Miss Marie Lloyd, the well-known comedienne, was recently served with a summons to attend the High Court to serve as a juror in the Divorce Court.
Interviewed after she had completed her performance at the Pal-radium, she said, with a smile: "I don't think I could sit long enough. I am quite sure I could not si through a long divorce case. If it was left to me they would get off, whether it was in the police court or anywhere else—beeause men are such nice creatures—for everything bar murder.
"T have only been in the police court once, and then they gave me a seat and a glass of water. What I want to know is this—out of all the millions of women in the country, why pick upon me?"
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