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Seeking Divorce. "Princess" Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, granddaughter and heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler...
...Dean Smith will go the King Albert Memorial Medal designed by dark, handsome "Princess" Roussadara Mdivani, wife of Painter José Maria Sert...
...better moments. Fools Rush In fell back on the satire its predecessor used with such success. There was a political speech by a stripling named O. Z. Whitehead, who was nominating somebody for something in the Tenth Assembly District. Barbara Hutton Mdivani. Doris Duke and Gloria Baker came in for some stern kidding in a ribald song. Imogene Coca made a sprightly and naughty Salvation Army lassie. Meeting at a Girl Scout affair, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt had some acid things to say to each other...
...flurry at sailing for the U. S., Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Woolworth heiress, missed the boat train from London. The farewell party packed her into an automobile, raced the train to Southampton, rushed her up the gangplank of the Europa. The princess had just turned 22. Last fortnight two princes, one duchess, three barons, 13 counts, one lord, and an even 100 others turned up in Paris to help her celebrate her birthday. For the party, which cost $10,000, her polo-loving husband Prince Alexis had virtuous apologies: "We didn't think it fitting to spend too much...
...lucky U. S. poets by annual stipends of $5,000 apiece. No poet herself but a rich and comely young socialite. Mrs. Bullock had enlisted as sponsors Mrs. Calvin Coolidge (The Open Door, The Quest, Watch Fires}, Mrs. James Roosevelt. Owen D. Young, Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. many an other bigwig, poetic or unpoetic. Said Mrs. Bullock: "Poets must eat. . . . Our entire purpose is to free genius from the necessity of gaining a livelihood by almost any means except the means it was born...