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But panic really overtook her when she remembered that Fuad, who had always hated Ibrahim Hassan, was now on the Egyptian throne. Ola rushed back to Paris, where she had an apartment. She trembled with rage when she discovered that all the jewelry she'd stashed away in her late hubby's safe deposit box was gone. The some given to her prior to her marriage, were worth a fortune. An inquiry disclosed that a member.

of the Egyptian government had re- moved the jewels, Ola went straight to the Egyptian Minister in Paris only to have his head lackey tell her he was "busy." For three days she paced the draftytA halls outside the Embassy offices, and finally a polite little note was sent out to her. The Minister thought he'd be permanently, "busy" as far as she was concerned. And, furthermore, he doubted very much whether the royal family would ever return the jewels. Confir-' mation of that was received by Ola a few days later in a frosty communique from her in-laws which advised her to forget about the gems and go back where she came from. i OLA spent her last few dollars on a -one-way ticket to London, and the welcome legal embrace of her at- torney, Sir Charles Russell.

Sir Charles, I a doughty Britisher, with the bulldog ten- acity of a Churchill, started the rounds of litigation that have been filling legal text- books for years. i Months of that time were spent in the Egyptian courts merely trying to prove I the legality of the marriage. King Fuad, she had a gentleman-in-waiting list as long as the Magna Charta. By far the most persistent member among her swooners was Prince Ibrahim Hassan, an Egyptian "she met during a veddy-veddy London supper party given by Lord and Lady Winchester. He offered her a royal title, all the baubles she could wear, and a long-term lease on the Sphinx if she would marry him.

Ola refused. Determined to lead Hassan a merry chase, she packed a few ermines and coyly skipped off to Paris, with the Prince a scant boat behind her. After pleadingly pursuing her through Gay Paree, Ola took one look at the engagement ring he'd dragged (and we do mean dragged!) along with him, and succumbed. She broke her stage contract and they were married in the London registrar's office, with the U. S.

Consul, Col. Westcott, acting as witness, and acknowledging the full legality of the marriage. That was in 1907. The couple didn't take up residence on a river boat on the Nile. The Prince worked with the Egyptian Intelligence Service so the Hassans traveled through Europe for six months following their wedding.

WHEN the time finally came for the Prince to bring his Princess back to the old Egyptian homestead, he warned her that the welcome she'd receive from his relatives might be a little less cordial than she expected a comment Ola found to be a classic understatement. Although she'd taken the precaution of converting to the Moslem faith, Ola couldn't have scored with the Hassans if she'd been wearing Allah on her arm. Cold and aloof to the point of rudeness, his family made her the local Wallis War-field. Her two soie "allies" among" the Hassans were Princess Ef ite, who resided in Turkey, and Khedive Abbas Hilmi, who often received Ola, but never gave her the official accolade. Six months of this and the newlyweds were ready to throw in the sceptre.

They went back to Europe where they lived happily but not forever after. In Spain, in 1918, Hassan died, leaving his royal lady without a yacht to her name. Ola continued to live in her customary handsome fashion until her Own funds gave out. She became desperate when she realized she was down was demonstrated to doubting Mayfairites recently by none less a personage than 74-year-old Princess Hassan, American-born widow of the late Prince Ibrahim Hassan, and aunt-by-marriage of King Farouk of Egypt. The plight of the Princess came to light when she was carried into New York's Mount Sinai Hospital with a broken shoulder and nary a.

sou in her satcheL The injury she suffered when she tripped over a hole In the moth-eaten carpet In the shabby apartment she inhabits, the Princess said, was nothing compared to the hurt to her pride since she, a Princess, no less, has been forced to live on an $80-per-month American relief check. Particularly when she feels she's entitled to at least one-third of her late husband's estate, valued at the time of his death, she says, at a cool 15 million dollars. And for those who are aware that the Dowager Queen Nazleh of Egypt, widow of King Fuad and a first cousin of Prince Hassan, was a few blocks away occupying a sumptuous Waldorf-Astoria suite while the Princess was starving, and want to know come?" here is the story: NO ONE who knew Princess Hassan when she was Ola Jane Humphry would connect the blonde, vivacious actress with her present-day shabby self. Born In San Francisco to a comfortable but unimaginative middle-class family, Ola's sparkling exuberance made her the toast of Nob Hill in her teens. Her admirers were so numerous that less popular females gossiped that she kept a card file on them.

Brokers' and bankers' sons, actors, socialites, and counts all of them courted Ola pursuing her like panting lap dogs after a half-pound of hamburger. But lurking behind Ola's deceptively docile smile was an astute and unusual characteristic for a young woman of her day a brain-Not yet 20, Ola shoved off to parlay one green pasture into a plushier and downier one, and landed in London. Customarily staid British society gave her a royal welcome. British males were a little more cautious than Yankee swains In their approach, but just as vulnerable to Ola's undisputed charms. In two weeks 5 ,1 under the influence of Queen Nazleh, consistently sabotaged attempts to bring the case before the Royal Court the only where a case concerning the Royal family can be heard.

In 1924, Ola, still an attractive woman, was married again, this time in London to Captain Broadwood, aidede-camp to. the Duke of Connaught. The whole subject of his wife's former marriage and the involved litigation was distasteful to the Captain, and to please him, Ola didn't press the case. But the happiness of her second marriage was short-lived. Capt.

Broadwood died in 1934 and Ola returned to her (Continued on Page 15.