WEDDED TO A PRINCE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)

WEDDED TO A PRINCE

ACTRESS MARRIED IN STRAND REGISTRY. CHARMING AMERICAN AND KHEDIVE S KINSMAN. Under the style and title of a Princess of the Ottoman Empire Miss Ola Humphrev’s identity' is henceforth concealed. TTiis charming American actless, who played the leading lady’s part in Mr. Stanley Cook’s Company, “The Man from Mexico,” at the Strand Theatre, was married in the Stranu Registry Office, Henrietta-street, to Prince Ibrahim Hassan, fourth brother of the Khedive’s father. In the certificate of marriage the bridegroom is described as a bachelor, 32, and residing at the Savoy Hotel. His Tank is given as Prince of the Ottoman Empire. His father’s name is given as Ibrahim Hassan, deceased, also Prince of the Ottoman Emnire. The bride was described as Pearl Ola .Jane Mordant, formerly Huniphiev. spinster, aged 2.1, the divorced wife of Edwin Mordant, residing at the Savoy Hotel. Her father’s name was given as Thomas Marshall Hi-mpbrev. deceas’d, and his occupation that of furniture manufacturer Th.: witnesses to the marriage were Mr. Richard Westacott, the American Vice-Consul; Oscar Comte de

Nevers, and Mr. J. J. Edwards. The bride and bridegroom drove up to the registry office in a motor-car which baa been lent them by the Count de Nevers, and entered the building unobserved. They were joined .by three gentlemen, who signed the register, ana the ceremony was all over in half au hour. With’her wealth of -rich auburn hair scarcely concealed, by the little blue toque with a brown wing she was wearing, the bride, in a silver-grey dress, made a charming picture. Over I)er shoulders she wore a blue silk scart. The bridegroom—dark complexioned—wore the conventional black morning coat and silk hat. A wedding breakfast was afterwards served at the Savoy Hotel, and the bride and bridegroom loft for Paris later in the afternoon. Miss Ola Humphrey had justly earneu a position as one of the celebrities oi the American stage, and first visited England four years ago. For several vears Miss Humphrey “starred” in America in a repertory of plays, while her success in Australia and New Zealand in the leading roles in such plays as “Tho Christian.” “The Squaw Man,” and “The Virginian” was instantaneous. A favourite part Which gave her great opportunities for a display of her undoubted talent was that of Glory Quayle in the first-named piece, but she had a decided preference for Shakespeare’s heroines. “T think mv best characters are emotional tragic,” she once said—“ Nora in ‘The Doll’s House,’ Hcdda Gabler, Tosca, Paula Tanqueray, Saupho.” Miss Humphrev’s recent success as Clementina Fitz Hugh in “The Man from Mexico” will be remembered. “Beauty is not indispensable on the stage,” Miss Humphrey told an interviewer, “but there must be magnetism and charm.”