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Urn Princess Hassan as she is today in cheap room. The dowager Queen NazlL mother of Egypt's King. Bitter Brew of Cairo IONDON Europe only hours Clipper The boulevards and friendly sidewalk cafes of Paris are waiting to welcome you Iess than a day away from U. S. shores! Flying from New York, your vacation abroad begins the moment you step aboard the big.

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Her second husband was Captain Broad wood of England, once aide-de-camp to the Duke of Connaught. He died in 1938, leaving her only $5000. Meanwhile, during her married life with the Captain, Ola had ceased to press her Egyptian claims, because Captain Broad wood didn't like the idea of the thing. In 1941, Ola came to the United States as a refugee from England. Soon afterward she began to receive public help.

1UST why United States taxpayers should support an Egyptian princess might bewilder some folks. Others might lie more interested in Ola's early stage performances. The records show that she was a successful Shakespearean actress, and that she also starred in such plays as The Doll's House, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Camille, in the United States, England and in Australia. Her earnings from these efforts must have lcen sizable, but then, why should an Egyptian princess think money? Ola didn't, apparently, until after her prince died. Then, returning to Paris, she found that the safe in her apartment had been emptied of a fbrtune of jewels, mostly gifts of the prince.

Ola claims the jewels were removed by a representative of the Egyptian Government, for official reasons. After this discovery, she returned to Indon, started litigation, but managed only to have her marriage accepted as legal. Since then, with the exception of the time when she was married to Captain Broadwood. the litigation has continued. Some insiders say the dowager Queen, at present on a tour of the United States, has blocked the payment of the $5,000,000 fortune to Ola.

Certainly the Queen made no effort to span the short distance between her hotel and West 54th street. Nor did Ola attempt a visit to her royal relatives at the Waldorf. 5 HE was born Ola Jane Hum-k phrey, in California some 70 I years ago, and she grew up to be beautiful. So she went on the stage, and, after some' success in the United States, she toured Europe. There, at the turn of the century, she married Prince Hassan, the uncle of Egypt's present King.

And there the story should end, because any girl who marries an Egyptian prince naturally should be wealthy all her life. But Ola isn't wealthy or well-cared for. Instead she has been living in a room on West' 54th Street in New York City and paying her way only because of the taxpayers of the United States. The aunt of Egypt's King has depended for the past five years on monthly $74.93 old age assistance checks which come to her through the New York Welfare Department. Just recently these interesting details were made public, when Princess Hassan blipitcd on a rug, broke her shoulder, and was taken to Mt.

Sinai Hospital for treatment. There she admitted that she couldn't pay for medical or surgical care, even though the mother of Egypt's King, the dowager Queen Nazli. was living in plush luxury not far away in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. OLA met the Egyptian Prince Ibrahim Hassan at a supper party in the Iondon house of Iord and Lady Winchester. Her blonde tcauty stirred the Prince to follow her around Europe, urging that she leave the stage and Ix'come the Princess Hassan.

They were married and lived happily until 1918 when the Prince died rather suddenly in Spain. Just why Ola never provided for her financial future still is a mystery. Ola says: "He didn't leave a will, and, anyway, wills mean nothing under Mohammedan law. My legal matters never have been settled. The Egyptian royal family has been able to postpone all legal action which I have instituted in both British and Egyptian courts." What Ola would like, and what she thinks she deserves, is one-third of her husband's estimated $15,000,000 fortune.

Right now a Wall Street law firm, headed by Brigadier General Roy P. Monahan, is attempting to get it for her. She thinks the United States State Department could settle the case rounu-irip Vorfc Clipper reservations are now available. Con- See your Travel Agent now. X- London Iery'c Travel ty tht WWW TT tlC I 1 service 'M-t service round-trip rVewT CBPP' from Direct con- London No fax on trips to Europe.

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