MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 6

MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL

MARRIAGE TO MR (i. OGRNWALLISWKST. A DRAMATIC SURPRISE. London, April 9. Within two hours of the President of the Divorce Division making absolute the decree nisi granted against Mr. (J. Jornwallis-West to his wife, formerly Lady Randolph Churchill, Mt. OornwaillisWitet married Mrs. Patrick Campbell tlie famous actress. The ceremony w;u perionmx] at Kensington Registry Office Few even of tihe bride's most, intimate friends knew t'hat the marriage; was to take place, and they were sworn, to the strictest secrecy. Shortly after 1 o'clock }n Monday word was brought to Mr. ConnvalliK-Wes/t at his residence in St. James's Place that the decree; nisi feu! been mtido absolute-. Accompanied by Mr. James Tillott and M.r. tieorge Davy, ie drove in a closed motor-car to tlie registry office, where at 2.30 Mrs. Pat rick Campbell, motoring from her house in Kensington, joined' him. Mrs. Campbell w«vs drowsed in black silk, with plaidl .-/:1k .ribbon-., with sasJifis about the knees and wii&t. She wore a ribbon corsage and a Mm* hat witli ribbons -to mutch. Mr. Corualllis'-'West ,vas in a blue serge suit With a dark, heavy overcoat and a Trilby hat. He jreobeJ lim Campbell when, her car arrived ait ,tiho registry office, and with the typical smie of the ■ happy bride ■she alighted l and passed into the office. The ceremony, including the signing of bile documents, was over withm a [uarter of an hour. The certificate of the ikvrrintge is as follows.— tteorge Frederick MycMleton Corn-wallis-West, aged thiirty-nhie, divotrced rusband of Jennie Oonvwallis-West, formerly Churchill, widow); independent means; • father'* name and surname, William Cornwallis-West, LordLieutenant of Denbighshire. Beatrice Stella Campbell, aged forty-seven, widow; father's name John Tanner, deceased, gentlcnifin. The witnesses were Janus Tillot'L. and Seorge Diavy. THE ACTRESS RECOGNISED. ,Me;tr.while Sirs. Patrick Campbell had been recognised, and a small group assembled outside tho office. A photographer waa ready for -a snapshot oi the bride and 'bndeg'ro.ocn, but the latter was too quick. Looking' greatly annoyed, he snatclhed the camera, out of the man's hand, and took it way with him in hi.v n:oi.ar-c,i.r. The nutvly-nmrricil couple loft, for the i.o-untry for a brief honeymoon, but Mrs. Cornwv.ll'is-Wess was due to return. .to His Majesty's Theatre yestcxdti-y i'r.r the ,resumed itheaaisib of 'Pygmalion." , Mr. Oornwallis-West if- 'the heir ci Colonel W. C. Cornw.Uiii-Wesl", wW Ims been Lord-'Lieutenant of Denbighshire since 1872 and! owns I(MMK> atras. His mother, a daughter of Mr. and Lady Olivia Eitzpatrick, was one of the most beautiful women oi lie,r day, -and her sisters, both famous .beauties, are now the Duchess of Westminster and the Princessr of Pics. In July, 1900, lie married La<ly 'Ra-ndoljh Churchill theu a widow, at St. Paul's ClmfKii, Knightsbridge. He was a.t that time &» officcf. in the fibots 'Ciua-rds.. He surved in tin' South African war, and was invali'lfiit homo arU'.r a- severe attack of enteric fever. It will be remembered tlm'l during tbf) 'same war 'Lady Pavndol'pli equipped the hospital ship Maine, svnrt went out to the Ca-p" '°n it. After their anwriage they Jived in Norfolk street, Pairk Lane, "until December 21!. 1912. On that date, according to statement?. afterwards mad'e in, the- Divorce Court, Mr. CornwallteWost left th» house and refusal to re,turn. On thi" and other evidence a decree nisi was pvor.r.ivnced on Ifflh July la*t. and thU was made absolute shortly before M:\ Cornwialilis-West's second marri.'ge. TiJlv iililDK. Mis. I'ativ.k Campbell, though hcv nanio ffive no hint of u, ha," Italian blood in her veins, for her inot'iior w«.i Luigia itomsifflini, tlie beautiful daug-hte of a political refugee. She was oniy sixteen at tlie time of 'her runaway nuu.riage witih a naval cadet named Patrick Campbell, two years older than hctsclf. '.Mr. Uunpbcll was ,the- son of a Scotsman, who was manager of tlie 'Orterttal Bank, both in the : tisist and in 'London. The young husband left the Navy and went abroad o» business ■when his wife was 'twenty-one. He became a tiu-.jj!anter, anil wn-i ab;eiLl for seven years. Meanwhile, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, already an accomplished actress (v.ith a Norwood society), nnil then a Sl»Ke. speaiiaij -aotressi with the liandimaiir.. Palmer, and Bon Uroet coanpanies. Tlie part of Paula Tant|iieray in "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," the forerunner of it'he •modern problem jriay, brought her fame 'in 1593. Lady Alexander saw her in "Tlie Light of Home" and perstiadrd her husband to engage the then comparatively olwni'e young act:; iSince then .-she has had a, career of triumph. Her lui-.lkiiuT, Mr. Patrick Campbell, die,! in 1!)00 in South Africa, where lie served with distinction in the Imperial Yen mtinry. She has two children—'Mr. Abut Cam])beilil, who after a brief time in the Navy took to dramatic writing and the stage, and Miss Sti'lk Campbell, wiio is steadily inakinfl he. r way in. tlie profession which 'her mother adorns.