The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-04-22
Egyptian Prince Sails for Home
With Faithful Blink Saying
American Girls Beat the World
Spent 100000 in Three Months Here, but Has
Plenty Left Rifles $4,000 in
Bills to Prove It.

Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim,
nephew of the newly created King of
Egypt, started this afternoon on his
roundabout way for home and Cairo
on the steamship Olympic after three
months in this country, during which
he spent 100000 and discovered the
American woman to be the most beau
tiful and charming in all the world.
With him went his faithful boxing
guide, philosopher and friend, Blink
McCloskey. late of Philadelphia and
now of Cairo. Although the Prince
has spent small fortune in amusing
| himself (and Blink) in America, Blink
assured an Evening World reporter at
the Biltmore, just before steamer
time. that there was still plenty
left" and in proof of it drew a pack
age of 500. 900 in bills from an inside
pocket and riffled it,
1t is with great regret that Prince
Mohammed left these shores. he said.
But he promised to come back in July
to remain six months, most of which
time, he said, he would spend (at the
word spend" Blink put his hand to
the package in his inside pocket) in
tthis city.
Il like New York." he went on,
"and / must come back here soon.
The American women are the pretti-
est in the world. saw them by
scores at Hollywood and Los Angeles,
and | spent a long time there. met
Bebe Daniels. Mae Murray, Mabel
Normand and a lot of others. They
are beautiful and delightful women.
But, as "a rule. the screen beauties are
more beautiful on the screen than
away from it
Il am going home at the request of
my uncle, the King. who wants his
family around him. But on the way
shall stop in Paris, Berlin. Vienna,
Trieste, Rome and Naples before talk
ing steamer for Cairo"
At the Biltmore to say goodby to
the young Egyptian was Miss Mabel
Withee. an actress, who has been en-
tertained by the Prince several times
since he arrived in this city three days
ago.
Blink McCloskey, who was busy as
a bird dog to-day getting the Prince,
his sporty automobile and his 25
trunks aboard the Olympic, said that
he asked only one last favor of the
American press; that it would state
positively he did not wear false teeth.
They could say anything else about
him, he declared. but not that.
Blink confided that he had COM
plete charge of all the Princes funds.
You see, it's like this" he explained.
His Highness draws whatever money
he thinks he'll need and turns it over
to me, Just the way he did with this
$40, 900. Then I'm the guy what
pays all the bills. see? If he wants
any money he asks for it, and I give
il to MIN, just like that" Here Blink
made a generous gesture from his
pocket.
We've had a nice and instructive
time, all in all. 1t was very nice out
in Hollywood and Los Angeles. There
was only one celebrity we didn't seL;
that was Charlie Chaplin. Charlie
wouldn't come to see the Prince. He
said IL the Prince wanted to see him
ne could call. The Prince wouldn't
do il, so that was that.
"By the way, this Prince is GER
tainly a demon motor driver. He
took that low-lying bus of his one
day and drove from San Francisco to
Los Angeles, about $50 miles, in
fourteen hours. He was arrested for
speeding and 1t cost me $3.50.