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Royal gatecrasher: Queen hits wedding

LONDON

A British couple say their wedding had an unlikely gatecrasher — Queen Elizabeth II dropped in on the ceremony during an official tour.

John Canning and his new wife, Frances Canning, said Saturday that the monarch chatted and posed for photographs with the newlyweds as she visited Manchester Town Hall on Friday.

The queen and husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, were visiting the venue for lunch at the same time the wedding took place there.

Bride Frances Canning told The Sun newspaper “it was very special — it was so lovely that she took the trouble to speak to us.”

The British monarch was in the city of Manchester, in northern England, to visit a number of sites, including a new BBC headquarters building in nearby Salford.

NY exhibit focuses on Haring’s early career

NEW YORK

A new exhibition in New York City focuses on the early career of artist Keith Haring.

“Keith Haring: 1978-1982” at the Brooklyn Museum includes his mazelike works on paper, 30 black-and-white subway drawings, experimental videos and rarely seen sketchbooks and journals.

The bohemian atmosphere of downtown New York in the 1970s and 1980s had a huge impact on Haring’s art.

He came to New York in 1978 from Kutztown, Pa., and attended the School for Visual Arts for a year.

He immersed himself in the city’s underground art and music scene and gay subculture.

The show also explores his role as a curator of other artists’ works.

The fliers he designed promoting alternative space exhibitions are part of the show.

It runs through July 8.

Rare film posters found in Pa. attic fetch $503K

PHILADELPHIA

A collection of rare movie-theater posters found in a northeastern Pennsylvania attic has fetched a total of $503,000 at auction.

The sale of 33 posters from the Golden Age of Hollywood ended Friday at Heritage Auctions in Texas.

The auction house said a rare 1931 poster for the movie “Dracula” topped the list with a selling price of $143,400.

It sold to an anonymous overseas buyer.

A surprise of the auction was the $101,575 price paid for the rare poster of the 1931 movie “Cimarron,” the first Western to win the Best Picture Academy Award.

The posters were stuck together with wallpaper glue when they were purchased for around $30,000 at a country auction last fall in Berwick.

The rare find was revealed as they were steamed apart.

Associated Press