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...simplest divorce Babs had been through yet. It had taken her nearly three years to get rid of Count Haugwitz-Reventlow, her No. 2 boy, and six weeks in Reno to shake Prince Alexis Mdivani (of "the marrying Mdivanis"), her first husband. Hollywood gossips said that No. 4 was already waiting in the wings...
Barbara Hutton Grant, five-&-dime heiress, now suing Husband No. 2, ex-Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, to gain permanent custody of their 9-year-old son, admitted she had separated from Husband No. 3, Cinemactor Gary Grant, with "no chance for reconciliation." ("He isn't happy and I think it's best we part now. Besides, it's unfair and dishonest to take advantage of his name . . . because I am fighting to hold my child...
Barbara Hutton, about to assume her six-months-a-year custodianship of nine-year-old son Lance, was surprised when ex-Husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow dropped his complete-custody suit (TIME, June 5), shocked when she heard that the Count had whisked the boy off to Canada. "Like any mother," said the five-&-dime Countess, "I am upset and distressed." The Count's attorney accused her of not bringing up Lance like "a gentleman and a scholar," explained the whisking: "The Count heard that Countess Barbara had threatened . . . to take the boy to Spain...
Barbara Hutton, $40,000,000 five-&-dime heiress, had a book on mother care thrown at her by ex-husband Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, who filed suit for custody of their nine-year-old son Lance. He charged her with neglecting to send Lance to school, allowing his teeth to decay, using "coarse and vulgar language" when he stayed with her and his stepfather, Cinemactor Gary Grant. The Count also charged that Lance had been encouraged to write coded notes to his mother, exhibited a decoded sample: "To hell with my father. I would like it if he died...
Where's the U.S.O.? The show was a great success. Lady Mendl brought her Pekingese. Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow Leach (Mrs. Cary Grant) ordered some 20 little numbers put aside. Margaret Sullavan, Joan Fontaine, Carole Landis clapped delighted hands with the lesser Hollywood lights and the wealthy housewives from Beverly Hills and Pasadena as Adrian, himself costumed in a two-piece creation of flannel with cuffed trousers and a washable blue tie, displayed his confections...