Word: mdivanis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince David Mdivani, the last of the ''Marrying Mdivanis," landed in Manhattan...
Left. By Alexis Zacharie Mdivani, late Georgian husband of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow; an estate valued at $2,985,908. In 1934 the Woolworth Countess established two trust funds for him totaling $2,251,189, few months later gave him securities worth $625,193. He was killed in 1935 in a motorcar accident in Spain. Under his will his two sisters and surviving brother (Brother Serge was killed in 1936 playing polo near Palm Beach) receive four-fifths, the Countess one-fifth...
Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani...
...Tiflis, few miles from the birthplace of Stalin, in the Georgian Socialist Soviet Republic, at least 20 more "spies and wreckers" were "completely destroyed" last week for aiming "at the establishment of an independent republic under the protection of a certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with...
Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, the former Princess Nina Mdivani, Spiritualist Denis Conan Doyle confided to Manhattan newshawks that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed...