INTERNATIONAL news wires continue to buzz with the exciting romance of Gene Tierney and Aly Khan, one of the wealthiest young titled men in the world and former spouse of another American movie star, Rita Hayworth. Will lovely Gene be the next wife of Prince Aly Khan? The life of a princess should not be too difficult for Brooklyn-born Gene since she has been married to Count Oleg Cassini of White Russian nobility.
There is no doubt that if it were up to Aly alone he would not lose any time in popping the question to Gene. But when you are a prince and some one else holds the purse strings you have to bend to their wishes or at least take things a little slowly. Aly's father, the Aga Khan, likes Gene as a person, but frowns upon the idea of another film actress for a daughter-in-law.
He can't seem to forget the unfavorable world-wide publicity garnered by his son when Rita left him and returned to America. So upset had the Aga been at the time that it was rumored he was considering making his younger son his heir. The Aga's health is not of the best at present and it may be that Aly is playing a waiting game.
The romance started last New Year's Eve when Gene and Aly were dancing in each other's arms at the fabulous Maxim's in Paris. At the stroke of midnight they startled the several hundred other patrons at the fashionable night club out of their self-preoccupation by pausing to welcome the New Year with a long and ardent kiss. The next day Gene and Aly Khan were headlined romantically.
Since then they have been a constant twosome, seen in various European capitals, dancing and dining and quite absorbed with each other. Six months after the start of their romance, the prince escorted the beauty to his giant castle in Ireland. The people of the little surrounding village were fascinated and frankly interested in every step the rich and famous pair took. The villagers made no pretense of looking out of the corner of the eye. They just stared.
In their refreshingly candid way, the people of the town openly stationed themselves at the castle gates as if they were lined up to watch a parade. Knowing which suite is always occupied by the prince, they watched the windows for a clue to the location of the American beauty.
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Screenland and TV-Land, November 1953
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