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The dramatic chan~e, however. wh1c)1 has recently taken place in_ the ou~ward cncumstances of lm life leave no doubt that, m practice, he has abandoned all ho~e of ever asserting either of his claims. For the son of Abdul Hamid, who today might be Sul- tan of Turkey had not Mustapha Kemal made that country a republic, has taken a job in, a Budapest ':offee house as the leader of the establishment s Amencan Jazz band and i• now fiddling every night from six o'clock till midnight for ; monthly salary of $80 and the tips which some generous guests may give him. . . .. . .. It isn't even a first-class establishment, th1s Cafe ~r~ly •. \\·here the direct descendant of 62 sultans earns h1s hveh· hood by playing the latest American jazz melodies to a rather unappreciative audience of traveling ~alesmen, small tradesmen and shopgirk O PPOSITE the coffee house, in an old brownstone building, are the editorial offices of an insignifi!anl Budapest daily. Among the people who come to work here every morning there is a beautiful young woman. the writer of a serie~ of articles dealing with her personal rem1n1scences. She is the first wife of Prince Abdul Kadit. Her Imperial Highness Madjide Mustapha. once th.e mi!- tress of a magnificent palace m Constantmople, who 1s now receiving a weekly salary of $22 for her literary labors. It was 11 years ago that the adventures d Prince Abdul Kadir and Princess Madjide Mustapha •ed. The Al- lied armies had crushed the Central I :~rs. revolution broke out in Turkey and the members of the Turkish im- perial family had to flee. The Sultan resigned and the heir apparent to the Turkish th:one, the P_rince Abdu! Ka- dir, was forced to abandon hts palaces m Constantmople and to take refuge in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. He wasp't able to save much ol his $50,000,000 fortune wht'JI hP had to leave his residence within a few hours. He had about $25,000 in cash, the ume amount in gold and jt!wels and a priceless old Italian vio- lin when he arrived in Budapest and established his new household in the Hotel Bristol. It was still a luxurious. royal household, worthy of an Oriental prince, but his imperial highness considered it small and miserly. In- stead of a palace he had but a suite of 12 rooms in the hotel and instead of his 30 wives he had but six, one of them being the favorite Princm Madjide Mustapha. Prince Ab- dul Kadir. ... When ftc wore this suit /1e was worth millions, had thirt); lllives. a azz Once the Lord of a Harem. The Son of Sultan Abdul H Qimid Now Fiddles for $80 a Month / n a Budapest Coffee House. While His First Wife Writes For a Paper Across the Street. And the Courts Battle About The $ jO_,OOO,OOO Fortune They Left in Constantinople Irene B o g n a r. .•. When tlte Prince's money gave out, she D>enl back to her dancing. . . But before tl.c Prince finishes his fifth number, l1is c.t·lllifc leaves t1Je coffee house, knollling he would be embarrassed to pass the plate for tips if she D'crc there. Fiddler Kadir. . . . Direct descend- ant of 62 sultans, he makes music n>hile traveling salesmen dance with A . S to Prince Abdul Kadir, he began to weave the golden threads of a new romance. On his many excursions to the Hungarian cap_ital's night cabarets he made the acquaintance of an Irene Bognar, a beautiful blond dancer, and soon fell in love with her. He courted the fair Hun- garian in real Oriental fashion, overwhelming her with gifts and finally asking her to marry him. Miss Bognar, charmed by the prospect of becoming a princess, consented and Abdul Kadir essayed to secure a marriage license. The authorities. however, refused to i~ sue a license on the ground that the prince still had one wife in the person of the Princess Madjide, and one wife was quite enough for one man according to the Hungarian laws. The lawyers of the prince argued that he, as a member for a foreign dynasty, had the right to marry according to the customs of his native land. At last the authorities solved the interesting legal problem by declaring that the prince could marry according to the Mohammedan law. The cer- emony was performed by a Turkish priest and Miss Bognar soon occupied the first place in Abdul's princely household, with Princess Madjide playing second fiddle. This. however, was too much for Princess Madjide, who shop girls. Abdul's harem now consisted of the Princess Madjide, with whom he took to a small three-room apartment. Prin- cess Madjide had to take care of the household all alone and, since her husband could give her no money, she took up hand embroidery in order to eke out a miserable existence. Madjide 's spirit of independence grew in this heart-rend· ing environment. Finally she d~cided to take an incredible step-to lea,·e her husband and to run away, back to T ur· key. She applied at the Turkish consulate for a passport. but the passport was refused on the ground that since the princess was the wife of the fo;:::!