NEW YORK, Oct. 13. (Exclusive) — Joan Crawford, who innocently demanded "what marriage?" when she arrived here a fortnight ago with Franchot Tone, was fooling, after all.

The glamorous screen star and the suave Tone, her favorite escort since she divorced Douglas Fairbanks Jr., were wed secretly in Englewood Cliffs, NJ last Friday, it was learned tonight.

Late tonight it developed a series of Waldorf-Astoria rooms had been turned into bridal quarters. The couple was reached there and Franchot confirmed the news over the telephone.

BOTH VERY HAPPY

“Just say we are both very happy." he said.

“Really now," he drawled, when pressed for more comment, “you can just fill in the lines, cant you?"

Mayor Herbert W. Jenkins, who performed the ceremony in his Englewood Cliffs home, confirmed the news.

“They had a license, so I married 'em,” he said, seemingly unimpressed at his role in bringing to an end one of Hollywood's most talked-of romances.

The two film players and a small group of friends motored to Englewood Cliffs after twice breaking engagements last week to be married at Harrison, NY Westchester County’s Gretna Green, it was learned.

REASON FOR MOVE

The previous engagements were canceled because the secrecy-loving pair thought they were being followed by newspapermen or uninvited friends.

Witnesses to the simple ceremony were Nicholas Schenck, motion-picture magnate, and M. M. Friedman, Hollywood film executive.

Miss Crawford, Mayor Jenkins recalled, wore a blue serge suit and carried a bride's bouquet. "She was smiling and happy."