New Britain herald., 1929-11-05
INDIAN POTENTATE LIKES SHOP GIRL
Prize Sugar Daddy'S" Choice
 Shocks Religious Cult :
BY NIINOTr SNINDERS

 demure evasion the worlds first prize gar-daddy has now been re- yealed as His Royal Highness, Sultan Sir Mohammcd Shah, more popuarly known around race courses and sWanky resorts of France as the Aga Khan, spiritual head of the Ismaili Mohammed0ns
 This august parsonage, about whom lovely ladies or many lands like 10 rotate if they can, seems to have fallen for the humble but pret- " Mile Odet,e tarron. candy sales sirl of 2o smiling summers,
 The romance. which rivals any thing out of the Arabian nights. has shaken the hitherto social founda- tons ot exclusive AiX-les- Rains, watering place de luxe where. Of courSe, the Aga Khan was sojouru- ing. How could he?
 \ sweet Romance
 WrII perhaps he can't n'u the Aga Khan is a man accustomed to pleasing himself. Anyway. the story Sbi btt. tllh NIAH ll4t stliltt- '4lt there has come amusement.
 According to certain observers, the millionaire Indian prince, millionaire religious leader. millionaire sports l3an and millionaire What-You-wiil- for to mention tine Aga Khan with out tho 'millionaire" simply is not douo-met his fate when he wanted to buy box of chocolates to send 70 friend. He had 1uotorrd 10 rham- bcry quiet Savoy hill town near A .. 1 when the impulse for sweets struck him and he entered tho yillas. con- . fcrUonrr'S.
 1 There was Odette brunei and baShim, but apparently an amazing 1 ly good sa!rslady. Her swarthy GUS toner looked around carefully and l remembered nor" friends who liked sweets. He bought box after box. for friend after friend, it is said. until he ran ont oI friends and the store was almost empty of sweets.
 But there was Odytte. brunei and bashtu). and she was the sweetest thing in the store. After three days the man with the eye for sweets asked her to marry him. At first she only laughed. aS any bazaar maiden would do but Prince Charming madn himself known, unlocked his store of oriental etoQuence, his string or titles and hcnors and his vast jewel chests to give her some idea of the richness of her opportunity. And, as the story goes, she just couldn't see the poor prince unhappy.
 Too Much Publicity
 Tho romance was perfect until the poison of publicity began 10 eat in and there was much archjng of eyebrows in the casino and bathrooms of AiN-lee- Rains.
 Nothing is settled" said the Aga Khan at first in his good-naturcd way. Later he became irritated, as befits a Moslem potentate when he is pictured as buying sweets. and de. nicd the whole thWg.
 At the same time members O Odctta's fam+y in Chambcry sai, that the marriage was practical! certain" At first the sweetshoI story was all right with them. hu later they said that the prince me the girl in her own home. How the millionaire motorist happened to @e - an invitation 10 call al the humble home of the candy girl has not beer explained.
 1,,.tl. G1lhnnGN1 tI ring in AiN-les-Baius in Novemhe' if nothing further happens to take the coating off the sweetness.
 The Aga Khan is one of the mos prominent and picturesque figure wherever there is gai"ty ant gambling in France. He is always il the midst of social movement il season. Firty-foEr and portly, h' dresses immaculatcly and in th very latest fashion He has prom nont horn-rimmod SNcctacles teeth flashing with his smile an' usually d prominent flower in hi nuttonholo. He is racing onthusias and owns one ol the largest stable in the country.
 Is Fabulou>ly Wealthy
 Thc wealth of the flashing prime is described as fantastic. fabulous , ctc. lies the richest Indian potentat' As spiritual head, by hirthright c the Ismailj Nohammodans, h has followers estimated q five million in India Cvntrg Asia and East Africa Nh make contributions to m . houHc. By virtue Of his control C these people he is naturally fore 10 be rcchonrd with by those inter rstcd, particularly in India. In l9o he married an Italian. Princes Thcrcsc. who died on the Riviera ! il 1926. One of their children died : infancy. white the other a son,
 now Is years old.
 Because of the liberalism Of tN ISmaili cult, there would be no r' Hgious difficulties if tn" Aga kha < were to marry the candy girl. O, canon is said to he that life ' pleasures should be indulsed in D keep the individual from h"in dominated by them, so it has be, . suggested that the domination ( ' love might be influencing tl Charmer of Chamhcry
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