MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 3

MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE.

AN ACTRESS’ ROMANCE.

A romance of the stage, of which the final scene was laid in a fashionable New York restaurant, whence the guests adjourned at midnight for the solemnisation of the marriage service, has just brought sorrow to two of the oldest and most respected families in New England, and incidentally furnished Boston and New York with a feast of gossip.

Young Mr. Briston Draper is the chief figure in this latest scandal. He is the son of the Lie\itenant-Governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Ebenezer Draper, head of an old and extremely wealthy Boston family. For some time he has been engaged to Miss Alice Marjorie Ray, a playmate of

his childhood and an heiress of great social distinction. Preparations for

the marriage of the young couple were already far advanced, and a beautiful residence, which had been constructed specially for them, beside the mansion of the LieutenantGovernor, was waiting to receive them after the honeymoon. But when their friends were congratulating them on their approaching happiness, young Mr. Draper, who has just celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday, suddenly loft home and travelled to New York. There, after supper at Rector's Restaurant, he proceeded to a little church around the corner, where he was married to Miss Queenie Sandford, who has been recently appearing in a subordinate role at Walllack’s Theatre. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Houghton. Immediately afterwards Mr. Draper took the first train to Boston to acquaint his father of the sudden change in his plans and to obtain forgiveness. But tho irate LieutenantGovernor is said to have precipitately ejected his son from tho house.