The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-07-05
Friends See Countess Babs" Forever Chasing Rainbows of Happiness
By RUTH MILLETT

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 New York, July 5-New York so- cialite friends of Barbara Hutton, who have watched from "box seats her pursuit of happiness ever since her $50,000 debut in shimmering silver ballroom here eight years ago, profess to be as surprised as any newspaper reader in Punkin Center that the Golden Girls latest ma trimonial venture hasn't clicked.
 They are inclined, however, to write down her impending Euro pean divorce from the handsome Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow as just one more chapter in the Wool worth heiress' quest for that timer contentment" which seems to come more easily to the less wealthy girls who patronize her dime stores than to her.
 "She always has been a princess of discontent," one friend described her. We never have understood it., but 1t is true that her whole life has been a series of chases after a complete happiness which she seems CO leel lleS Just aTOuUQ the corner.
 Orphaned at Five
 As a child Barbara Hutton had little that child really needs. When the plump, golden-haired lit- tie girl was 12 years old her in- heritance was estimated at $30,000,- 900. But she had no mother-and no home. When she was only five her mother died suddenly leaving her small daughter to inherit more money from the fortunte of her grandfather, F. w. Woolworth, than Barbara has ever known what to do with.
 The hard life began when she lost her mother. She had no home until her father married second time, nine years after her mothers death. And so the girl who was to have so much that newspapers dubbed her the Golden Girl was passed from relative to relative and back again to life with a bereaved father.
 So a lonely child grew up into beautiful heiress, turned magically into Golden Girl. She was made ready for 1930 debut at a party at the Ritz-Carlton in New York which turned the bathrooms of the hotel into forest of silver birch trees.
 And then she was sent to London to bow before the King and Queen.
 Golden Girls Saga
 Her life was lived on the front pages-a gay life spent lunching, teaing, and dancing Jimmy Blake ley, Georgie Ehret, Tony Riddle, Winston Guest, or Phil Plant-so- cialites all. Wherever she went, men attracted by her wealth, and not repelled by her beauty, were drawn to her like bees to a honey pot.
 But somthing was wrong. Bar bara was forever running away - spending her money in Paris, Lon- don, BiarritZ, Siam. Everywhere she went men SWarn1eo about her. Whatever she did was reported-and an engagement was rumored when ever she looked twice at a playboy.
 The Golden Girl denied the ru- mors-and continued to run away going to Florida, Newport-or around the world. Some kind of escape, psychologists might call the urge that drove her from place to place.
 But then she found her Prince Cramping the Georgian Prince Alexis Mdivani, poor in money but rich in charm and quite willing to let his wife, Louise Astor Van Alen, divorce him 50 that he might give the golden Girl the only worldly thing she seemed to lack, title.
 Her engagement to the Prince was the beginning of a hostile press. She spent so much money