Oh I'm not so old, and I'm not so plain,
And I'm quite prepared to marry again!
—Lord High Chancellor's song in Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe
Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place...
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