A Prisoner of the Harem (1912)

Alice Durand after weeks of discouragement reads the following advertisement in the New York Herald Governess wanted Young American woman well educated and speaking French and German may obtain lucrative position with prominent Egyptian Fare and expenses will be advanced Write enclosing photograph to Mahmoud Pasha Sphinx Club Cairo Egypt Answering the advertisement Alice seven weeks later secures the position and leaves her New York boardinghouse for Egypt