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In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Cardinal Wolsey a pageant was given in his native town, of Ipswich. It was being presented
in front of the Tudor House, Christchurch Mansion, now a public museum. Our picture shows a scene during the dress rehearsal. (Times copyright).
AUGUST 30th, 1930.
FIRST DUTY OF WOMAN.
To be Charming, says M. Clemenceau's Daughter.
"Women's Arst duty is to "be charming." That is the opinion given by Madamo Madeleine Cle- menceau Jacquemaire, daughter of the late Georges Clemencenu, when asked her ideas on the modern woman's insistence on sex equality.
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
DUKE AND STAGE BEAUTY. DIVORCE ENDS A MODERN ROMANCE.
London, July 28. One of the greatest modern ronances of the peorage of Great] Britain and Ireland went to its final ebapter and ultimate smash a Scottish the other day when court gave a divorce to the Duke! of Leinster from hia Duchess on the grounds of her misconduct,
Starting in beauty, the story
"The girl of to-day makes a mis-ended in bleak sordidness. It be- take in trying to rival men in sports, in the arts, in business," declared the fascinating daughter of "The Tiger."
"Women have their own sphere, I, who am half American (my mother was a native of the United States, you know) am wholly French in my conviction that women should be charming, first and foremost.
"The great women of the past used their intellectual gifts to ac- centuate their feminine charms.
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The
gan amid all the glamor of the London stage.. 'It ended in the gloomy court room of the Edin- burgh Court of Session. woman in the case had boxed the compass from the dreary London suburb of Brixton to wearing the golden strawberry leaves of a great peeress and then back to Brixton, become more dreary than
ever.
W
Back in 1913, in the happy-go- lucky days before the war, one of the reigning buds of the London stage was May Etheridge. She had a big part in "Princess Ca price" at the Shaftesbury Theatre and was the toast of the town for' her charming youth, her dewy loveliness, her unimpaired inno cence. All the gilded young men of her time were head over heelsi in love with her. They bombarded her with flowers. They filled the front rows of the theatre night) after night. They languished for a nod of recognition from her shapely head. They were over joyed when she deigned to sup with them.
Considered Great Catch, Twenty-one years before, she had been born in humble circum-
The Duches of Leinster, left, once a celebrated London stage beauty, has been divorced by her husband, the Duke of Leinster, upper right! At lower right is shown Stanley Wil- liams, a chef, the man who came into the life of the Duchess when she separated from her husband.
stances in Brixton and had attend-the Irish Guards. He was a very charged, she tried to do away with
badly herself. ed school until she was 13, when valiant soldier and was
she got a minor job on the stage. wounded five times. In the mean-i Quick action by the police and - She was quick; she was intelligent time his, wife returned to the doctors saved her life and she was She rapidly forged to the front. stage and took a leading part in a then arrested in a charge of at- When she had an almost star part, play with a very significant name tempting to commit suicide. At one of her most ardent admirers Watch our Step. In 1922 her trial she strenuously denied was Lord Fitzgerald, then in an her husband became Duke of Lein- trying to kill herself, saying she Irish Guards regiment. He was ster, his elder brother having died had only pretended, so considered a great matrimonial
as tu
catch, being a younger son of the in an accident, But as far back frighten Williams. The court held Duke of Leinster, the Premier as 1918 the new Duke had sold his that the charge had been made Duke Marquess and Earl of Ire-reversionary interest in the ducal out, but said she was going to be estates in Ireland for £60,000 and given another chance. She would an annuity of £1,000. It became se released in charge of friends The shy and impressionable, known that he and his Duchess who would take her to a quiet but very good-looking, dark-hair- did not get along and were
land.
the stage and one fine day they
magistrate, added he would put ·
Wit and stimulating conversation work double damage when accom- panied by a bewitching smile and ed young officer fell madly in love gradually drifting apart. He place in the country. But the a flush of dark eyes.
with May Etheridge and she re-lived mainly in Scotland. She re-
her on probation and suspend sen- ciprocated his affection. For love mained in England.
tence for two years, to prevent The blue stocking, the pre-
of him she refused an advan Discovered in Dying Condition. her from falling into bad habits cieuse, as we call her in France,tageous three years contract on
There followed an astonishing or getting into bad company. is always conscious of sex, com- petition, forgetting that our great
gave aristocratic society a real interval. She literally dropped Pate, poor, and old-looking, a Ninon de Lenclos won many a thrill by announcing they had been out of sight. Her very existence mere wraith of her former lovely battle of wits, yet always re-
quietly married at a registrar's seemed forgotten. Then carls self, she was taken away by her membered to be lovely. Cleopatra,
office. They spent their honey-last spring her name appeared friends. Aspasia, Russian Catherine were
moon in Canada on a hunting and on the first page able diplomats, outranking the
dshing trip. In 1914 n son was papers. She had been discovered men in skillful statesmanship, but
born to them,-Gerald, now lying half clothed and uncon they were far too wise to Baunt Marquis of Kildare and heir to the seious from their superforities.
Dukedom.
"One of the outstanding exam- ples of the ideal woman, to my mind, was Madame Roland, the heroine of the French revolution. This beautiful woman was the power behind the Girondist party the moderates who tried to stem the tide of blood and vengeance.
"Madame Roland was content. to sink her identity in that of her husband. She wrote, Because
of the news-
The final chapter was swift and sure. The Duke of Leinster filed
gas poisoning in a suit against her in Scotland, ask- fat in Brixton, where she had ing for divorce and naming Wil-. When the war broke out, Lord been living with a chef named liams as co-respondent. The ac- Fitzgerald, like his elder brother, Stanley Williams. They had had tion was not defended and the Lord Desmond Fitzgerald, at once a quarrel about the use of a wire- court quickly decided in favour of went to the front, serving with less set and, in his absence, it was the plaintiff.
we should certain privileges that ill become men are proud, fierce, clever and glory and authority; learned, they should be our mas- seek no other supremacy than to them. If they would wield the ters. Without women, they would be pre-eminent in their hearts. I vast influence that their sisters of be neither virtuous, loving, kind would never ask more than that!' the past did, they can learn many
"Women to-day often dispute secrets from them." or happy. So let them retain their
A MORTAR BATTERY OF THE FORTIES: THE PAST
RECALLED.
The Woolwich Garrison will shortly hold its second Searchlight Tattoo. Our picture, taken during the dress rehearsal, shows "The Mortar Battery" presented by the personnel of the Military
College of Science. It is based on the picture by C. Hunt depicting the shooting of a mortar battery on Woolwich Common in 1840. (Times copyright),