Medford mail tribune., July 26, 1959, Image 42

The sport of ex-kings is girl-watching, ot least as played by Farouk (lower left corner).
Farouk wants to recapture a tatter of
the past by effecting a reconciliation
with Narriman. The possibility is en
hanced by her financial plight. Her
friends say that since they've been on
the outs, she's been receiving only $40
a week from the ex-king.
In the meantime, he has had to con
tent himself with the on-again-off -again
affections of striking ex-Naples beauty
queen Irma Cappece Minutolo. She
coyly "claims she's "not the marrying
kind," but the romance has smoldered
since shortly after Farouk's rule.
If Irma should decide to wed the un
popular ex-king one day, she won't be
marrying a pauper despite Farouk's
lament that he is destitute. "When. I
left Alexandria," he mourned, "I had
only the change in my pockets. My
situation is extremely critical."
The truth is that the "change in his
pockets" probably amounted to several
millions of dollars which he prudently
has stashed in European banks. When
he sailed into Capri on his exile voyage
' (leaving behind a pyramidful of unpaid
bills, including his income tax); his
arrival was scarcely less spectacular
than his honeymoon trip a few years
earlier. His quarters in the sumptuous
Eden Paradiso Hotel consisted of the
entire third floor: 27 rooms, 15 baths,
and a private dining room and elevator.
Farouk has scaled down his living
somewhat since then, probably more
because he feels he is regarded as a
clown than because of any financial
stress. There is nothing to indicate that
he'll be tapping his benefactor, Rainier,
for unemployment insurance though
he once asked amused newsmen if they
knew where he might find a job.
Farouk, whose future was once so
bright, now is happy to settle for peace
and quiet since no one wants to share
his indiscretions any more. 'The great
est kindness that can be done to me,"
he sighs, "would be to accept me as an
ordinary, simple person."
Erased by years of prodigious dissi
pation are the lofty ideals and ambitions
of a slim, handsome boy who ascended
to the. throne at 16. The same people
who rejoiced at his coronation, danced
with joy in the streets of Alexandria
when a fleshy caricature of that ingenu
ous boy abdicated 16 years later.
Affection and admiration, which
Farouk had not sought as a youth, are
commodities he is finding his money
can't buy for him today.
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Jeanette Morrison's favorite actress was Vivien
Leigh and out came Janet Leigh.
Natasha turned into Natalie and Gurdin gave
way to director Sam Wood's last name to give the
teen-agers the ever-popular Natalie Wood.-
Occasionally a name is changed more than once.
Brooklyn-born Bernard Schwartz grew so fond of
Anthony Adverse, hero of a popular historical
novel, that he adopted the name till Universal
International changed it to Anthony Curtis. The
fans' tremendous response addressed to just "Tony"
Curtis made the studio change his name again.
Issur Danielovitch shortened his name to Isidor
Demsky, but people still stumbled over it. So he
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it Kirk Douglas.
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Orden and star of . NBC's new "Laramie" TV
series, didn't respond after being called several
times during his first film, the assistant director
exploded: "Can't you remember your own name?"
Replied John with a good-natured grin, "It isn't
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