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...With this wealth the Sultan kept a primitive court where he enjoyed the favors of scores of wives in his youth, several in his old age, although he begot no offspring. Three nieces, however, he adopted as his daughters. No sooner had he died than one of them, Princess Dayang Dayang,* began to quarrel with Hadji Butu, the late Sultan's grand vizier, over who was to succeed Kiram II. Dayang Dayang won the first round. Since the Sultan's corpse was rapidly putrefying and could not be buried until a new ruler had been chosen, she secured...
...Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman in the flat, Mr. & Mrs. Roy have rented another flat in the same...
...airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that nothing deserves to be worshipped but Allah, Allah . . . that Mohammed is the apostle of Allah, Allah...
Thunder last week shook the abode of the Sultan of Sulu at Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
...Sultan's heart was heavy with pain but he centered all his affection on his remaining daughter Dayang-Dayang?for she is dutiful. Soon she is to marry a Malayan Prince and go to live in Singapore, some 1,200 miles across the island-broken seas...