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Show ! " 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 NEW MARQUIS AND MARCHIONESS I '(By Milton Bronncr, European Mana ger N E. A. LONDON ian 'lipid baa Jusi add 1 ed to the ranks of Englilsh nobility an othet former stage beauty the new .la 1 chionoss of Queen.-b. 11 Three years ago, under roffla I circumstances, she was wooed and won by the young Vtocounl Drumlanrig, I who at the time was Just of age HONORARY TITLE His title of viscount as more or less honorary. It bclnn ihe handle giv en the oldest son of a marquis. There was little or no money in the family. Furthermore, his father was only 48, so it Beemed a safe bof that It would I be years and years before his wife could wear the strawberry leaves or Whatever golden tiara it is that a mar chloness puts on her hair on i'nla occasions oc-casions And then the marquis died sudchn lv in Johannesburg, South Africa. The new marquis and marchioness are now traveling In South America They have n 1 year-old daughter. The younc husband was wounded sc verely during the war and afterwanN MtflpR had a post In the food ministry. His f I wife was Irene Richards, daughter of pW a London mill owner She Is not only MS? pretty, but highly talented She stud BE led singing under Jean de Reszke. She BR got her lirst big chance on the stag Irffifff when. -fter only three rehearsals, she Betook Be-took Ihe star part in a pla al thp Prince Of Wales theater She wau only 18 when .-he took a leading part m "Theodore and Co." Ssjpij Actress peeresses arc quite common over here. VHt Just to mention recent alliances of this nature, MlSB E ie Parew of Daly's Lhei ter married R 'mn in 1915. Shi la now Lad., si Oswald, her bus-band bus-band Inning succeeded to the title. In 191 Lord Edward Fitzgerald mar ried Uis M;, Etherldge and Lord Dangan, heir of Earl Cowley, married I I Pearl Aufrere. Miss Connie Gilchrls' 4 i is now the countess of Orkney, Miss Ueiie iiiiton became Lad) Clancarty, Miss Bvs Carrlngton married Baron de Clifford and Miss Anna Robinsou married the fifth Lord Roslyn. B |