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...must to all women, Death came last week to May Etheridge, 42, former Duchess of Leinster. Her grace vanished, her beauty gone. Her Former Grace was found sprawled across a bed in Brighton with a bottle of poison by her side. Since 1930 she had been living on $25 a week provided by the Duke's family with the understanding that she would not return to the stage and would make no effort to see her son. the present Marquess of Kildare and heir to the Dukedom...
Because her predecessors were ladies of considerable theatrical importance, May Etheridge was widely hailed as "the first chorus girl duchess." This was a quibble. She had been a chorus girl since the age of 13, but when she met Lord Edward Fitzgerald she had just become leading lady of Princess Caprice at the Shaftesbury, and he was not yet the Premier Duke, Marquess and Earl of Ireland...
...ancestral estates have always had more honors than cash behind them. The pair spent their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...
...cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother and new sister-in-law, the Duke & Duchess of Kent, flew into Jamaica from Haiti, settled down to wait for tardy Gloucester...
...your class goes to war," roared Scot McGovern at the Government Bench, "I hope the workers will use their rifles on the ruling classes! . . . We pay King George ?10,750 per week*. . . We pay ?25,000 yearly to the Duke and Duchess of Kent- or a shilling per minute!- and when a child comes they will get ?10,000 more. . . . I tell you that instead of spending still more money on the King's Silver Jubilee, black flags should be hung out as mourning for the common people who are being destroyed...