The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
But Barbara Hutton Still Is
Single, Despite Pleas
of Princes.

OillYlG, UeSpllC TlCdo
of Princes.
BY DOUGLAS GILBERT
Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, May 31-The LATE
Frank w. Woolworth cut up" as
the English say. for $59,O0000O. OF |
this his granddaughter, Barbara |
Hutton, the 1lVe-and-ten girl, re-
ceived third.
She too, has felt the chill Of |
these sere and yellow times; proba
bly, she isn't worth today a chain
store sales check above $1O000,000.
1t isn't the money that makes
Barbara important. 1t is her ro
mantle fair, plus a curious social |
significance. She is our best known |
play-girl.
Right now she is prominent in
the headlines. reported one day as
ready to wed and the next day with
marriage far from her mind.
She is pretty, very desirable mot |
alone for her dough-, unmarried
and 81; buXom, comely lass as you
observe her, swaying to the soft |
susurrouS of Meyer Davis strings at
party.
She's Scrappy Blonde
A blue-eyed baby blonde, she is
the ultra of our poor little rich girls
whose exceeding femininity gives
the necessary lift to the run of the
mill news of markets and politics,
murders and theftS.
So, in a week or two, when she is
expected to return from her South
Seas cruise, which has taken her to
Paris, her blithe smile will beckon
from page one of our newspapers,
as it has so many other times.
Little is known of her child
hood, upbringing, schools, pinafores
or ponies. She was not the worlds
richest baby and no photographs
exist of her with pail and shovel
toying on the golden sands of any
beach. The press never babied the
baby.
Franklin Laws Hutton, her IA
Their, was an estimable Wall street
broker associated with his brother
in the firm of E. F. Hutton a. Co.
And a lively one, according to a de-
lightfully mellow clip from the New
York Herald of 1908.
He Danced Well
Under the head, Can Clog Well,
a story sets forth his heel-and-toe
proves on the floor of the EX-
change. An illustration accompany
ing the article further atteStS his
nimble grace.
The year before Mr.. Hutton mar
ried Edna Woolworth, and the nup-
tials, of course, rated social men
ton in the 1907 news columns. Bar
bara'S birth in 1912, however, seems
to have escaped public notice.
Apparently. the Huttons were liv-
ing simple life of social quiet un-
til the tragic death of BarbaraS
mother in 1917, an instance unusual
to medical science.
Mrs. Hutton then was living at the
Plaza hotel. On May 2 maid en-
tered her room and found her dead
on the floor. Coroner Feinberg
found that she had died of an ear
ailment which, curiouSly, caused
Suffocation. The infection, he said,
hardened the bones of the ear, caus-
ing severe contraction of the tongue
muscles.
WEEDS Detroit Divorce
Hutton remained a widower until
1926, when he married Mrs. Irene
Bodde. Detroit divorce. Barbara,
who lives with her father and STEP
mother at 1920 Fifth avenue, con-
tinued to be just Sub-deb, provid-
ing, by her and her parents quiet
life, no copy" for the newspapers.
Besides, Woolworth had two other
daughters, who married, and it was
not to be foreseen that for Barbara
only, of the issue of those mar
riages, the Woolworth cash register
ultimately would ring up hundred
million dimes.
Her run-arounds nettle the curl
GUS and puzzle her friends. Why
the hell can't she be happy in New
York;" they ask.
Likes Globe Trotting
Sober reaSoners figure her globe
trotting too be some sort of an es-
cape. though from what they throw
up their hands. If her getaway
from-it-au tours are designed to
free her from the 'entangling alh-
ances" meanies forever are cooking
up against her they are futile.
The cable tolls reporting her al
legged romances while abroad would
meet the cost Of another debut.
Currently she is reported to be
accepting the advances of Alexis
Mdivani, of the Georgia BLACK Sea- |
MdiyaniS, a wholesale line of prin-
ces, object matrimony.
Alexis brother, Prince David, |
was the husband of Mae Murray.
Another brother. Prince Serge, mar
ried Pola Negri. Both women, if
your memory is taxed, were motion
picture actresses.
Anyway, Alexis. whose former
wife, Louise Astor Van Allen, Of New