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ACTRESSES BANNED

GUARDS OFFICER FORCED TO RESIGN ENGAGED TO COMEDIENNE United B.A.—By Telegraph Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Should an officer of the Guards or the household cavalry sacrifice his Army career if he falls in love with au actress? is a question which has arisen once more, Francis Francis, aged 23, a millionaire who was a subaltern in the Royal Horse Guards, be coming engaged to Sunny Jarman, an American musical comedy star, who is playing at the Palace Theatre. In accordance with the custom of the guards, Francis immediately resigned his commission, the military authorities still regarding an actress as In the category of “rogues and vagabonds.” However, as actresses are invited to the royal enclosure at Ascot and to the Royal garden party at Buckingham Palace, and created Dames of the British Empire, as for instance Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Ellen Terry, and even elected to the House of Cc.nmons, as, for instance, Mrs. Hilton Phillipson, it is strange that the Guards should consider themselves contaminated by associating with the husband of an actress.

Francis takes the decision philosophically. He says: “It is a rule: I accept it.”

Members of the theatrical profession, however, resent it as a form of snobbery.

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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11

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ACTRESSES BANNED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11

ACTRESSES BANNED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 840, 7 December 1929, Page 11