| Show KING DING TAKES BRIDE I IN ARABIAN NIGHTS' NIGHTS RITUAL w S Sy y l' l a S 6 W j v V U D DI I 0 0 I L I FAROUK BOY KING OF EGYPT EGYPTI I He Be attended wedding ceremony CAIRO Egypt Jan 20 INS Young INS Young King Farouk of Egypt took as his bride the beautiful Farida Panda Zulfikar to today to- to day while day while she peeped at him from behind a curtain in an adjoining room Amid all the romance of the Arabian Nights and the pomp of the pharaohs the year old girl was raised to the throne of Cleo Cleo- patra She was adorned in glittering gowns that cost The marriage rite signaled the start of colorful military and state marriage ceremonies that will last for days And yet yet officially officially Miss Zulfikar was not present at her own wedding But unofficially with the de determination determination determination de- de termination of the very young and the very beautiful she viewed the whole show After a week of rain ancient Cairo was bathed in gleaming sunshine for the royal marriage More than Egyptians en fete and in gala mood jammed the streets for the occasion that many had traveled miles to see Through these gala scenes Farida Farida Farida Fa Fa- Fa- Fa rida drove from her home to royal palace in Farouk's small gray automobile accompanied accompanied accompanied by her father She wore wore a gray coat and skirt small black toque and the traditional Turkish veil later changing to her magnificent magnificent magnificent mag mag- wedding attire Thousands of wildly cheering Egyptians hailed her as she passed With her father she entered the palace and went to the room where she was supposed to wait watt in complete seclusion unseen by byman byman byman man or even by woman attendants attendants attendants attend attend- ants while the simple Moslem rite of signing the marriage con- con Continued on Pale Page Two Column Three M Lt q qI y 1 I f r s t I i IY s 4 r v. v a. FARIDA GIRL QUEEN OF THE TilE NILE while she peeked pecked through curtain I I Egyptian E King Takes Bride in Arabian Nights Nights' Rit Ritual al Continued from Page Ont One tract tract tract-no no other ceremony was called for took for took place in another chamber Her father Youssef Zulfikar Pasha senior justice of the mixed appellate court of Alexandria acting as her witness went to the drawing room and austerely a signed the marriage document With King Farouk Probably neither the bridegroom bridegroom bridegroom bride bride- groom nor the learned judge realize re ra- re- re I alize alIzo that at that moment they were being watched by the eyes of the waiting girl who was herself herself herself her her- self transformed Into Egypt's queen Queen Farida was the second Egyptian queen since Cleopatra In 31 B. B C. C that sirens siren's army was defeated by Caesar and Egypt had no queen until Farouk's mother ascended the throne alongside the late King Faud when he was proclaimed king in 1922 The wedding was the first royal matrimonial event since the days of the pharaohs inasmuch as Fuad already was married when he was handed the scepter Bride in Seclusion The Egyptian beauty saw lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie of her year old regal husband husband hus bus band today The only public ceremony in which she participated was the picturesque procession from her fathers father's home at to The king did not accompany accompany accompany ac ac- ac- ac company her Upon arrival at atthe atthe atthe the palace she took over her new apartments to await the kings king's arrival late this evening While she awaited the king attended a banquet with Egyptian Egyptian tian princes and the newly- newly formed cabinet which was organized organized organized or or- after aCte he forced Premier Nabas Pasha out of office Ina in ina ina a struggle over questions of ot royal prerogative The queens queen's wedding gown own de de- de- de signed in Paris but made in Egypt was magnificent silver magnificent silver lace over satin with an eight- eight yard court train of glistening silver lame and a sheer tulle veil held by a diadem Throngs Pack rack Streets Today was a holiday and Innumerable in innumerable innumerable in- in numerable thousands of Farouk's subjects who have stood by him himIn himin himin in his recent political crisis thronged the streets Tomorrow Boy Scouts and Girl Guides from all parts of f Egypt will give a display in honor of the royal couple and In the evening evening evening eve eve- ning there will be a reception at Abdin palace for high government government government govern govern- ment officials Perhaps the most colorful of all the celebrations will be held Saturday when the Bed Bedouin uin sheiks and their tribes In brightly colored col aol aol- ored robes and mounted on Arabian Arabian Ara Ara- bian steeds will salute the king and queen in Citadel square A reception for the diplomatic corps and foreign communities will follow and then a torchlight parade past Abdin palace by the Egyptian army will come Queen Zulfikar's romance be began began began be- be gan early last year in Switzer Switzer- land A childhood friend of Farouk's Farouk's Farouk's Fa Fa- Fa- Fa rouk's four sisters she accompanied accompanied accompanied the family to the winter resort She is modern modem but uses neither powder nor lipstick Farouk educated in England is of powerful build keenly Interested in interested interested in- in Iii in archeology and sports |
