A THEATRICAL MARRIAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 254, 20 October 1908, Page 4

A THEATRICAL MARRIAGE.

I"EEI!A<.iE CASE RECALLED. London, .September 4. 'Another member of the English aristocracy has selected his bride from the stage. Wry quietly, the day before yesterday, Karl Foulettj was married to Miss Sylvia Liliau Storey, who has be.-n a member of the Caicty company, acting as understudy to -Miss Olive M.iy in "Havana." The bride comes of an artistic family. Her J'atlier, who is nephew to Mr. <«. A. Storey, K.A., h to-day .well-known to managers as a good scene pain tor as well lis a clever actor and dancer; Miss Storeys mother was uUo airaetress. The bride of this, week is the ninth actress who has recently made u notable marriage. The others are:— : Miss I'aiuille Clill'onl, nmrried to the i Hon. f/Vlldltu r?sl lJl'llce, eldest .sou of Lord Abei'tlare. I

Miss Kva Cairingluii, now Lady de Clifford.

Miss Elsie Kay, who married Mr. fiouaid McAndrew.

•Miss Hilda Harris, "whose, husband, Mr. Drumniond, is a well-known. Londm banki'T. . Miss Uarbara Deane married -Mr. T>asil Loder.

.Miss Eva llillisdon is Ihu wife of the Marquis de Florae.

Miss Denise Orme is now the wife ol the linn. -I. P>. Yarde-Buller. Miss -Kdna. May lately mumed Mr i><car Lcwisohn.

1l is noted that MUs Ntorev is the li>M actress to marry a peer since MisFrances Donnelly married the present Lord Ashbnrton in JIMMj. •Lord -Ponlett. wlio was born in iSStt. succeeded his lather as seventh rart in 1K!)1). It will lie remembered iliat on the death <>/ the sixth peer in that year a. claim to the title was entered bv William Turnonr Thomas, who had been familiar for some time as'an organgrinder in the streets of London, carrying about with him $ placard on which lie described himself as Viscount Hillton. The circumstances lending up to the rl.ihii Mini one of the romances nf the peerage. The sixth earl married, as his lir-t wife, in 18-W. Kli/.abeth Lavinia Newman. daughter •>[ a Landport pilot. The tirsf wile reg.3tered the birth of a son af'ler her liltsband had left her. It was this child who afterwards became the organgrinder. and claimed the peerage. The claim was investigated by the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords, and they decided, in l!Kt!{, that the elaim had not been made out. but that William .l.olm Lvdstnu. the present peer,! who was the sou of the sixth earl by a' third marriage,-had made good his ti'le, as the seventh earl. The present holder of the title is just 2.) years of age;! his bride is only 1S ? but notwithstand- j ing her youth she has had considerable experience of theatrical life. When .she | was only eight years old she appeared | with ln-r father in a representation of '•Hip X n n Winkle" at the Kennington Theatre. Since then she has toure;l j with Mr. Seymour Micks, and she has been a member of Mr. Meerbohm Tree's! company at His' Majesty's Theatre. !