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There was free champagne. Many jealous Russian emigrés in Paris prudently forgot their high talk of '"boycotting" the ceremony and attended the wedding last week of Barbara Woolworth Hutton to "Prince" Alexis Mdivani in the Russian Church in Paris. The church was jammed. Three thousand people stood on the sidewalk, lost their tempers, punched each other's faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round...
...will sign anything blindfolded, because I am so in love with Barbara!" cried Alexis Mdivani, secretary of a "Georgian Legation" in Paris that neither Russian legitimists nor the Soviet government recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...
...estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate was divided equally among two daughters, Jessie & Helena, and one granddaughter, Barbara Hutton, whose mother, Edna Woolworth Hutton, had died...
Asked if the Hutton millions had not helped on the romance, Mr. Hutton declared: "Maybe at the beginning that counted but now it's a real love affair. I don't see why Barbara, who's the sweetest girl in the world, can't be loved for herself...
Huton lawyers meanwhile saw to it that Barbara's Prince should not become too great an expense. A marriage contract was drawn up granting Prince Alexis a fat dowry but keeping "complete control of the disposition of her entire property" for Heiress Hutton. Included in the contract, but not made public, was the amount Prince Alexis would inherit in case of his wife's death. These details settled, all was ready for a double celebration of the wedding #151; first, in a French registry office, then two days later with burning candles and flowered crowns in the Russian...