On Easter Monday, April 18. Miss Marjorie Parsons, eldest daughter or two of Shanghai's best. known residents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E
Parsons, was married at St, James's Church, Weihaiwei, to Lieut.-
Commander E. M. Benton, R.N., of H.M.S. Sultolk, son of Sir Edward and Lady Benton, of Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey. The bride was carried to the church in a Chinese wedding chair, to the great approval of the local population, who lined the roads and filled the little churchyard After the ceremony the bride and bridegroom left the church under an arch of swords and entered a unique vehicle—two rickshaws lashed together. Preceded by a band of the Royal Marines, and pulled by five midshipmen, with five more midshipmen behind and a party of sailors with ropes acting as brakes, they were taken down the steep path from the church to the United Services Club where the reception was held Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Parsons (father and mother of the bride), the bridegroom and bride, Lieut.- Commander A. Gunn. R.N. (best man), Miss Betty Parson (In front) The little flower girls, the ses Jill and Jocelyn Pomfret The bride, wearing the lace veil which her great-grandmother wore as a bride, entering the scarlet and gold wedding chair in which she was carried to the church The bride and bridegroom in their rickshaw-chariot as they left St. James's Church after the ceremony on their way to the United Services Club for the reception "Der Geheimvertrag"
On Friday the German A.D.C. opened its last pi of the 1938 season at the Lyceum Theatre—'Der Geheimvertrag crat Documénts" Another performance will be given on May 12. Ladies of the cast are (above, 1. to r.) the Misses M. Moeller, M, Stohler, I. Berg: (below)
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