The Wedding March — Pity the poor royalties

The Wedding March — Pity the poor royalties

John Gordon Thomson (1841-1911)

Fun 57-58 (17 May 1893): 203

In the “Wedding March,” which appears on p. 3, a few pages before the illustration, the versifier not only offers best wishes but also offers sympathy for their burdens of modern celebrity —  having to endure “the Paul Pry order of attention.”

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