One of the most painful eases posure of the Toose crile of mora prevails in a certain class of hig occupied the Divorce Court th case in which Lady Granville is seeking to recover from Mr.
recently divorced her, the care of her child. Lord Granville Gordo to whom the petitioner is now was the ce-respondent in the di ree andthecustudy of the child was given to the husband. Now t ady Granville declares that there was an understanding between herself and her husband that rhe should have the child, of which she declares Granville' and not he is the father.
i in the case to differentia that her first husband "Erie" Gordon, knew when he married her that she was the mistress of her cousin Lord Granville, and knew that the immoral relations between the cousins continued to exist after he never-close personal friend of Tt is only fair to Mr.
Gordon to state that he stoutly denies this, and declares that, before the time when he instituted the di ceedings he had ne suspicion of hi infidelity. What is certain, however, that some of Lady Granville Gordon's wit-nestes—relatives and others—were, accord ing to their own statements, in the habit of thehouse, though they fully believed that it was openly conducted on the lines suggested by Lady Granville—the lover, the wife, and the mari complaisant all living on amicable terms, Mr. Justice Jeune did not spare some of these witnesses in his running comments on their evidence.
Miss Kate Vaughan and the Gaiety.
By a sad coincidence Miss Kate Vaughan died in poverty at Johannesburg on the very day of the production at the old i won to give place to the new: ject intended to recall the glories of all the years during which Mr. Fiollingshead's sacred lamp of bur-Jesque' has burnt at that Theatre. The little production in question is the work of Mr. George Grossmith, Junior, and is called "The Linkinan," and it consists of snatches from the most successful of the Durlesques produced there during the past twenty-five or thirty years. Tu what playgoers now in their forties still regard as the palmiest days of Gniety burlesque the leading lights were Edward Terry. Royce, Nelly Farren, and Kate ighan, the matchless duncer; and their performance in the "Forty Thieves? is cleverly mimicked the present production. Mr. Lionel Mackinder being especially successful imitation of Edward Terry. Terry by the way is the only one of the quartette who can still be congentulated on prosperity and health. Both Nelly Farren and Royce have been long broken in health, and now Kate Vaughan is gone. in circumstances of especial sadness. She was married, it may be remembered, to the Hon. Colonel Frederick Wellesley. uncle of Karl Cowley, but was divorced from him two or three eats ago.
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