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    1. [MON] News Items APRIL !st to JUNE 30th Three-Hundred twentyeight.
    2. J GRIFFITHS
    3. Western Mail Tuesday June15, 1926.   The engagement is announced, and the wedding will take place in Stockholm on July 17, of Mr. Raymond JEREMY, the well-known viola player, and Fru Marta FANT, daughter of the late Major and Fru NORSTRON, of Stockholm. Mr. JEREMY is a native of Laugharne, being the son of the late Mr. William JEREMY, Recorder of Laugharne, and of Mrs. JEREMY. He went to London at the age of ten to study music under Mr. Oliver WILLIAMS, also a native of Laugharne. He won the Ada LEWIS Scholarship for the violin at the Royal Academy of Music, and has been a member of the Philharmonic, Brussels, Meredyll, and Virtuoso quartettes. He has toured France, Belguim, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Norway, Denmark and Sweden, and has broadcast from stations in Great Britain, and from the Continent. After the wedding a reception will be given by the bride's mother at the Grand Hotel, Stockholm. The honeymoon is to be spent in the North of Sweden.   The marriage took place at Holy Trinity Church, Brompton, S.W., on Monday of Major George Denis ANDERSON, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George ANDERSON, of  Little Harle Tower, Harle, Northumberland, and Miss Molly MIDDLETON-EVANS (Pam), youngest daughter of the late Mr. Francisd MYDDLETON-EVANS, of, Llwynbarried, Radnorshire, and grand-daughter of the late Col. D'Arcy HUNT, of the Inniskilling Dragoons. The Bishop of Lincoln, Prebendary GOUGH (vicar of the parish), and the Rev. H.S. SMITH officiated. The bride was dressed in a fifteenth century gown of ivory crepe satin, veiled in a long tunic of chiffon, heavily embroidered with pearls and diamante, with a train of ivory and silver lame brocade lined with pale pink chiffon, with a long tulle veil, surmounted by a coronet of diamante and pearls. She was given away by her uncle, Mr. Charles D'Arcy HUNT. The bridemaids were Miss Rosemary HOLMWOOD (niece of the bride), Miss Jean Eustace SMITH, Miss June BARRINGTON-WARD, Miss Elizabeth Macarthy O'LEARY, and Miss Jane THORNEWILL. The pages were Master Patrick HOLMWOOD (nephew of the bride), Master Christopher WAKE-WALKER, Master Phillip THORNTON and Master Ian MENZIES, Captain Phillip ANDERSON (brother of the bridegroom) was best man. A reception was held at the Hans Crescent Hotel. Later in the day. the bride and bridegroom left for Venice and the Italian Lakes for the honeymoon, the bride choosing a lace caper over a champagne crepe-de-chine dress with an ecru lace hat.   The marriage was solemnised at St. Luke's Church, Pontnewynydd, on Monday of James Manning REES, chief officer of the steamship North Devon, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. REES, of Port Talbot, and Miss Elsie Maud TRATT, of Richmond House, Pontnewynydd. The Revs. D.D. RICHARDS (vicar) and T.W. MOORE (rector of Llandewi) officiated. The bride, who was attended by Miss Mabel HALL and by two pages (Master Aubrey WADE and John REES), wore a dress of ivory charmeuse, with accordian-pleated geargette, a train of gold, and a gold veil. Mr. J.H. REES, brother of the bridegroom, was the best man. After a reception at the Cafe Royal, Pontypool. Mr. and Mrs. REES left for their honeymoon tour.   John Patrick

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