Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-10

After Spending a Month Among the
Concubines of Burmese Prince Aimee
Came Away With So Much Loot IL Took
an Elephant to Garry 1t.
age on the spot Aimee accepted.
A month later she emerged laden with
gifts: Strings of pearls, diamond neck
laces, boxes full OF assorted sapphires and
emeralds, cloth Of gold dresses ETC.. ETC.
The problem of transporting this hoard
was so acute that the prince was moved
to throw in an elephant, not to mention
pair of bejeweled gates, which he thought
would be nice memento of her visit.
Evidently feeling that the time had now
come to put aside worldly things and con-
centrate on the spiritual aspects of her trip
Aimee checked her baggage through TO India
and spent month all by herself living in a
tent in Tibet. This modification of the flesh
was rewarded by another visit from the
Apollo-like figure.
She spoke to it. asking who 1t was and
this time, thanks perhaps to her diligence in
picking up enough of the native tongues was
able to understand its reply.
II am you" said the figure.
Me-" said Aimee startled What do
you mean"
You have a masculine SOUL" said the
figure (this must have come a shock,
after her experiences with the prince). I'm
your next incarnation you will be a man. just
such a one l."
Then. after prophesying rather incon-
gruously that In her present incarnation she
would be allowed twelve husbands, she said,
the apparition warned her:
AS parting word the golden vision added
that he would appear to her once more, just
before her death. and moved off across the
barren Tibetan plains.
Twelve husbands seemed TO allow so much.
scope that in India Aimee felt safe in running
through six more, none of whom, however,
was taken on with benefit of Western clergy.
These, plus Ashe. Gillig and the Burmese
potentate made a total Of nine.
With three still to GO she returned 70 her
homeland and was astonished and panied when
Gilig met her at the dock, announcing that
he had heard a little about her adventures
some OF her original retinue had drifted back
and wanted a divorce
Aimee obliged him, and soon afterwards.
made Jackson Gouraud, well-known song
writer and man about- New-Y York. her third
Occidental spouse, tenth international one.
When Gouraud died in 1910 she swore that
his should be the name she too would die
with and that she would never wed again.
AS it turned out the first of these vows
was fulfilled but not the second, for in 1914
she celebrated the outbreak of war by marry
ing a Russian prince named Alexander Mlskln-
off Miskinoff disappointed her, not only In
respect to his title, which was bogus, but
also by falling in love with young girl named
Yvonne Gouraud whom Aimee and her previ-
Gus husband had adopted
So Aimee divorced Miskinoff, naming
YVonne correspondent
With only one husband to go-short, that
is. of the one she had no desire to be buried
by-she took pains TO remain single for the
next ten years, then became orlde tor lhe
twelfth and last time
The lucky man was half her age, another
Russian prince, genuine and named Alex
ander Galitzine II came out ironically enough
M the divorce which followed two years later
that she had taken every precaution 10 ensure
the success of her last match.
After convincing herself that his title was
bona fide the prince charged, she hao drawn
lid prenuptial contract IN which she hired-
the use of that same title as well as TO
limited extent, of his person, for $3.50 month
One of the terms of the agreement, it was
alleged was that he should dance with her a
couple of hours each day.
The prince professed himself hurt and be-
wildered when she obtained a divorce on
grounds of infidelity. How, he logically
enough asked, could there be infidelity in a
marriage not for love?
Disillusoned, Aimee secluded herself in
her Partisan mansion, which she had named
The House Of Fantasy. 1t was surrealist
abode. filled with Dali-esque touches. such as
a toy railroad on the dining room table, and
the precious souvenirs of her travels the
jeweed gates the clothing. the Buddhas.
It was filled also with twenty or thirty feet
of her pet python, Prince Paul, who would
ruin the appetites of guests by coiling next to
her at dinner.