ACTRESS' EGYPTIAN HUSBAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 September 1919, Page 6

ACTRESS' EGYPTIAN HUSBAND.

The British Govei-Ilment took a role in the domestic drama 01-‘ fire princess Ola Hassan, fornlel'lY L‘-/liss Pearl Ola Humphrey of Oakland, and to-day as a result there lies in a London bank the sum of £1,000,000 to the credit of the former actress, says the San Fl-a 1cisco Bulletin. Word has just been re» eeived by the Princess" friends from New York, where she is staying. that her Egyptian husband, a cousin of the deposed Khedive of Egypt, has settled this Sum in payment for all claims she made against him in her divorce suit.

Thus ends a court battle, dramatic and spectacular, which has raged in American, Egyptian, and English courts for the past five yoars., The fact that her blue-blooded -husband became an alien enemy when his cousin entered the Turkish Army, against the British, gave Great Britain control of his property, and 4:1. settlemcn/r was arranged through the British authorities. As soon as she can the Princess Hassan will go to Cairo to obtain :1 final decree of divorce and frcedo:.'l under the Egyptian laws. She has been granted a divorce in England It was life in a. harem such as her husband insisted that she should espouse that caused the break. The couple were married in 1911 in "London, and late in Cairo under :1 Mohammedan’ ceremony_ -