KING WEDS DANCER
TAILOR’S DAUGHTER A QUEEN. An Arabian Nights story in real life is revealed by the. marriage of Rachel Brauer, the beautiful daughter of a Jewish tailor in the, Polish village of Podkamien. Iler father lately received a. letter from her enclosing £3OOO arid saying that she is now one of the wives of the King of Abyssinia in his palace at Addis Ababa. When IS years of age Rachel eloped in 1917 with a Russian colonel. He died in Constantinople, and Rachel earned her living as a dancer in cabarets. There she nnd, Has Tifari. then a. I prince, who fell in love with her and took her bark to Addis Ababa, where he married her.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 10
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119KING WEDS DANCER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 121, 25 May 1931, Page 10
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