Jazz Band in Church

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 20

Jazz Band in Church

Clown As Vicar’s Groomsman... Chaplain of Actors’ Union Has “Snappy” Wedding STAGE stars, chorus girls, clowus midgets, and other artists formed part of a crowd of 5,000 which gathered for a wedding at St. Stephen's Church on the cliffs at Blackpool. Miss Barbara Cuthbertson of Blackpool was married to the vicar, the Rev. F. B. Freshwater, who is a chaplain of the Actors’ Church Union. Mr. TV. McAllister, who is “Clown Doodles” of the Tower Circus, Blackpool, was groomsman, and a' troupe of eight pretty Tiller dancing girls, in silver-green satin and beige net, were maids of honour.

The bride, who is half the age o£ the bridegroom, was given away by her friend, Miss E. E, Reid. She was dressed in a Tudor gow-n of ivory panne velvet and carried a sheaf oi’ seven lilies, her lucky number. The best man was the vicar of Fleetwood, the Rev. J. W. Marsh. Mr. Herman Darewskl’s jazz band from the Winter Gardens ballroom took paR in the service and joined with organ in playing Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March.” The crowd packed all the approaches to the church, and when the ceremony was over they rushed the barriers and made a solid wall of people, scores deep, all round the building. The bride and bridegroom found it impossible to get out of the church. Only the combined efforts of the police and the surpliced choir forced a P** - sage for them to their motor-car.