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FAROUK & NARRIMAN ON

Wedding picture: King Farouk escorts his 18-year-old bride into the throne room of the Abdin Palace in Cairo for her. first public appearance as Queen of Egypt. (AP Picture);

The story of Miss X

NEW YORK.

THIS is the story of a

1

DRUG

HONEYMOON

INTERESTING ASPECTS OF THE EGYPTIAN MONARCH'S CHARACTER ARE REVEALED 'IN THIS FINAL REPORT OF AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

L

By

+

Norman Price

trudges the sunburnt Copri post- man with abusive letters for the of them are from England, young Royal honeymooners. Most

King Faroule allowed me to see

of each other's presence. They sit with beads close together over coffee. Always it seems between Joke going

Their favourite spot in Capri Is Gracle Fleids' rés. taurant, Canzoni del Mare,

Bomo them.

On their first night King - Farouk requested "Sally." Ho told Gracle, "It is one of my favourite songs.. I have a little' musical jug that sings it, but not so well as you do." "Sally" is also Narrimon's favourites.

:

of

CAPRI. IGHTS blaze from King Farouk's royal

Farouk told me proudly: "She honeymoon suite at

is very fond of musle and has the Hotel Caesar some of them. One signed "A. a very lovely collection Augustus in Capri. The Alexander" from Chorlton-cum- phonograph records. She loves Italian moon is full and Hardy, Manchester, said "If ever classical music and music in you come to England-if the general. She is a very clever there are strains of Orien- British Government

me

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you and sense."

Egyptian what and Farouk will be drink- Team and has nearly always

been top-scorer. He is proud possessor of the coveted Swise Master of certificate "Grand Marksmanship."

30

of

tal music. Two American to enter which I doubt and you witle girl with very good trate sallors, noses pushed. try to stop me taking a photo of

NO FUSS against the hotel's 12-feet your Queen I will teach you a

lesson you will never forget." high railings, spoke to

The current belief in England FAROUK Insisted that Gracio wistfully when they saw I s that Farouk is sloppy, share his food, Ho had was about to be permitted pachy, - self-indulgent and wanted on Egyptian meal, through the strict Palace could be easily manhandled. But that night and had”... · brought rough stuff with Farouk would his own favourite dishes guard. "Gee, I bet that's be worth watching, believe me. and Narrimen's (иста a some orgy going on. You This massive Arab monarch is special chicken casserole; his, lucky stiff."

bull, his wrist melons from his own farmi.) as strong as bones thick བསྟ my arm, his

"Ee, that melon! buck and torso wadded with

I'll never I amiled: "That music," I D

forget great stirring lumps of muscle.

Gracke said, "It was Bald, truthfully, "will

be if he IA flabby,

was lovely," Her option of the Royal pair is "I think he's a He is also a Queen Narriman. playing Hackenschmitt.

of nice folly chap and she seems her gramophone records that stian International Ride such a sweet happy little lass" know youngsters who go to

had known she was popular, Farouk's opinion of Gracie: department stores doing They call 'boosting" (shop-ing orange juice."

course, and now I have met her I understand why so full of ifting), and who are turning into burglars. Sometimes they They did not believe me.

pep, so young in her heart, take their young girl friends They stayed outside and let

think she's a very sweet person." with them -- 12 or 13 years their imaginations run riot.

But if Farouk had not been And that is the trouble-

quick-eyed, yet another scandal In her travels from one area with the Farouk rumours.

might have been horn, JERY low riflemen in Europe story to another In search

have earned this and Farouk For when Gracie heard he was

har narcotics Miss X met many Nobody has told the truth

coming she put out

tragic

people whose because nobody, until now, told me jokingly: "I can assure gitu dinner service. Farouk fold young

me: "Some silly fellow lives

been had

by has been in a position to tell you I did not get it because I was gi

a crowned head, my dear fellow. narcotics,

ay my retinue mad I had to get it the hard way.

