Show r I fib r 1 y e Young Man Takes His Sweetheart and x Herf Mother All the Way to His Old Home HomeTown Town In in Egypt to Prove That He Is 9 Really a Kings King's Nephew and Immensely Rich e 3 J g s f wA wAr m r IY d v r f fa a S i aa f h w x C d str t a k kf i w j jI I Mf t t f r i s z i i z Kf f v rr Y 4 nth f Y x ty M t Y p pM M 1 x K 1 wM a 1 E Ery yo i ry o rah 4 s 6 t A Ar r j r f h 4 Ny z zA A t Prince r i rt e Y A go t jP fry r Mohammed Cz y i A Ali Ibrahim t A y vai s Ip yh F and Miss Mabel y ti tW a A Ahe Normand to whom t s d he was strongly at J Jp 6 teary w df but whose heart he heyy p H y unable win l Y Yd d Bf t gi giAli t was to y i E 1 f Kai f Y a 1 w y Y A YEAR ago Prince Mohammed A All Ali Ibrahim nephew of King Fuad of Egypt and a young man of great importance on the banks of the Nile arrived in this country to tobee beG bee what American life is like and also If possible to win some charming Amen Ameri American can beauty for his bade With spending money jingling m In his pockets he found no dIfficulty in accomplishing the first ob object jest of his visit In fact he saw so much of l life e from New York to Holly Holly- Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood wood and back again that within six weeks he had little left besides his return ticket to Egypt B But the matter of ot the bride he longed to lo take back with him was not so easy Although the Prince met countless girls to whom horn he could and did lose his heart he found not one whom he ho could induce to exchange the democratic joys joy of life in America for the title of Princess and the possible chance of stepping some someday someday someday day into Cleopatra's sandals as Queen QueenI I of Egypt I The beauties were willing to flirt and andI I dance and play about with the tha Prince as much muchas as he be wished but when it came to putting on his engagement ring nag there thero was as as ng Ibrahim himself himsel soon learned to describe the tho situation nothing doing Of course this was a deep disappoint disappoint- disappointment disappointment disappointment ment to the young man who has in his bis veins the blood of no end of sheiks II He had been led to believe that every Ameri American can girl is eager for wealth and a title and when he offered both alon along with a 1 avery avery very likable young man who speaks Eng Eng- English I 5 lash lish ss as well as a good many of the na nation's I tion's eminent citizens he could not notI I understand why hy he should be repeatedly rejected I But although he wooed girl after girl WIth all the Oriental ardor which Ameri Amerl American can women seem to admire so BO much in books and on the tho stage and screen he found not one whom he could induce to say s y Prince Im I'm yours till yours till the tho I sands of the resort lesert grow cold Somehow the magic of his making love love which had on several occasions in hi his more youthful days brought altogether too prompt results seemed to Iose to to- to lose lose Its power when transplanted to io America So the sailed back home with wIth- wIthout without without out his promised bride but with the firm determinatIon to come back another year and gardenin have one more try at the love garden in which so many beauties bloom Sure enough June of 1923 saw the Prince back bac in New York warmly greeted by the former objects of his de- de devotion devotion de devotion and determined to woo 00 them all allover allover over again or to find some other Ameri Amen American can beauty who would appreciate his hh advantages as a husband This is how it happened that one moonlight evening found the Prince dining with one of the hoped-for hoped sv hearts hearts who had rejected him a year ago aro MIss Miss Mabel Withee The open air open restaurant in Central Park which he had chosen for dinner was one particularly particularly lady appropriate for a young man of Prince Ibrahim's romantic intentions it being one of the few places where the spir t of romance survives even when the law forbids certain other spirits r Before the waiter had served the clam clan cocktails the Princes Prince's heart was lost V not i again not to the pretty young woman who sat across the table from him but butto butto bu pL to a curly red-haired red brown eyed beauty who had just seated herself hersel at a near by r C I I 1 4 r rr r f On the right Miss Mits Mabel Withee the first j I of many American girls to refuse to marry v fJ s J r the Egyptian Prince and below Miss a