ALLEGED LIBEL BY FILM
■_ ".. .♦ . WOMAN'S DENIAL OF LIFE IN A ROYAL HAREM. Lucia Princess Toussoun recently sued the Transatlantique Film Company, Ltd., in the King's Bench Division, London, for damages Vfor alleged libel in a kinematograph. film. .'She complained also of a number of booklets and posters in which it was stated that the film depicted incidents in her life.- ' Mr. Rawlinson, K.C., said the question to be decided was merely one of dam-' ages. The plaintiff was an Englishwoman; She married a Mr. M'Guire, who died. She was afterwards staying ln .Egypt, and there/in 1896 met Prince Said Toussoun, whom she married. He was_ the eldest son of Prince Toussoun Pasha He died in 1898, and she became m, wlf l of Captain Gilbert Turner. «r£ « m com P la ined of was entitled the Purple Iris," and purported to depict her life and adventures in a royal harem. She had, however, lived the life pt a European lady, and had not been tne T inmate of a harem. The defendants said they purchased the film from the United States. It was called there "Under tho Crescent." ■ . ~ The hearing was adjourned.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 5
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192ALLEGED LIBEL BY FILM Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3061, 24 April 1917, Page 5
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