Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1959)

And then Jacques leaned back, reached for a phone and said, smilingly, to a smiling Dorothy, "Now to find out about the business of the certificate. . . ." Exactly forty-five minutes and eleven phone calls later, neither of them was smiling. The bad news was, simply, that they could not get married in Japan without undergoing a five-day waiting period. "Now what do we do?" Dorothy asked. Jacques thought for a moment. "When I was in the Army, in France," he said, "there used to be an expression we used when we had a problem. 'Tell the minister,' it went." "Our boys had the same expression," Dorothy said, nodding, "only I think it went, 'Take it to the chaplain.' " "Yes," Jacques said, reaching for the phone again, then asking the hotel clerk to place a call to the nearest Catholic Church. "Hello, Father?" he was saying a few moments later, to an English-speaking priest at the other end of the line. He explained his and Dorothy's problem. When he hung up, he turned to Dorothy. "It's all settled," he said. "We go to Hong Kong." "Hong Kong?" Dorothy asked. "You mean — China?" "Once a part of China, though Hong Kong is now a British Crown Colony," i Jacques said. "The priest told me it will be easy there, with no wait. And he said Everybody \ (guys and gals) 1 should read I "Understand The | Boy In Your Life" 1 fife* in the September | October issue of I INGENUE. It says boy-girl § relationships can be ! i great, instead of \ [ JUDI a problem. The way § I MEREDITH L , it should be! 1 there is a fine Catholic church there, St. Teresa's, and a priest we must call as soon as we get there, a Father Orlando. . . . It's only a few hours by plane from here, Dorothy. Are you still game? A Sunday wedding — this Sunday?" "I'm dizzy, but yes," she said, "a Sunday wedding — this Sunday." Jacques got up from the couch. "There's a travel agency in the lobby," he said. "I'll go down and get the tickets. Meanwhile, you tell your mama what we've decided and tell her that she must get ready to come with us, too." "Ready?" a voice came from the next room. "Children, I could hear everything through these Japanese walls. And I don't mind telling you slowpokes I've just about got my suitcase packed already!" The plane carrying the excited threesome arrived at Hong Kong Airport shortly after noon the following day, Saturday. There to meet them were Mr. K. Y. Pan, the local MGM distribution manager, and his wife, and Mr. H. S. Moh, of Paramount Pictures. Immediately, Dorothy and Jacques asked Mr. Moh and Mrs. Pan if they would act as best man and matronof-honor at the wedding. The two agreed, there were embraces all around and then the entire party drove to the Peninsula Hotel for lunch. Following lunch, there was an interview with reporters from the local press. And then Mr. Moh and the Pans drove Jacques and Dorothy to the City Hall for the civil marriage papers. At three o'clock, the couple parted, Jacques leaving with the men for the church where they would talk with the priest and make the necessary arrangements for the next day, Dorothy leaving with Mrs. Pan to buy her dress. Like any girl in a hurry, anywhere, Dorothy took hours making up her mind about the dress. She and Mrs. Pan went from shop to shop to shop. And it wasn't till they came to a shop run by a Miss Betty Clemo that the decision was made. Dorothy spotted something in the back of the shop, a very simple dress, snow white, strangely cut — long, with threequarter sleeves and high slits on either side — hanging alone in a shining glass case. "That's nice," Dorothy said, staring over at it, suddenly fascinated. "That is what we call a cheongsam — a Chinese-style dress," Miss Clemo told her. "It's made of Guipure lace, the most exquisite of all laces. I daresay it's the most beautiful dress in all of Hong Kong." "It is beautiful," she said. "I think it's the most beautiful dress I've ever seen." Her eyes still on the dress, she said, "I imagine it's very expensive." "Let's see," Miss Clemo said, figuring. "In American money it would cost — $800." Dorothy gulped. She turned away from the case. "Oh my gosh," she said. "I know movie people are supposed to be rich. But I'm a girl who works hard for her money, and I'm not a big spender by nature, and $800 — well, that's a fortune for just one dress." "It's not cheap, no," said Miss Clemo. "I should say not," said Dorothy. "And — " She stopped suddenly and turned back around to look at the dress again. " — And I really love it and a girl only gets married once and I'll take it!" she said, in one long, jubilant breath. What the newspaper said The wedding, this morning, was very lovely, a Hong Kong reporter wrote for his paper later that next day. The Nuptial Mass, held in conjunction with a Students' Day Mass, began at 7:45 and lasted nearly an hour. It was officiated by the Reverend Father Carmelus Orlando. The church was decorated with palm leaves and little vases of ginger flowers, which gave off a permeating fragrance. Miss Malone, looking very appealing and kneeling at the silk-draped prie-dieu with Mr. Bergerac throughout the Mass, seemed radiant and she smiled particularly when the chorus of children's voices began to sing the hymns Immaculate Mary and Soul of Our Saviour. Following the Mass, the couple walked arm-in-arm down the aisle to the strains of the Wedding March from Lohengrin and then went to the Vestry where Miss Malone cut a wedding cake and where all drank champagne, provided by the mother of the bride. With the champagne the groom, at the suggestion of friends, proposed a traditional Oriental toast to his bride — To me you are and always will be the scent of the flowers, the radiance of the moon, the purity of the snow — and then the bride retired to a room to change into her goingaway outfit, an ivory silk suit with a smart cloche hat. It was interesting to all to note that though it was raining and the skies were leaden when the bride arrived, the rain had ceased and the sun was just managing to glint through the heavy clouds as the film stars left the Vestry together. "Surely a sign of good luck," as one of the crowd remarked. END See Dorothy in MGM's The Last Voyage. "I scrubbed and tried all kinds of remedies, but the blemishes stayed. Then I heard how well Clearasil worked for other girls like myself. Now, every time I look in the mirror, I thank Clearasil for the way it cleared my complexion." 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