Pearl Shepard hepard who is willing to become h his bride if her mamma thinks best 11 I 3 1 cr A f f I A tv f r er a 3 W t as s r f 9 6 a t tf ta f i a r ya yar yaP r 0 P yr Jw As he afterward confessed tho those e red curls wound themselves in an instant around his heart They made him com com- completely completely forget forret how much he had once been in love with Mabel Withee and aU all aUthe the other girls to whom he had bad proposed N Now ow he be could see sec only those brown eye eyes and red curls curls-a curls a symphony as charming ho he thought as ns any Egyptian sunset Probably it was lucky for tor the Princes Prince's peace of mind and for the peace of the restaurant that he had bad for a dinner companion a young woman who did not care to be his wife and i ho was sin sin- sincerely sin sincerely sorry gorry for his kachel Miss Withee was not at all resentful of the way the Prince Prince centered his gaze on the girl at the other table On the contrary she helped him when ben opportunity presented to be properly Intro Introduced to the young woman who from his first glimpse of her had so captivated captivated him She was as the Prince found out be before fore the evening was over Miss Pearl Shepard He lIe was particularly delighted to find she was named Pearl because his heart had already set her down as ns a pearl beyond price That night marked the last of the din dm dinners ners at which Miss Withee or any of thu th theother other much admired beauties of the past was the Princes Prince's guest Alter After that it was only Pearl Ft l a A AN N xi Axi r 41 o t c PM j i- i ij rf J t y I j The Prince was delighted to tot find behind the sparkling browneyes brown eyes and the curling red hair a aheart aheart heart that seemed made to beat In tune with his forever With With li in three days after Ibrahim's gaze had slipped from MabelI Mabel t Withee's very easy to look at face to Pearl Shepards Shepard's he had hadI asked her to b be his wife and the she had promised that she would But she sho said just as the Prince was anticipating the joys of claiming this love prize at the earliest possible mo moment mo- mo moment moment ment of course we must see what mamma says first This Thia was a great surprise to the Prince and and a n most disconcerting one In none of his previous love affairs in inthe inthe the land of the free ha had i it ever been hinted that the girls girl's mother had bad anything any anything thing to do with the course of the romance He lIe had bad hardly supposed that any of the unveiled beau beauties ties of the West were tonny to any parental restrictions whatsoever But the tho Prince was too much in love wIth Pearl Shepard to object For her sake ho felt he be would be willing to face faco facea a while wh hole le army corps of the sternest most forbidding mothers Up to this moment the Prince had been beell concerned only with Pearls Pearl's surpassing good looks and the appeal she made to co his heart Now he had to make his throbbing love for her be patient while he listened to something of her family history and the possible objections that mIght be raised to her marriage As be he found out Miss Shepard is tho daughter of a prosperous New York fur manufacturer From a financial stand standpoint POint there is no reason whatever why she should be anything except a home girl but like many another even richer and more fashionable heiress she was waa tempted into striking out for herself and trying for fame in the movies J t tA A YG a VS Y pA o ot t CY o oy y 7 M A 1 r l f x 6 a 4 i ti j t tA A 1 i ur urY Y t The J I Princes Prince's Prince Princ s f uncle Kinge King t Fuad e r w- w of Egypt a t I f I t 1 r r ru ro rS rt o u iT S a i t 1 A At c t The Tho considerable success she has achieved there has bag not turned her head headin headin headin in the slightest She still relies on her mothers mother's advice in everything and of course she must consult her mamma be- be before before be before fore going any further withas with Ii as a love affair that would take her thousands of miles away hem fum tr m the family hearthstone So the Prince was taken to meet Pearls Pearl's mother He ne found her ber a much less lees stern stem and forbidding personage than he had expected and under her ber sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic influence he launched into an even more glowing description than he had Intended of ef the glories of his family tree ti-ca of the fortune that is said to yield him