away again. Yet he gave a deprecating laugh not entirely the fellow's fault Never before, since

he when I called shooting a sport. because I always tell my people became King, has Farouk "Perhaps not exactly a port that when I am visiting places One lies on one's stomach and unofficially there must never be Her friends included a hus-allowed a journalist near peppers at a plece of cardboard, a fuse, I like things as simple band and wife who thought him. By his strict Orien- but it's a good thing to do, I

possible. takting drugs was just 01 them off to prison. And then normal as eating and drinking. tal standards the Monarch agree." he would take a man aside They

even ended up giving just did not do that sort of the and any. She studied at one of

'You know I could

to their baby only drugs best music schools

the have

thing. In

taken you to prison. months old. Whenever the baby U.S.A.Oberlin conservatory Don't you think I deserve some

cried they would give him -a in Ohio and completed her consideration. So he made shot of heroin to shut him up.” education at Boston Emmanuel money on all angles. College for women.

pretty young musician who Bonk from respected place in society to lead the life of a thief. because of her devouring .Her need for narcotics. story was recorded at the bleak Westfield State Re- formatory for women In New York, where at 25 she is serving a prison sentence. Born into an educated New England family, Miss X showed carly

talent for music, which her parents sympathetically encouraged.

£80 A WEEK

GIRL

TEEN-AGE drug addicts ore shocking the United States with thair disclosures to the Senate's Investigating Committee in Washington.

old."

ruined

BABY, TOO

or

11

it,

HARD WAY

I

best

among her take it I suppose It was

"Well, fortunately, I just Swimming more like King spotted what was happening and Farouk's idea of sport. Until ho when I heard it was Gracie'a got car trouble a few years ago best service I made them it

put he was a ten metre diver of right back. I felt it was very ENEMIES

Olymple standard, he told me. nice of her and told her it was He sat in open-necked shirt, a pleasure to use it. Then

Misa X tells how drugs were

omer THE result has been that floppy linen suli, sipping coffee, ocularly he added: "You know, talking volubly with me on his 1 hope none of it was missing being openly sold in some of eight-and nine-year-olds who his enemies have had a verandah that overlooks blue afterwards." Manhattan's best known drug acted as errand boys for dope field-day. Nobody has stop Naples bay. atores, cafeterias and night pedlars.

ped them. Farouk has clubs.

played bass She not

only violin, cello and alto saxophone but was an accomplished ar- "You go in the drug

At 20 and

the you ask ranger and composer. she was earning £80 a week, needles, and if he thinks Then she was taken seriously look all right he'll just ill.

them from underneath

man

She knew children of 11 who were selling drugs and

"I Ilke

EMBARRASSED

aquaplaning very At Coney Island amusement never answered back. He much," he said.

"I take my store park she had watched pedlars has a lot of enemies, for he wie on my shoulders and we for who were so desperate to sell is a Mohammedan and thus go on the same board. She is you their stuff to hike someone

very fearless and adventurous, customer" Farouk ordered his of Com- We have lots of fun. Life, you white luxury yacht, Pride of the

help Gracie, as he put it, "dress the place for her

fish out of some money that they the natural for the would accost any man or wo-munist and Zionist.

know, is hard enough for a Sea, to be brought from Cepri's crowned head without all the main harbour and anchored with Her doctor gave her demeror counter and give them to you, man in the street--whether or not they were known addicts- no questions asked."

If they can discredit him with trouble of today's political prob- lights a-glitter under the full on Gracie's beach. to relieve the pain -and-coon —

She she had she found

Often when she had obtained and say "Want anything? Do his own people by tales of night- lems. One wants to try and moon become

you use horse (herein)? Would club drinking-although Farouk get a little fun out of it so long Nariman was delighted.

has discovered to her surprise completely dependent on the enough drugs for herself she

you like to try cocaine?".

that she is a good sallor and a strict teetotaller, like all as it harms nobody." drug.

