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RUSS BUILD LARGEST GAS STATION | Forming an impressive pat tern against the landscape, a huge natural gas pipeline Is under construction at the An- gren coal fields in Russia, When completed, it will be the Hole In Ground On Theatre Site By SIDNEY TAYLOR She married the Earl of Orkney LONDON (Reuters) -- A large hole in the ground Is all that re-| mains of the Gaiety Theatre, But | its ghosts haunt London, | For this was the theatre that set world standards for musical | comedy. This was the theatre whose lovely young women in Edwardian days brought new blood to the British aristocracy. | A tall , eight-storey office block | is to go up In its place at the| corner of the Strand and Ald- wych, John Hollingshead, who had worked as a reporter with Charles Dickens, opened the the- atre Dec, 21, 1868, He invented | matinees, brought Gilbert and Sullivan together, introduced Sa- rah Bernhardt, the can-can and | pantomime, MADE FORTUNE In 18 years, he made the equiv | alent of $600,000, a tremendous | fortune in those days, out of mu-| sie, comedy and pretty, vivacious | girls with long skirts and yards) of frilly, frothy underskirts, | In spite of raised Victorian eye. brows, everything was terribly 0 world's largest natural gas sta- tion, producing 2.3 billion euble meters of gas each year, The i gas will be supplied to the An- gren power station 2% miles away. | in 1892, when she was 20, Fascinating Gertie Millar be- | came the second wife of the Earl of Dudley, a former governor | general of Australia, As a child, | she had known what It was to sell beer bottles to get money for a gallery seat, Her first husband, Lionel Monckton, the composer, wrote her best songs. The one the young bloods liked best was: I'm Such a Silly When the Moon Comes Out, UNHAPPY ENDING ' She sald afterwards that her, second marriage was a "life of | bliss." Not all Gaiety girls were so fortunate, Olive May married two aristocrats--Lord Victor Pa- get, heir presumptive to his brother, the Marquess of An- glesey, and afterwards the Earl | of Drogheda. Both ended In di-| vorce, | Eleanor Souray became the wife of Viscount Torrington in| 1910 after her race horse had) beaten his at Ostend, After di. vorce and bankruptcy, she gas sed herself, leaving a note stat ing: "Everything is my own proper. He established the dignity fault." of the chorus girl, treated her as May Etheridge had just won| a lady, and called her the Galety her first part when the Duke of | girl, Leinster's heir, Lord Edward In 1886, big, handsome George Fitzgerald, fell In love with her, Edwardes came along and with His family promptly sent him on him the birth of musical comedy|a world tour. But in 1013 he mar. | and the dawn of the golden age ried her. She became the Duch.| in London theatreland. {ess of Leinster, but the marriage | His girls were the glamorous was not a success and she com- forerunners of the Ziegfield Fol- mitted suicide, les and the Cochran Young| Eleven years later, the duke Ladies. | married another Galety girl, Den. | The Galety was synonymous (ise Orme, former wide of the with nights of carefree pleasure third Lord Churston. fn gas-lit London, Its buxom,| Miss Orme's famous song at wasp-waisted beauties were the(the Galety and other theatres supreme type of English comell.|Wwas No One Ever Marries Me. ness. They were overflowing with|But she made three wealthy mar- Mfe but contribed to look demure, |rlages, She now Is 72, Three of Edwardes clothed them in|her children are the Duchess of "mysterious femininity' By| Bedford, the Countess of Cadogan | modern standards, they were a and Lady Ebury, former wife of good deal too fat, wore far too many garments and let their hair grow too long -- right down to their waists In fact, Though fans and faints were then the fashion for women, these| girls certainly tempered high spirits with plenty of common sense. MARRIAGE WANTED When stage-door johnnies with luxuriant whiskers bore them off in hansom cabs to supper with with champagne at Roman. o's or Rule's, uppermost in their minds as they sat behind screens, surrounded with flowers, was marriage to a title--but nothing| less than marriage. | The stage door at the Galety was the acknowledged back en- trance to the peerage, Sometimes a young nobleman would book a seat in the theatre for the entire run of a play. Not all the Galety girls had to be able to sing and dance well, the fifth Baron Ebury, TWO GAIETIES The original Galety was pulled down In 1903 to make way for | road widening, but a second Gal | ety opened nearby In the same year, The last curtain fell on Feb, 25, 1989, Each death of a onetime Gal: | ety girl revives memories of the | era. Rosle Boote, the Marquess of Headfort's mother, died last Aug. ust aged 80, She was the star of The Runaway Girl, When she married the fourth marquess in 1901, she left the stage and never returned to it. Sylvia Grey, known as "the girl with the loveliest ankles," | had other ideas than marrying into the nobility, She became the wife of Dick Fenwick, a wealthy Australian cattle farmer, and was almost 93 when she died last May. Many theatrical stars who| Some just walked onto the stage made their names at the Galety looking beautiful, There were in its last phase are still alive-- plenty of tuneful little songs to Zena Dare, now playing the pro- sing, but no highly cultured voice|fessor's mother in My Fair Lady, was needed for choruses like "yip-I-addi-1-ay"' and "Ta-ra-ra- boom-de-ay." Connie Gilchrist was one of the first to marry into the peerage. 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