The Marquise Elise Della Felisa, a friend of their families, snatched away the partly completed application for a marriage license and so Julie Brown Colt, divorced wife of one of the Colt Arms Co. heirs, and John Deming Campbell, scion of the soup kings, will not be married here early next week. It sounds like part of a film scenario, and it looked like the same thing yesterday afternoon when Campbell, Mrs. Colt and the Marquise appeared at the Marriage License Bureau In the Hall of Records. 

The couple started filling out the application under the disapproving eye of the Marquise. They were less than halfway through when newspaper reporters and photographers appeared on the scene. The Marquise became agitated. "This can't go on we don't like the publicity. We must wait for Mrs. Colt's mother to arrive from the East next week." The Marquise snatched the incomplete application blank and stuffed it into her purse. Then the trio quickly headed out of the building. 

The engagement of Mrs. Colt, 21, and Campbell, only a little older, was announced Tuesday in the Marquise's apartment in the Sunset Plaza. At the time, the marriage ceremony was said to be scheduled for July 4 in the home of the bride-to-be in Washington, D.C., followed by a honeymoon in Hawaii. 

Mrs. Colt is the divorced wife of Samuel Colt Jr., of the arms company, and Campbell is a stepson of one of the heads of the Campbell Soup Co. Following the sudden breakup of the couple's attempt to apply for a license, none of the three would comment.

[Julie Lawrence Brown (1916-1989) was the adopted daughter of lawyer and Princeton professor of law, Philip Marshall Brown and Jane Yuile Brown.  Julie was married first to Samuel Gilbert Colt in 1934 who she divorced in 1938.  Around 1939 she was linked romantically to Winthrop Rockefeller (fourth son of John D. Rockefeller) but they never married.  She aspired to be an actress and singer and had some stage experience under the name Julie Kylier.  She moved to Los Angeles and was picked up by colourful Hollywood publicist and talent scout Guido Orlando. It was reported that Orlando, stated that her contract forbade her from remarrying, and it is obvious from Orlando's 1954 memoir Confessions of a Scoundrel that the whole thing was a publicity stunt. The 'Marquise' being at the time one of Orlando's other clients.  In 1945 Julie married Orme Wilson Jr., a naval aviator and son of the US ambassador to Hati.  Later she married Keith Nichols, a rancher from El Rancho Kan Do, Madison, Yolo County, Colorado, and disappeared from view for several years, remerging as Julie Nichols singing her own compositions in supermarkets.]