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Engaged. Dorothy R. Fell, 20, daughter of the late John R. Fell, socialite sportsman and banker who died of a knife wound in Java last winter (TIME, March 6). and of Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of President Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Mills); and Woolworth Donahue, 18, 5? & 10? heir (grandson...
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...
...size of the groom's settlement set the world wondering at the size of the bride's fortune. When the late Frank Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate...
Barbara Hutton's inheritance at that time consisted of some 175,000 shares of Woolworth common stock. Trustees have traded it back and forth, sold large blocks of it. Financial sleuths estimate her fortune as of 1933 may have dropped to a market value of $20,000,000, of which the income might be $1,000,000 before taxes, a tidy sum but not to be compared with the inheritance of Heiress Doris Duke ($53,000,000), still fair game for the rest of Russia's aristocracy...
...married to Louise Astor van Alen, great-granddaughter of the late, great Mrs. William Astor, drum major of the famed 400. When she divorced him Alexis, undaunted, drifted over to Paris, then had the inspiration of plunging around the world to Bangkok, where Miss Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5#162; amp; 10#162; store millions, was due to arrive on a world cruise...