Professor Hamilton's Diary: Aug. 17, 1935

They go to a wedding; another one was canceled

Professor Hamilton filled a page of his diary today in his small, crabbed handwriting. In the morning, he and Margaret took the subway to New York. First stop: The Steinway Piano store. “Got money from her savings account and made full payment on piano,” he wrote. They again went to the Russian Tea Room for lunch, and then bought a couple of new shirts for him, returning to Bronxville on the subway. “It was very hot,” he wrote.

Next he took Margaret to the hairdresser and ran some errands while she got her hair done, killing some time at the public library, reading. In the evening they drove with her parents — all in evening dress — to a wedding in New Rochelle. “Many young people — few that we know. Simple ceremony,” he observed. They were home at 10:30.

Read on about this at-home wedding and a more infamous one that almost happened in 1935 — in the movies.

The Hamiltons’ friend Katherine Meyers, her picture clipped from the New Rochelle Standard-Star of August 19, provides quite a contrast to Elsa Lanchester in her role as Bride of Frankenstein in a photo from Wikimedia Commons.