Evening star., 1939-10-29
Rich but Denied Happiness,
Barbara May Wed Again
Woolworth Heiress,
Often Misunderstood
Returns to U. S.
BY GLADWIN HILL.


NEW YORK, Oct. % R-You
could have s25 100000 >.
You could have -dolla,
mansion on Fifth avenue
You could have a private railroad
car worth sl2o000 =.
You could travel wherever you
wanted in luXury-London. Paris,
Rome, Cairo. the Orient :.
You could have a $4,000 birthday
party -.
AS a girl, you could have a 100000
debut at the Ritz in New York ). :.
mink coats $500 dresses $1O0
hats.
OF course, with this $25,OO0,O0O
there would be conditions. No con-
tract is legal without obligations on
both sides. Some of the conditions,
for instance, would be that
Your mother would die when YOU
were years old =.
You would grow up In constant
NseAAASSA Va
Your first marriage would soon 20
on the rocks -.
Your second marriage would socn
60 on the rocks =.
Your child would be menaced by
kidnapers -.
Your every charitable act would be
misunderstood =.
At q you would be a Wanderer
over the face of the earth, seeking
elusive happiness.
A Little Matter of S25,OOO,0OO.
A final little matter-your name.
OF course, would be different. T.
would be Barbara WoolWorth Hut
ton.
There might be a little difficulty
effecting the change-but are you
still sure you would want that
$25 100000?
Barbara Hutton probably has
asked herself many times if, given
a choice, she would want that s25,- =
900 00O-her s25.000,0O0. And her
answer in all probability, has been
No -.
AS she reaches 27-in two weeks,
November 27-the curtain is rising
on chapter 3 of her strange story,
and on her third venture after hap
piness.
Chapter l covered her birth. in
one of Americas SO families"
The death, when she was only five,
of her mother. Edna Woolworth
Hutton. from whom she inherited
more than third of 5-and-lO
Magnate Frank Woolworths $780,
100000 fortune Her girlhood,
with an aunt and uncle in Bur-
llngame. Calf.
In 1880 she made her debut at
the Ritz in New York-a reputed
s60000 afair-with decorations by
the noted stage designer, Joseph
Urban.
Enter, Prince Alexis.
In 1881 she went to Europe, made
her bow at the Court of St. James.
and later met Prince Alexis Mdiyani.
q daShing member of the bizarre
South Russia military family that,
during the revolution. fled penniless
to Paris, unfurled some noble titles
t and soon displayed q remarkable
knack for marrying wealth. -
Alexis was married to Louise Van
Alen-of the Newport Van Aliens
but before many months he was
married to Barbara, only 20.
Hes amusing, smart, interest
ing, she said. "All the American
men I know are business men or
want to be business men. Once they
marry a girl they wrap themselves
up in business again. It's coming
to be fun being princess
But it wasn't fun for long.
Their honeymoon was hectic, with
the newlyweds jumping from one
train to another and dashing half
way around the world on different
ships so Alexis could dodge process
servers in some financial litiga-
ton.
For a wedding present, Barbara
gave him string of polo ponies,
and their married life soon boiled
down to his disporting himself on
the polo ponies, usually several
thousand miles from where she was,
Chapter l ended in 1885 in Reno.
Second Bid for Happiness.
Chapter 2, her second quest for
happiness, began in Reno "a hours
later. She Immediately married
Danish Count Court Huagwitz-Re-
ventlow, whom she had known sew
eral years.
And Immediately her second quest
got of to bad start. Her honey
moon with the count was a success
sion of unhappy reminders of her
first marriage.
In San Francisco their hotel was
the same one Barbara had stopped
at on her wedding trip with Mdivani.
No sooner had she and the count
reached Denmark than there came
the news that Mdivani-for whom
she still showed great affection-had
been killed in an auto accident.
| When she went to Venice to re-
cuperate from near nervous break
down, fate put her and the count
| In a hotel roorn tbot 1ookod ocroce