Tiaras, Tusk & Tiff

The bride, handsome, wholesome, dark-browed Lady Alice Christabel Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 33, daughter of an ancient fighting family of Border Scots, was given a total of five tiaras by the groom's family,

Britain's Royal House. The Aga Khan sent an elephant tusk. Since the groom was George V's third son Henry. Duke of Gloucester, 35, strenuous British efforts were made to hush the lawsuit last week over the wedding dress. Supposed to have been entirely "British- made" by Norman Hartnell, Ltd. of London, Lady Alice's dress was in fact cut by M. Albert Cezard. Suing French Cutter Cezard last week, famed Italian-blooded Schiaparelli charged in London's Court of Appeals that he is under contract to her not to cut for a competitor until six months after July 31. One British judge having ruled against Schiaparelli earlier, the Court of Appeals acted not quite fast enough to keep Lady Alice's gown from being the subject of a lawsuit during the actual ceremony, did manage while the wedding breakfast was being eaten to hush Schiaparelli for a fewr days by "reserving judgment." Death claimed the bride's father few weeks ago, transformed the nuptials from a national pageant at Westminster Abbey into a "delightful private affair'' in the chapel of Buckingham Palace. H. R. H. slipped a ring of Welsh gold over Lady Alice's finger, repeating after the Archbishop of Canterbury: "With this ring I thee wed. With my body I thee worship. And with all my worldly goods I thee endow!" At the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey that evening, a late-straying canon found a bouquet with a royal card: "From the Duchess of Gloucester." In their own special train the new Duchess and the Duke left London to honeymoon at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, a favorite country seat of the bride's late father loaned by her brother Walter, the new Duke of Buccleuch. As they settled down with the headline, "HER GRACE ARISES EARLY TO RUN GLOUCESTER'S HOUSE," the Court of Appeals went on with Lady Alice's wedding gown "made of a new ivory-pink material called crepe alalice produced by British weavers and dyed by British dyers."

Schiaparelli's erstwhile cutter, the Court heard, introduced a trimming of orange blossoms at the neck, which he cut like a monk's cowl, otherwise left the royal wedding gown glove-fitting and unadorned.

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