JAZZ WEDDING THRILLS 2,000
Nuptial Procession Foxtrots to Altar in First Syncopated Marriage Ceremony.
EVEN DAN CUPID SHIMMIES
First syncopated marriage ceremony
Violins Croon and Saxophones Groan as Knot Is Tied at Roseland.
Ever since Kathleen Bott became engaged to Robert Wagner, she dreamed of a big wedding with all the modern accessories. But she never dreamed of as marriage so spectacular, so ultra-modern as that which she passed through last night.
It was the first jazz wedding of all time. It was staged in the huge dance-hall at Rosland, Broadway and Fifty-first street, where 2,000 persons cheered and showered rice on the elated couple.
From beginning to end the ceremony was syncopated. Two big jazz orchestras crooned and chuckled and moaned through the bridal chorus of Lohengrin.
FOX TROTTERS PARADE
Down the roped aisle came twenty bridesmaids and twenty groomsmen, fox-trotting with shaking shoulders, swaying hips and sparkling eyes, toward the altar, where stood the Rev. Dr. William Klett, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Mediator in Brooklyn, with Bible in hand.
Followed twenty flower girls, in ballet costume with slippers of gold, and they piroutted and pranced in a long zig-zag movement to the tantalizing time of the bands. After them a Cupid stepped backward with shimmying little body and shaking head.
NO “OBEY,” EITHER!
Katherine and Robert couldn’t be married at high noon—that was too old fashioned—and so they were married at high midnight on the Leap Year day, and there was no “obey” in the service either!
As they stepped from the altar the crowd broke through and engulfed them, the band blared “Goodbye Girlie, I’m Through,” and everybody got a wriggle on. [ . . . ]
[New York American, March 1, 1924, p.5.]
EVEN DAN CUPID SHIMMIES
First syncopated marriage ceremony
Violins Croon and Saxophones Groan as Knot Is Tied at Roseland.
Ever since Kathleen Bott became engaged to Robert Wagner, she dreamed of a big wedding with all the modern accessories. But she never dreamed of as marriage so spectacular, so ultra-modern as that which she passed through last night.
It was the first jazz wedding of all time. It was staged in the huge dance-hall at Rosland, Broadway and Fifty-first street, where 2,000 persons cheered and showered rice on the elated couple.
From beginning to end the ceremony was syncopated. Two big jazz orchestras crooned and chuckled and moaned through the bridal chorus of Lohengrin.
FOX TROTTERS PARADE
Down the roped aisle came twenty bridesmaids and twenty groomsmen, fox-trotting with shaking shoulders, swaying hips and sparkling eyes, toward the altar, where stood the Rev. Dr. William Klett, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Mediator in Brooklyn, with Bible in hand.
Followed twenty flower girls, in ballet costume with slippers of gold, and they piroutted and pranced in a long zig-zag movement to the tantalizing time of the bands. After them a Cupid stepped backward with shimmying little body and shaking head.
NO “OBEY,” EITHER!
Katherine and Robert couldn’t be married at high noon—that was too old fashioned—and so they were married at high midnight on the Leap Year day, and there was no “obey” in the service either!
As they stepped from the altar the crowd broke through and engulfed them, the band blared “Goodbye Girlie, I’m Through,” and everybody got a wriggle on. [ . . . ]
[New York American, March 1, 1924, p.5.]
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