New Britain herald., 1930-11-14
Richest Debs Wait Their Fmst Season

New York, Nov. 14 Pl-Two of | Americas richest heiresses are mak- ing their bows to New York society | this winter in the splendor which | wealth bestows.
 | Doris Duke, golden-haired and blue-eyed, who inherits from her | father, James B. Duke, tobacco mag nate a fortune variously estimated
 from s50,000,000 to s10G,000,O00,
 has already stepped into the lime light with a presentation at Buck | ingham Palace and an initial debut
 at her family estate in Newport this
 summer.
 ] Barbara Hutton. dark haired grand daughter of Frank W. Wool ! worth. and heiress to the estimated | s60, o00.000 which he glcaned from
 chain of nickel and dime empori-
 ums. will make her first bow De- cember 22, at a ball in the new Hotel Pierre in New York.
 Both have been quietly, though | luxuriously, reared both are Is; both possess simplicity and charm of manner and both will move in a l brilliant spotlight on which the eyes
 of the world are focused. The spotlight flashed on Doris | Duke five years ago with her fathers death when, as a slim girl of thir- teen. she became known as the heiress to the vast wealth which he founded on tobacco and increased in l the aluminium industry.
 A Fifth Avenue home. appraised
 with it's contents at s1,60O.0O0. o,O0O acre estate at Somerville. N. j.. the family home Rough Point" at Newport. R. l.. a private Pullman car with Doris" glider on the panelling, motor cars and horses were among the things included in that wealth. Yet, a few months later when she and her mother sailed for Europe, they selected first cabin. entirely lacking the ostentation of a suite. Camera men. who hadn't the ghost of an idea who she was, were at tracted by the girls smile as she watched celebrities being photo graphed before departure. and asked to take her picture. They dis covered her identity only when that ceremony was over.
 Doris Dukes love is sports. She svims. plays tennis. and as child dashed up and down the New Jersey country roads on a Shetland pony, which is now replaced by a gaitcd saddle horse. Recently she joined dancing class with other sub debs and could be found several mornings week clogging away for dear life.
 Last spring she donned white satin gown and ostrich feathers and and Queen Mary.
 Then came her debut at her home in Newport. A large marquee. lined with smiax and hung with baskets Of golden gladioli. received the 500 guests. while trees and gardens were flooded with colored lights and searchlights played over the waves that broke against the shore near her home.
 This winter she Will loln throng of almost 800 debutantes and will he the guest of honor at number of festivities which go 10 make the New York debutante season the gay est in America.
 Barbara Hutton stepped into the
 imelight four years ago when her trustees acting for her, sold 5o,000 shares (s10,00o. .000 worth) of com mon stock in the Woolworth com pany. which she had inherited from her grandfather who started his first five ten-cent store on a bor- roved $35o. It constituted one of the largest private stock transactions which Wall Street had ever seen and interest focused on the young girl in whose name the sale was made.
 During her sub-deb days she has lived quietly. but this fall her father and stepmother-her mother died few years ago-are deep in plans for her debutante festivities. which start with a whirl three days before Christmas.