GUARD AND ACTRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1929, Page 5

GUARD AND ACTRESS

A QUESTION OF INTEREST., 'United Press Association. —By Electrir Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. Should an officer of the Guards or Household Cavalry sacrifice his army career if he falls in love with an actress, is a question which has- arisen once more. Francis Francis, the twenty-three-year-old millionaire, who was a subaltern in the Royal Horse Guards, became engaged to Sunny .Jarman, an American musical comedienne, playing at the Palace Theatre. Francis, in accordance with the custom of the Guards, immediately resigned' His commission, the military authorities still regarding actresses as in the entogorv of “rogues and vagabonds” hut as actresses are invited to the Royal ■enclosure at Ascot, the garden party at Buckingham Palace and created Dames of the British Empire, for instance Al,a dame Melba and Ellen iciiy, and even elected to the Commons, for instance Mrs Phillipson, it is stiango the Brigade of Guards should consider itself contaminated by associating with the husband of an actress. Francis takes the decision philosophically. He savs: “ It is a rule: 1 accept it: Members of the theatrical profession, however resent it as a form of snobbery.