Joined

selling other pedlars

Moslems-and photo- narcoties to

takes great pleasure in the children. And her own future? Miss X devout

yacht. When her doctor cut her off She personally knew a "couple hardly dared to be hopeful. graphs of the King of Araby to of hundred child addicts, and Her greatest hope at the mo- and his Queen in swim suits ex- buy it illegally. But after a hod "unfortunately sold drugs ment, she tearfully told the posed to infidel eyes (yours and her mine) they might disturb Egypt's that Investigators, while she found it too mild to to them."

tragic story could help to save loyalty. satisfy her cravings and turned

Miss X was more sorry about ather young lives "from being to morphine.

phase of her activities

sold into the slavery of the

from demerol she began

Women's the

this

school

was

three

But They would like that, what puzzles King Farouk is sald. that the British, who are neither Frederick Cook Communist mor Zionist, seem to hate him worst of all, Steadily (World Copyright ReserUELL---

each day uphill to Farouk's hotel London Express Service),

About this Lime Miss X than any other, and told the drug habit" joined

Army Investigators: "It's pillful to where she found it see these young kids buying Corps, was

obtain all the the stuff. I don't think they "We were know what they are doing. I drugs she needed. supplied

kits with medical containing powerful drugs, and

easy

to

I got drugs that way. I simply RONALD ROPER on the LONDON STAGE

slole a kit whenever I needed more dope."

After her discharge, froin the army she travelled to New York, to Cleveland, Philadel- phia, Washington ony place where she could obtain cotles.

nor-

THE CAPSULES

her

her

to

ALEC GUINNESS "HAMLET”

BE TAKEN

HAD TO

TO BE

scen."

OFF

LONDON, July 3. Noted theatre critics such as last she has chloved her Despite the drug habit that

the public was right. Beverley Baxter described it as ambition to play the leading S And

"the warst Hamlet I have ever role in a West End play. Was slowly destroying

Alec Guirmess health she was still able

Miss Lister Is appearing in was wrong. He tried to give carry on with

Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four work arranger and composer. But us a new version of Shake-

this she under Colonels." In though her jucome remained speare's "Hamlet" as inter- between £70 and £80 a week,

found it was not enough preted by Guinness him- to keep her supplied with the self. But the public did not tremendous quantity 0 nar-like the interpretation. So the production at the New She spent more than the 205 Theatre closes at the end a week on the 60 drug cap of the week.-Losses sules she used every day. Soon estimated at 236,000,

the

cotics she now desired.

it became necessary to steal to get extra money.

are

Why did it fall? One of Finally she turned to pros-the reasons is, probably, that for the first time in fifty years Hamlet was

of course, to that irrepressible, Trs that man again! I refer, irresistible, one-and-only Danny Kaye. His new film, entitled, on the Riviera," has just been generally released here...

Danny plays a double role

one half is an American enter fainer with Corinne Calvet as his girl friend; the other half as an French amorously inclined aviator married to Gene Tierney. Imagine Kaye, the entertainer,

iitution.

Miss X tells of a hotel in the New York suburb of played in London wearing impersonating Kaye, the aviator.

TRADEMARK

Farouk offered me one of his THEY both enjoy swimming--

and you should just sec Farouk long plump cigars. "During the swim. Ho churns water like a

he said, war,"

."I offered blunt brown torpedo.

Churchill a cigar fifty centimetres long and three in width as a "Don't you ever get tired?" I

little souvenir of his visit. He laughed. "I can do Churchill immediately asked for kilos without getting tired,

mirror to be brought so that exactly but since that is just

Wo what my little wife can do too, he could look at himself,

a mirror and he I cannot feel I can claim much brought him

stood for several minutes strik- credit for that " He laughed ing atitudes and studying him again. "If there was an en-

she self with the cigar, although it durance test in the SUN,

was in

middle of an official would probably beat me.”

She would need to be good. He can use a fish spear under water for hours with frogmen's slippers and breathing pipe.

the

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"I was very embarrassed for ini. One must be so careful for one's dignity in the Orient which is perhaps why I take my

I watched Queen Narriman holidays in Europe for scenery swimming nd Piccola Marine. change and so I can dine out, She had undressed in one of the attend theatres, swim and make illed for cabanas with her holiday as others do." ladies-in-watting all together. She wore a cloth of gold swim

suit and green short wrap.

