Word: mdivanis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was free champagne. Many jealous Russian emigrés in Paris prudently forgot their high talk of '"boycotting" the ceremony and attended the wedding last week of Barbara Woolworth Hutton to "Prince" Alexis Mdivani in the Russian Church in Paris. The church was jammed. Three thousand people stood on the sidewalk, lost their tempers, punched each other's faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round...
...will sign anything blindfolded, because I am so in love with Barbara!" cried Alexis Mdivani, secretary of a "Georgian Legation" in Paris that neither Russian legitimists nor the Soviet government recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...
Married, Barbara Hutton, 20, and Prince Alexis Mdivani, 29: in Paris...
...Paris early this spring handsome old General Zakhari Mdivani died. To bury him Princes David and Serge left their California wives and wells, drew most of the cash out of their California banks and rushed abroad. Last week Wives Mae Murray and Mary McCormic, convinced that their absent husbands are highly solvent, were in court suing them respectively for divorce and separate maintenance. Brother David, according to Princess Mae whose divorce suit charges "unreasonable jealousy," has been drawing $500 monthly from the oil company for which she "put up the money." Naming $1,000 as Brother Serge...
...cruise ended without formal engagement, but rumors of Alexis' Hutton coup flooded the heart of every Paris gigolo with copious bile. A Prince Nicho las Dadiant, self appointed "Marshal of the Georgian Nobility" in Paris, hissed that Mdivani means "secretary" in Georgian. The Mdivanis kept their peace, knowing that Hutton means money in any language, and Miss Hutton serenely announced her engagement. "Alexis has a right," said she, "to be proud of the title which has been in his family for generations." A Hutton aunt tried to raise the issue of Mdivani Mohammedanism but Alexis' friends explained variously...