Futabayama Engaged To Movie Actress, Miyako Story Says
Grand Champion Sadaji Futabayama has been engaged
to marry the Nikkatsu movie star Chiyoko Okura since November last year,
the Miyako says.
The couple held the ceremony of betrothal at 8 p.m.
Nov. 16 at the Kadoya Inn, Shimabara, Kyoto, with Miss Okura and two go-betweens
present. Futabayama at the time was recuperating in Kyoto from amoebic
dysentery he suffered while tourney Manchoukuo.
Miss Okura will leave the Nikkatsu Company on March
1 to run a hotel in Osaka which she recently bought for ¥30,000 says
the Miyako. The wedding will take place after Miss Okura leave Nikkatsu.
Futabayama said Sunday at the Kokugikan Sumo Bowl
that he was not yet thinking of marrying but admitted that Miss Okura visited
him often at his training camp and that he saw her at Kyoto last Fall.
The popular champion wrestler was rumored at one time to be engaged to
the 23-year-old daughter of his sumo teacher Tatsunami.