The Archive · 1938

The Unhappy Rich

The affairs of the Haugwitz-Reventlow menage may shortly be aired in Bow Street Police Station, for it is reported now that the Count has started for London to surrender himself to the police and face the charges brought against him by his wife, nee Barbara Hutton. It will be remembered that when the ease came before the magistrate on Wednesday the press and the public were excluded from the Cotrt for what reason the cables fail to state. Undoubtedly the magistrate has power in certain instances to sit in camera and marital cases come within tat definition. That, however, will not pre-ut the matter receiving an undue amount of publicity, for while the newspapers will probably not be permitted to print accounts of the hearing, they are allowed to publish the result, Apart from that the sensational press may be relied upon to give the matter all the publicity they possibly can, for the Countess, owing to her great wealth is regarded by them as making news for which the whole world will breathlessly wait. Had she and her husband been people of ordinary i it received any publicity at all, would probably have been dismissed with a three line paragraph tucked away at the bottom of a column. But such as the Countess whatever choice reading for the multitudes. be many compensations in being the

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