Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-02-09 | Page 2 | An Obstacle to Presentation

AN OBSTACLE TO PRESENTATION Tho late Sir Henry Irving was sev- oral times Invited by King Edward VII, when Prince of Wales, to dine at Marlborough House. But, although honored by tho crown with a knight- hood in, tokin of appreciation of his art yet ho died without ever hining attained the dlsU action of prosontation at court, owinrj to the rulo, dating from hundreds of years ago, which bars out members of tho theatrical profession. Among tho obstacles which it is necessary to oamerato Is that of divorce. di-vorce. The fact that a women has figured fig-ured in a divorce suit, either as plaintiff plain-tiff or as defendant, renders her prcs-ontntlon prcs-ontntlon at any European court a mat-tor mat-tor of extiomo dlmculty. During tho reign of Queen Victoria, the only dl-orceo dl-orceo whom she permitted to appear ap-pear at court was the present Duke of Marlborough's mother, the Marchlon-oss Marchlon-oss of Blandford, whom she had n known from childhood, and for whoso K. m matrimonial unhapplness she manl- i le fested the most profound sympathy, i, fg&rj All other divorced womon were ex- .- -rzii eluded, no matter how blameless their : f&a conduct' and how Imperative tho con- ?ri ditlons that compelled thorn to seek fittu the dissolution of their mafrlago. fiTtk i The Munsey. U&'k on Ute tl