Third Mass Marriage at the Civie Centre To the tune of the Wedding March played by the band of the Bureau Public Safety, 64 brides and 64 Jerooms filed from separate anterooms on the ground floor from each side of the City Government building at the Civic Centre, walked slowly around semi-circular drives and fiscended Jong staircases leading into the hall where shay were united in Shanghai's third mass marriage last Wednesday afternoon, Gen. Wu Te-chen, the Mayor, and Mr. Hu Hsin-ya, Commissioner of the [Bureau of Social Affairs, officiated at the wedding. In the hall, each couple advanced In order on to the plat= form, where, after a few bows to the portrait of" the late Kuomintang fielder, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, and the Aeials, they received the marriage Jeertificate and a silver souvenir. JAtter every couple had thus been jursied, the Mayor declared them Jhusbonds and wives and also wished {them happiness in a brief speech, The grooms wore Chinese. long Jgowns and jackets and the brides }Chinese" dresses with wedding vells, all of which were hired out by a [Chinese silk weaving factory. There Were no attendants, The mass marriage, which ig in keeping with the New Life Move-Iment, was first introduced here Apri 2, when 67 couples were united in matrimony,
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