“MONEY A CURSE’’

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20612, 29 December 1936, Page 10

“MONEY A CURSE’’

BARBARA HUTTON COMPLAINS When Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, nine-months-old son of the richest girl in the world, crawls to reach his stocking on Christmas morning, only two people will be watching him. There win be little, if any, entertaining in the London house of Count and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz-Reventlow this Yuletide. The Woolworth heiress is not happy in London. She has always been lonely, says a London paper. Her mother died when she was eight. She was a lonely child. Now married, and with a charming son, she is still lonely. “Why don’t people like me?” is her continuous question. “Surely it cant be because I have a fortune. That is not my fault. But I know that I am disliked. Such unkind things wouldnt be written and said about me if I were popular. “I had hoped to be happy in England, where no one pays any attention to me, but actually I am very unhappy. My money is a curse. It makes me suspicious of making friends with people. I can never be sure that it is me they want to know, or if they are after my fortune. What am I to do?” Although the countess is homesick for her own country it is unlikely that she will return. She is terrified that in the United States, land of racketeers and gangsters, her baby may be kidnapped. She feels, too, that America has not given her a square deal. Last year her name was omitted from the New York Social Register. She felt that keenly. Now the countess is wondering whether the fortune which has brought her nothing but unhappiness is going to hurt her infant son.