Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1917 — COUSIN OF ITALY’S KING [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

COUSIN OF ITALY’S KING

A handsome woman, accompanied by an irreproachably groomed collie, who registered at a New York liwiel as Erma Wriglft, attracted P« ssin « attention A few days laterlame Saleem, all the way from Egypt, and. prostrating himself before tile stranger, addressed her ’as “Madame la Cotintessa.” Miss Wright admitted then that in Italy she had, been the Counted Mira Fiori, cousin by marriage of the present king. She had been traveling incognito in California until a romance began in a moonlit garden in ancient Egypt, followed her half, way around the globe, and disclosed her identity, j The countess is an American by birth. | She has spent tuach ot her time in | Italy, where under the stage name of | Mlle. Blanche Duquesne, she became I popular as an opera singer., After her marriage to the Count Fiori she spent several years among the nobility of Italy. ‘‘