NIGHT LIFE

MAROUK'S night life in Capri Farouk was in his epeed-boat booming with laughter. He has so far has been confined to a hearty deep-chested, laugh. Gracie's place. He and Narriman you can hear it, dine quietly, sometimes dance. Wherever ho It is his trademark. One of his Farouk is surprisingly light on and refreshes: the body.". physique. But mostly they just ment of her career. She plays

He had a heavy sand-filled sip orange juice, and Usten to the part of the four dream girls fender bag on a long rope, was takes the most dificult assign-savings is "Laughter cleanses the his fect for a man of his massive

the music.

Narriman uses * the powder of an English, French, Russian whirling it like fiall splashing and American colonel

water in a rowboat where some room and waits her turn for the Farouk told of his aides had been dozing in mirror demurely.

"I have complote faith in the sun. They awoke drenched, me:

ere not to place had to dive overboard to escape her good Farouk's deep mirth-filled shout herself in any awkward shua- tion. She is so sensible and in- telligent."

•

On the opening night of the play, belleve it or not, four off stage friends of hers were in a box to watch her performance. an Englishman, a Frenchman, s All Russian and an American. were colonels!

1

FAVOURED SPOT

When they depart they go Narriman's quietly out along the unobtrusive WHEN he saw

bobbing white cap as ben-front

by. Grpclo's Bath sho wam, crawlstroke, to- swarming-pool. I watched them “Puřouk stood · asidé for ho promptly 60, Elizabeth Taylor is back in plunged Into the co. Blus Queen Narriman to precede him Bronx where clerks sold drugs, a beard: "After all," Alec (and vice versa) and neither of ENGLISH-BORN Alm - star wards him

the girls knowing one from the Guinness had argued, "it's other, and you'll have some idea England again. She is here to water surged past his huge and she walked out proudly.

He pulled her to when she reached the first patch "It was protected by the absurd to say 'pluck off my of the mughs that are to be had play the part of Robecca in the shoulders. police. There was one parti- board, and blow it in my from this

highly entertaining : Bim version of "Ivanhoe" with wards a halt-enabmergi rock. · she waited for full. They, cular patrolman we knew.

*They dawdled to Wan police. Teg, big' and" Smitty who went. In there at face if I'm clean shaven, musical. seven or eight o'clock at night..

Robert Taylor.

matching

But

of abadow beyond the restaurant for him. The moan Was ablitude, Tho

put their arms around, ench her Referring to

broken launch, liko a bluebottle at other's shoulders, Kaye proves here that he is

gher copper until, he went off duty early. Such strict adherence to the

not only a comedian, singer, marriage of less than a year, she picnic, kept buzzing heat.

hole against him, chat, and the other day morning

Then he'd hang text apparently does not appeal dancer and entertainer. He can maid in London

I could hear faintly Narriman's walked on together ba around until the girls paid him to the public. They did not like act, leo.

that she still sees fier ex-husband to gurgles of laughter, and Their two empty, orange juice' Guinness portrayal of

A sick

Nick Hilton, and that they are Farouk's solid, chuckldu. He glasses, which fanouk'ake single Hamlet, bigh strung, tight lipped,

still "good friends.” pe splashed her and she swam "eigne"stub, lay, behind-them-on "If there was any complaint rigid, Laurence Olvier gave un

Johannicaburg.

It will be recalled that Miss away still laughing. They came the dight club cable, Walters about mon brought in by girls a flory Hamlet; John Gielgud, A WIN on

cleared them away, on Another then Policeman Smitty bluffed poetical one The two inter- race course in 1943 docked Taylor was thrko engaged arbore hand in hard, burg his way, and warned, the men pretations received nothing but 21-year-old moura Lister to come married at 18 and divorced at Her skin is very fair and her night of orth that if they didn't give the prada from the public and to England to make stage and 19:53WIhemarryskam? area nourly always meny Bhe the world's most misunasrslood

and Farouk are constantly awarE ✨ITOTINTCÍ, and his! girls in their, money, he'd send critics alike Sage?

-Blan, career for SWING: Now at "Yes-but not yet," she addN,

Was over. for