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 663 WORLD OP WOMEN The Duchess of Marlborough Lallie Charles 1 assesses one of the l)(st private zoos in tlie kingdom. A par- ticularly strong friendship, by the way, exists between Queen Alexandra and the hii chess of Marl- borough. Many are the lav'ours which lur Majesty has bestowed u pon the Due hess, who, apart from attracting the Queen by her philanthropic work, a charming companion of premier actress of America. By her clever acting in such l^eces as " The Little Minister," " Peter Tan," and " Quality Street," she has made the name of J. M. Barrie famous through - out the States. Ridinq and reading form thi? chief recreations of Miss Adams, whose home is in New York, L*dy Arttiur r^ijet l.aiipfirr I has often proved herself by reason of her brilliant conversational powers. THE MARCHIONESS OF ORMONDE As befits the wife of one of the keenest of yachts- ■^^ men, the Marchioness of Ormonde is a great lover of sport and outdoor life. Her marriage dates back to 1876, when she was nineteen years of age. She is a daughter of the first Duke of Westminster, and was known as one of the greatest beauties of the day. Even now she is a most attractive-looking woman, in spite of the fact that she is a grand- mother, her eldest daughter. Lady Beatrice Butler, who married Lieut. -General Pole-Care w in 1 90 1, having one son and two daughters. The Marchioness's other daughter. Lady Constance Butler, is still unmarried, and spends most of her time with her mother at their Irish home, Kilkenny Castle, one of the oldest inhabited houses in the world, many of the rooms being as they were eight hundred years ago. Boating and walking comprise the Marchioness's re- creations when at Kilkenny, which she only leaves for the Cowes week, and for the Riviera during the winter months. Like most popular people, the Marchioness answers to a pet name, and has been known as " Lilah." MISS MAUDE ADAMS IVyiiss Maude Adams, whose real Annie Adams, a celebrated actress in the States. who was the leading lady in a Salt Lake City stock company. She made her first appearance on the stage as a baby in arms. For years she played children's parts throughout the West, and when she was sixteen made her first appearance on the New York stage at the Grand Opera House. Miss Adams steadily forged ahead, and shortly before her twentieth birth- day began to play leading lady with John Drew. Success followed success, and that astute f.heatrical manager Charles Frohman pro- moted her to the rank of " star," with the result that, at the age of twenty-seven, she was earning for him something like ;^6o,ooo a year. That was in 1899, and Miss Adams still holds the position The Marchioness of Ormonde Lafai etU all her life name is the en. is the daughter of Maude ^damj LADY ARTHUR PAGET I ADY Arthur Paget has, since her marriage '-^ to General Sir Arthur Paget in 1878, been' one of the shining lights of English society, and, before it, was one of the most successful and intellectual American women who have erT lived in London. She is the only daughter of the late Par an Stevens and Mrs. Marietta Stevens of New York, and has always been noted for her beauty. After her marriage she became famous as a hostess, entertaining many Royalties, and used to be in former years the mainspring of countless bazaars and other charitable enter- prises. Her most noted triumph was the Masque of Peace and War, given in the early days of the Boer War at the Hay- market Theatre. Members of the peerage were on the stage, as well as in the stalls, and £7,000 was taken at this record entertainment. Her splendid exertions, too, on behalf of the hospital ship " Maine " caused her to receive the personal thanks of Queen Victoria. In appearance, Lady Paget is tall and slight, with dark hair ana brunette colouring. She is the mother of three sons and one daughter, and lives at 35, Belgrave Square, which her husband has filled with big game trophies. HENRIETTA RAE LIenrietta Rae, who in private life is Mrs. ^^ Ernest Normand, exhibited her first picture at the Royal Academy in 1880, when she was twenty years of age. Her first popular success was that famous picture which is to be found in all quarters of the globe to-day, " Psyche at the Throne of Venus." This picture was exhibited in 1895, after Mrs. Normand had been " painting hard," to quote her own words, " for nearly twenty years." Therefore, " out of my own experience," she says, '* I can say to any young artist who may be depressed through lack of immediate success — Don't give up because you have failed to get that commend- ation for which you had hoped. Even when the cup of succe.ss was cfifered to me there was a big, bitter drop mingled with its sweet- ness, for one of the critics facetiously de- scribed my picture as ' a glorified Christmas card ! ' " Mrs. Nor- mand's husband is also Hemiett* Ri a painter of repute. tt^'inOtn* &• o
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