Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-08
Maharanee, of KapurthaIa,
Sues for Divorce and Gets
100000 AIimony and
Fortune in Jewels
BY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
MARSHALL

NEW YORK-Would you rather
be an Indian maharanee-crowned
empress of an Oriental court?
Or would you prfer the role OF un'
crowned queen Of Partisan gay life?
The maharanee of I1apurthala has
made her choice She has cast aside
the colorful glories of life with an
indian potentate for the more gau-
DIV hues Of life in the French capital.
A Spanish dancing girl when the
maharajah Of Kapurthala married
her for love, she has returned after
ten years of queening it in his Pun
iaub palace, to the gayly lighted res
taurants, the theaters, the boule-
wards of the Paris where her we'd
ding took place. New York will be
interested, for the maharajah and his
maharanee paid us visit in 1915.
But she is maharanee no longer,
not even in name. She has taken
again the name she bore when she
met in Madrid the dusky husband
who broke the most sacred laws OF
his scaste in making her his wife.
Then she was Anita Delgado, dark
eyed. beautiful, exquisitely graceful
dancer of Spain's passionate dances.
Again, today. she is Anita Delgado,
of gay Paris.
East is east and west is west and
never the two shall meet" sang Kip
ling more POLITICALLY than truthfully.
For east and west do meet-the mag
netic attraction of contrasts often
draws them together. The trouble is
that they meet only to part; they
clash inevitably through the very diff
ferences that at first allured them to
each other.
Glove at First Sight
The maharajah Of Kapurthala, an
Oxford man, has often left his native
land for western countries. He was
travelling through Spain when he saw
Anita. 1t was a case Of love at first
sight, and, in the impulsive fashion
of potentates, Anita and her sister
were at once--that very evening-in
vited into the royal box occupied by
the maharajah and Grand Duke Via
dimar of Russia.
The Maharajah Is really a good
looking chap-talI, with a military
carriage and a fine pair of brown
shades darker than an Americans.
income of about 100000 per year
and is the ruler over $50, 900 persons.
His collection Of jewels, at the time
he fell in love with Anita Delgado,
was one of the finest in the world.
For centuries Indian potentates have
collected precious stones, and not
even European royalty can match
their treasures. Besides his palace,
MqhQr1 h
serve, a lake with luxurious house
boats and absolute power of life and
death over his subjects.
Appeases Father
Altogether, he was the sort of per.
son whom almost any poor but am.
bilious young woman would hesitate
about turning down. Anita didn't
turn him down. Anita's father, it is
said, made bit of fuss about los.
ing the lions share-his, of course
of Anita's earnings as a dancer. But
love laughs at fathers, and, besides,
the infatuated Maharajah made a
new kind Of wedding present. pres
ent from him to father.
Quite in the fashion Of aKing Co.
phctua, he carried off in triumph his
dancing maid. First he took her to
dIlS anu Installed ner IN ner own
establishment, with teachers to give
her all the educational branches in
which dancing girls are seldom pro-
ficient. Then he took her home to
India and married her according to
Sikh rites.
1t is whispered that the Mahara.
jah's subjects were less than de-
lighted with their sovereign's ALI.
ance to the Strange woman" The
Maharajah and the former dancer
travelled about a. good bit, to Europe
and to the United States. The other
wives were left at home. Oh, yes,
the Maharajah had four or more
when he married Anita.
Wins Huge AIimony
What they thought of the new
pride of the harem" has not been
recorded. Apparently, Anita herself
did not demur at the situation. Not
for several years. And then
She reappeared in Paris and
brought suit for divorce, based on al
legged objections to the mahara jah's
matrimonial in1itatfon-in a small
Way-of Solomon. Not content with
being the darling of the seraglio she
wanted, it is asserted, to be the whole
thing. When her Indian husband
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