~: cr.:wn !Jrince. should ~he set foot on Turkish soil and be caught. she would be executed. She left the consulate in a desperate mood. She was un- happy, tired of life and she wanted to die. She took a sharp knife, cut her veins and lay down to die. Princess Madjide did not know how long she lay on the floor of her apartment, bleeding and unconscious. All she knew was that she awakened in a hospital and at her bed ~tood a young man whom she had known during the gay period of her Budapest life. H IS name was Ernest Landau. He was a young automobile mer~chant who, by a strange coincidence, had visited the princess just an hour after she attempted sui- cide. He called an ambulance and ordered her to be taken to a private sanitarium. 1-'le visited her every day and offered her his help. The princess, however, refused help. All she wanted was to go back to Con- stantinople. One day before she was about to leave the hospital, the young auto· mobile merchant appeared in her room and handed her a Turkish passport. The late Sultan Abdul Hamid. . . . When rct:olution broke, he resigned, fled, lefl the croom prince no ruler'~ heritage. Kadir was brooding at the same time. By now he had sold everything he had and saw no prospect of getting money. Of course, the prince thought, a marriage would solve everything. Princess Madjide was willing to divorce him, so he filed suit for divorce and soon obtained a decree. For months he searched for a suitable bride and at last found one in the person of Mrs. Ella Manheim, a Hun· garian widow, who was quite rich enough to support a husband and who married Abdul Kadir in the hope that one day he would be permitted to return to Turkey and to take possession of his palaces and treasures. But the last Princess Abdul Kadir won got tired of her princely husband. and after having found out that. he had little hope of recovering his millions from the T urk1sh gov· ernment, she divorced him. T HUS Abdul Kadir was again facing the great problem of making a livelihood. l-Ie had nothing to sel! except that old Italian violin, which had once been a gift hom his father. He sold it to a Budapest dealer and waited for something to tun\ up. But nothing turned up in the life of Prince Abdul Kadir and nothing appeared on the horizon for Pri~cess Madjide, either. At last, however, she met a Hunganan newspaper· man, Mr. Adam Persian, who knew her life story and con· ceived the idea of publishing it in a book form. He visited the princess in her modest apartme_nl and sh~ told ~im many thinas she knew about the mystenes of Onental bfe, about the ''rives of the sultans and about intimJte details of the court life of the Sultan Mohammed and Abdul Hamid. All this seemed to be excellent material for a sensational book, which was published under the title, \Desires and Suffcrinas Under the Veil of the Orient.\ The book was a succe;s and Princess Madjide received a nice royalty. S TILL Prince Abdul Kadir did not con~ider his situation hope- less. He was convinced that the usurper Mustapha Kemal Pasha. who reianed supreme in Constanti· nople and Afllora, would yield his plat:e to him ancl that he would be able to return to Constantinople as The imperial palace in Con&tanlinople. . . . Eleven years ago Prince Abdul Kadir rus/t~d awa}) !J'om this royal midenGe with $25,000 in cash, an o/J violin, six lllive~. , • • Hasn't been home since. \You wished to have a passport to Turkey,\ he said. \Here it is. It is a faked passport. If you want to take the risk of being arrested and sentenced to death, go ahead. But I wouldn't let you go alone. I have some business affairs in Constantine- pie and we can go together.\ The next day instead of going back to Abdul Kadir, Madjide boarded a train to Belgrade, accom- For about a year both Prince Abdul Kadir and his erst· while wife were looking for new opportunities. The little money his imperii.! highness lnd from the sale of his Ital· ian violin dwindled. and he was forced to give up his modest quarters for a furnished room in a crowded quarter of the city. Almost as bad was the plight of Princess Madjide, whose funds were again gone. She took up hand embroidery again, but with this work she earned so little that she all but starved. In her distress she turned to Abdul Kadir for help and the prince, who himself had but little, gave her from time to time as much money as he could. The misery both had to endure brought these two closer together. the Padiaha of all Turks. Ia ,the