a year and his prospects of being some day King of Egypt She listened with what that hat the Prince thought the most sympathetic interest to all he had to say but when he reached the point where he hoped she would say he might have her daughter and her maternal blessing too she said nothing of the kyd k nd Instead she addressed the Prince in terms that while most politely and diplomatically phrased conveyed to him exactly the same meaning as if she sho had Bad said Im from show Missouri Missouri show me mel Once more the Prince was impressed I K P b G WA t rG h S1 A w AY t tr i ri Y r e 1 E L s i tl a i e f Prince Ibrahim's pearl beyond price as a tennis girl with the singular shrewdness of these wonderful Americans whom hom ho he wanted to make Bis llis kin by marriage Unable t to find his rating in Dun or Bradstreet or his name in m the Social Register they demanded something more than his un unsupported un- un unsupported unsupported supported word Yord to prove that he had bad nil all the wealth and ane social position he claImed in his native land I like you very much was the sub sub- substance substance substance stance of o 0 what Pearls Pearl's mother told told the Prince I think you an extremely extremely charm charm- charming charming ing young man and dont don't blame Pearl inthe inthe in the least for falling in love with you But you must remember that Pearl isa is isa isa a very beautiful girl My husband and andI andI I feel that she the can make a tremendous success on the stage stace or in the movies And if not that why she can settle down with us to wait untila until a millionaire hus hus- husband husband band comes along What you have to say about your income of a year is very inte inter inter- inter interesting eating esting but how are we ye to Know now that the principal is soundly invested Egypt is a II long way from New York and ani my husband and I could not bear to think I 1 Y A a F Fi FA i A 4 a 7 W ge gei geA i 13 A ti Y Miss Misa Miss Pearl sy a Shepard who will i x satisfy the t h he e afu Princes Prince's longing a for a made in r i America wife pro pro- provided proof vided his prospects in specifications life come up to the he has submitted of oui daughter gong going so far away from us without our being certain that her future Is as secure as a government bond A young mat man less mad love than tha Prince might have argued the matter so soave e but he promptly invited Pearl and her mother to take a trip to Egypt and see for themselves if he is not asA as 1 immensely wealthy as he says lIlYS and if his claims to royal rank are not exactly as represented r This is IS how It rt happened that J r 1 when hen the tho liner Aquitania sailed out of New York Harbor the other day one one of its most palatial suites was occupied by Prince t j Ibrahim and another close j ti y by held Pearl Pear Shepard and y v Jf her mother They were sere ere bound for Egypt as the Princes Prince's guests If on reaching reach ng Egypt Mis Mi lh 3 Shepard finds everything ever thing concerning the Princes Prince's position po- po position in life fully up to his bisI specifications it is expected that there will be a speedy wedding wedding The willingness of the Prince to have his prospective mother law in-law visit his home boma town and see for tor herself hersel just how be he stands financially and otherwise would seem to be convincing proof that hes he's sure of comin coming up to the specifications he ha has hns submitted Whether the wedding takes place ill in New York or in Cairo will hill depend on bethel hethel the Prince prefers prefer to renounce his religion or the tha bride hers Of course the the consent of King KID Fuad i is necessary before one of the royal nephews can take a bride from America or anywhere else But Prince Ibrahim seems little worried on this score The King has always been very fond of the young man and in the past has helped to extricate him from several very unfortunate love affairs So now there is thought to tobe be little chance that HIs Majesty will raise any objection to the ther romance remance mance There have been repeated repented rumors of late that King Fua Fuad is preparing to abdicate the throne He has purchased a palace near Rome and is said Bald to he l eager to return to It Iti Italy ly th the land where he formerly lived and which lie be love loves better than his own home If this happens it will ill of course bring Prince Ibrahim one step nearer the troubled throne of Egypt I Il |