The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-13
SIX ACTRESS EXPRESSES
 BARRED FROM CORONATION.

There are six Peeresses whom tile King ofEngland will not allow 70 be present at his coronation. It seems a case of so near yet so far from Royal approval, to be a peeress and be barred from the coronation. This privilege Is denied them in spite of tho statutory right which they of course have, to be pre- sent on that occasion.
 The six women who arc eligible, but not desirable were all actresses whose anti-nuptial fame was not pleasing to the King and Queen.
 The six actress pceresses are the Counteses of Orkney of Clancarty. and of Berkeley. the Marchionesse of Head fort. the Countess of Stamford, and Dorothy, Marchioness of Ailrsbury.
 The New York Journal has the follow ing sketches of them:
 The Countes of Orkney Is no other than the once famous Gaiety girl. popu- larly known as the child" who figured for so long Tn burlesque under the name of Connie Gilchrist. Her mother was 6 laul dress. At a very early age she became an artists model and sat tC F'rith and to other members of the Roya Academy, and finally burst upon the Gaiety audience in a skipping rope dance which took the town by storm
 The late Lord Lonsdale finished his terrible career in the most frightful  stead which he had presented to her, and she was with him when he died, while the old Duke of Beaufort was so devoted to her that not only did he i'm poverish himself for her sake, but actual ly officiated in the role of heavy father at her wedding to the almost penniless Earl of Orkney. to whom she brought a fortune of $4000o a year, accumulated tn the decade that had elapsed since Aer memorable debut in the skipping rope Aance.
 The Countess of Clancarty will be re- membered as a favorite of the music hall Etage on which she figured as Belle Bill ton, and her somewhat stormy career was set forth in the proceedings which the late Earl of Clancarty compelled his son, then Lord Dunlo, to take against her in the divorce court with a view to securing a dissolution of the marriage. The evidence was of the most extraordi- nary character.
 But before the court had time to pro- nounce any decision in accordance there with the trial was brought to a sudden close by the petitioner himself. who de- ciared that he had been forced against wishes to institute divorce proceedings against his wife, that he was still very fond of her, and that he wished to with. draw them. On leaving court Lord Dunlo, as he was then, his wife ant kOunK WerInelmeF, WnO udU Dccu CiSc< es correspondent. dined together to cele brate the, to them, satisfactory conciu' sion of the case.
 The Marquis of Headfort's marriage tC another Gaiety girl rejoicing in the name of Rosie Boote is of toe recent character and has been to much exploited in the newspapers to need more than passing reference. In consequence of his having contracted the union King Edward com peIled him to leave the army, in which he held a commission as officer of the regiment of Horse Guards.
 The Countess of Berkeley will be re- nembered in America as Edith Bran bon, who formed part of the so-called company of "Charmers," organized by lhe Earl of Lonsdale, with Violet Came ron as star, to tour through the United States. The venture did not prove finan- EIally successful.
 Dorothy, Marchioness of Ailesbury, was known on the music hall stage as Dollie Tester, when she won the heart and the hand of the late Marquis, who enjoyed the well-deserved reputation of being quite the most disreputable member and the bleckest sheep of the British peerage. He was popularly known by the name of the "coster Marquis on account of his foul language, coarse manner and extraordinary attire, and wound up a most stormy career by being warned