meantime, he established his household And ar- raftted- his~ life in an entirely Oriental manner. His six wiva were forbidden to leave their rooms, their temporary harem, while. the _prince himself spent his days on the race traw and his nichta in the mOlt expensive night clubs. Every nitht he waa seen in the company of two or three beautiful Hunaarian women, well-known dancers of a night cabaret, and every night he spent larae suma of money on JITincely feaall ud aifta which he presented to his Occidental favorites. Hil fortune, of course, dwi!ldled rl!pidly 11n!kr such cir· cumatances.. He first sold hia jewels, th~n aakecl his ~oun1er brother, Pnnce Mehmed Burhan Edd1n, who marned the wealthy and divorced wife of Lord Sholto Doualas and lived in LOrldon, to help hi11t out. Prince Mehmecl came several times to the rescue of Prince Abdul Kadir, but at last he refuted to ~end more money and Abclul Kadir had to clo iomething about his ever-increasing financial troubles. He first gave up five, then six and at last eight of his 12 rooms. A few months later he decided that he was unable to 1upport six wives under th~ prevailing circumstances and · told five of ihem that the>z had to 10. had received a western educition from her mother, a Rus· sian princesJ. First she attempted to reason with her im· perious husband and, when this was of no avail, she openly revolted, declaring that she would leave him flat unless he dismissed this new wife and reinstated her as his one and only spouse. Abdul Kadir' 1 answer was a severe beating that confined Princess Madjide to her becl for several weeks. A doctor was called. who explained to her that in Hungary a wife need not put up with such behavior from her husband. Madjicle decided to take the Hungarian's advice and when ahe recovered she_ presented her own declaration of in· dependence to Abdul Kadir. She went to theaters, concerts, was entertained by new friends and decided that life. was a thousan.d times more . beautiful in gay Budapest than in the ~eragho at Constantmople. panied by Ernest Landau. Up to the Bulgarian frontier the joumey was without difficulties. At the Turkish frontier, however, they learned that the guards were looking for a fugitive princess-Abdul Kadir's wife-and that every woman passenger would be ex_!1min~d. Fortunately, in the same compartment were three f urk1sh officers, with whom Mr. Landau got into conversation. They told the guards at the frontier that the lady in_ their comp~ny was all right. And thus it happened that Pnncess Mad)tde passed into Turkey on the recommendation of an officer from the enemy's camp. O N her arrival in Constantinople, howe.ver, -the ,princess learned that her adventurou~ trip had been Ill vain. She, as the favorite wife of Abdul Kadir, could. never receive permission to stay in Turkey, and she was told th'!t the best thing for her wa~ to go back to Budapest, get a di- vorce hom the prince and try to support herself. M ADJIDE'S new happine~s. however, d.id not. last long, Ten days later she left Constantinople on a barge char· because the money supply of the prince gave out en· tered by Mr. Landau and arrived in Budapest without mon- tirelr and the prineely household was evicted from ey, and without a 'home. She did not return to Ab~ul the Hotel. Bri~tol. Little Irene B?gnar, fed up with the Kadir, but went to a rooming house and began to thnik embarrassm(l; Circumstances of her prtncely marriege, prompt· about what she could do. ly left Abdul Kadir and went back to ... ~h~e··t.~t 11 atg.e 1 .p·, •. This was the very problem over which Prince Abdul /\\! .. ,. , .. ···• ?..~v.\ 'l\f:'11!'n71\~-'Prlnt .. ,.1 1,, tr ~ A' A FEW months ago the situation of both Prince Abdul .L'-i. Kadir and Princess Madjide became so bad that they had to do something radical if they wanted to escape stan·ation. One day his imperial highness went the rounds of the inumerable coffee houses of the Hungarian capital and finally found a job fiddling in the \Cafe Kiraly.\ The princess, too, succeeded in securing a job on a Bu· dapest daily. Every day she has to write a column of rem· iniscences. She leaves the olli.ce at about six o'clock in the afternoon, the time vihen her former husband begins to play the first jazz number in the coffee house, opposite to her office, Sometimes she goes to the coffee house and eats her frugal dinner there. But on such occasions she is careful to leave the place before the orchestra finishes .the fifth num• ber. She knows that this is the time when the leader of the orchestra goes around the tables with a little plate in his hand, designed to hold the money which the guests throw in for the members o·f the orchestra. 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