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OLA HUMPHREY MARRIED.

AN EGYPTIAN PRINCESS. (Fbos; Oua Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 21. The young Califomian whoso emotional acting in "The Christian," "The Squaw Man," and "The Virginian" is one <f. the most pleasant recollections of recent drama in Now Zealand, is no longer ;i Californian, or oven an actress. On Saturday, unannounced and unexpected, Miss Ola. Humphrey motored up to the Strand Registry Office with Prince Ibrahim Hassan, and they were married. The witnesses included Mr Rioted Westacott (the American Vice-consul) and Count de Metiers, a close friend of tho Prince. The popular young actress gave her name as Pearl Ola Jane Mordant (formerly Humphrey), divorced wife of Edwin Mordant, aged 27, and tho daughter of tho late Thomas Marshall Humphrey, furniture manufacturer. Her husband, mho is 52 years of age, is a very wealthy Egyptian, son of Hassan Pasha, who is also a. Prince of the Ottoman Empire, .and ivas fourth ■brother of the Khedive's father. His own brother was the leader of the charge at Salonica a year or two ago, when the Young Turks overthrew the Turkish dvnastv.

Both" Miss Humphrey and her husband were residing at the Savoy Hotel. They drove up to the registry office in a motor car, which bad been lent "them by the Count <fo Ncvers, and entered the building unobserved. They wore joined by thrco gentlemen, who signed the. register. With her wealth of rich auburn hair scarcely concealed _ by a littlo bhie toque with a brown wing, the bride, in a silver-grey, dress, made a charming picture. Tho.bridegroom wore the conventional black morning ooat and silk hat. A wedding breakfast was afterwards served at' the Savoy' Hotel; and the bride and bridegroom left, for Paris in the, afternoon.

Miss Ola Humphrey first came to London four yeaTS ago, beforo hoi- Australasian tour. On her present visit-she arrived about a year ago—she has played in a. small sketch at one of the West End -theatres,, and latterly in " Tho Man from Mexico" at the Strand. A feiv months ago she underwent an operation for appendicitis.'

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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15159, 2 June 1911, Page 6

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OLA HUMPHREY MARRIED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15159, 2 June 1911, Page 6

OLA HUMPHREY MARRIED. Otago Daily Times, Issue 15159, 2 June 1911, Page 6