos mobbed as it forced its way through the crowd. Women struggled to obtain souvenirs and in a few minutes every vestige of the flowers and of the ribbons on the car had disappeared or been torn to shreds. Many women fell in front of the following cars but none was hurt.

After the ceremony at the Cathedral a civil ceremony was carried out at the Italian Consulate by the Consul-General, Commendatore Grossardi. Their honeymoon will be brief, but Signorina dal Monte said that their real honeymoon would begin on their voyage back to Italy. Signora de Muro will be the new name of, Signorina dal Monte. Lomanto is the professional name of the bridegroom, actually his mother’s name, which he was obliged to adopt as another singer, widely known in Italy, is named de Muro. With her husband, Signorina de Muro will make her first reappearance on Monday in “The Tales of Hoffmann.”