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...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Prank | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...flags and Fascist banners. Except for some Ger mans who gathered on the opposite side of the Grand Canal and cheered them selves hoarse, the landing of Adolf Hitler at the Grand Hotel was no triumph. He was shown up to the honeymoon suite of Barbara Hutton and Alexis Mdivani, sacred also to the memory of William Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. George Bernard Shaw and Spain's Alfonso XIII. Meanwhile Mussolini had dashed off toward the great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Dictator & Dictator | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

Bright & early one morning Alexis Mdivani, best married of the three marrying Georgian princelings, left his rooms in London's swank Hotel Claridge and drove out to Ranelagh for some polo. No sooner had he left than his young wife, Barbara Hutton Mdivani, flounced out of Claridge's too, and retreated to a private sanatorium. Her doctor announced that she could see no one, not even the Prince. Thus began the twelfth month of the Hutton-Mdivani round-the-world honeymoon. For the next two days Alexis allowed nothing to interrupt his polo (on a magnificent string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 11, 1934 | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

Birthdays. Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 21; Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 21*, With her new husband, "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, Princess Barbara returned to the U. S. for a birthday party arranged last week by her amiable father, and to receive legally a third of the estate of her late grandfather, Frank Winfield (5? & 10?) Woolworth-about $20,000,000, protected by a marriage contract drawn up by wary Hutton lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1933 | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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