Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-16

daughters on whose social careers she had
pinned great hopes
Margaret started out beautifully by mar
rying the late Ogden L. Mills, one-tirne Secre-
tary Of the United States Treasury, and Bar
bara fairly well by taking as her first hus-
band Cyril Hatch, q well-known man about
town. Then, affected by the rising spirit of
revolt and emancipation which followed the
first World War, both girls daughters by
Mrs Vanderbilt's first husband Lewis NJ
Rutherfurd), got Partisan divorces and went
TO Dom.
Barbara emerged as the wife of Oom's
first lieutenant, man named Nichols, and
her career from this point on was marked
by tragedy. After the birth of twins she
broke with her husband and retired to France
He followed and in 1927 was reported to
have placed her in a nursing home and to
have asked the courts for control of her for
tune, estimated at $4,000 900, on the ground
that she was incapable of administering IT,
Mrs Vanderbilt managed to get her daugh-
ter out of this situation and there followed a
great deal Of litigation, which ended in 1880,
when Nichols obtained a Reno divorce A
$1,000 gift from his mother-in-law was said
TO have induced him to take this step.
Barbara lived on, mostly in a twilight
world of sanitariums, until her death at
Cannes, France, couple of years ago.
Margarets outbound husband was a ia
nous British spy named Sir Paul Dukes. Sir
Paul was chief of the British Secret Intelli-
gence Service In Soviet Russia during the lat
ter part of the first World War when Great
Britain and the Bolshevst Government were
virtually at war In this position he became
sort Of Scarlet Pimpernel helping many
aristocrats to escape from revolutionists
His services earned him a knighthood and
a shattered nervous system, the latter of
which he was trying TO restore by means of
Oom's Yoga exercises when Margaret met him
AS Lady Dukes, Margaret offended society
in number of ways. She forsook her native
Fifth Avenue in favor Of an apartment on
Riverside Drive seemed to prefer the COM
pany Of Bohemian goats to social sheep. dyed
her hair pink and appeared on Broadway as
a ballet dancer.
Possibly in the hope of regaining some of
the prestige these doings had lost her she
divorced Sir Paul in Paris in 1929 and six
months afterwards took as her third husband
Prince Charles Murat third son OF Prince
Joachim Napoleon Murat, a direct descendant
of the Joachim Murat. who was crowned King
of Naples by his brother-in-law. Napoleon.
But unfortunately her mother and the
bridegrooms numerous family both objected
to the match. So the newlyweds spent most
of their married life in Africa where the
social atmosphere is nothing IL not tolerant
Marriage TO Murat evidently represented a
revolt on Margaret's part against her own
earlier period of revolt, which included Dom.
Then she revolted against Murat and married
Sprague a man from a different social
stratum than any she had previously been
married to. /l
In undertaking her fifth matrimonial ven
ture, Margaret might have continued her re-
searches IN another direction as did Mrs.
Madeleine Force Astor Dick who married a
prizehghter. but she seems 10 have chosen.
instead, TO Try 10 work out synthesis OF her
Dom and first Sprague periods.