Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-02-11
LOIS MORAN BRIDE
Of NOTED A|RMAN
Actress and Col. C. M.
Young on Honeymoon Here.
Wed Yesterday.

Lois Moran, stage and screen star
and Col. Clarence M. Young, forme,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Aeronautics, are honeymooning at
the Hay-Adams House here today fol-
lowing their unannounced marriage
yesterday afternoon while en- route
from New York to Washington.
Col. Young, now an aviation con-
sultant to Pan-American Anyways and
other aeronautical groups, had plan
ned a business trip to Washington
and last week made several appoint
ments with business and personal
acquaintance here for today.
Miss Moran told the Associated
Press last night that she and the
colonel made up their minds to be
married while the colonel was pre-
pairing to leave New York for Wash
ington yesterday morning.
Forget Minister'S Name.
Accompanied by Miss Moran's
mother. Mrs. G. E. Moran, her sister
Betty, and a friend, A. L. Miller, they
left New York in Col. Young's auto
mobile. Arriving in Baltimore in mid
afternoon, they routed a court clerk
from his Sabbath holiday long enough
to get a license, then hurried to a
minister. who performed the cere-
mony. They said today they did not
remember the minister's name, but In
Baltimore the Rev. William L. Hoff-
man as "rateh surprised" to learn
a couple he married were a well
known actress and former Assistant
Secretary of Commerce.
The bride was married in black
travelling suit and sports hat, while
Col. Young was in street clothes.
Friends of Col. Young, with whom
he had made appointments here.
knew nothing of his marriage until
they read of it in the newspapers.
1t was said that plans of the
couple are indefinite, except that they
will go to San Francisco soon. The
bride indicated that she might make
another picture or two if the chance
comes"
Bride IS, Young Is IS.
Mrs. Young. whose home was In
Pittsburgh, will be rs years old next
month. Col Young is As years old
and native of Colfax. Iowa
The bride, born and reared in Pitts
burgh, started her stage career as a
dancer in the Paris National Opera.
She was the star of motion pictures
of a few years ago, among them
Stella Dallas" God Gave Me 20
Cents" THE Road to Mandalay" and
THE Music Master" but returned
to the stage several years ago.
Since her return to the stage she
has appeared here as co-star with
William Gaxton and Victor Moore
in "Of Thee I Sing" and its sequel.
Let EN- Eat Cake"
Col. Young. graduate of Drake
and Yale Universities, began his fly
ing career in the Army Air Service
in the World War and was so prof.
Gent in his ground training that he
was one Of three men selected from
his class for duty overseas. During
the World War he landed crippled
plane in a marsh in front of a nest
of Austrian machine guns and spent
five months in prison camp.
Young played a vital part in the
establishment of Federal control over
civil aeronautics and when William p
MacCracken resigned in 1929, Young
succeeded him as Assistant Secretary,
, holding Office under Presidents
Hoover and Roosevelt until the office
was abolished in 1888 in the reorgan-
ization which led to the creation of
the present Bureau of Air Commerce.