Show Princess Chorine-Princess Dies In Miami Beach Hotel MIAMI BEACH Fla Dec 13 INS The INS The Princess Eristavi- Eristavi who as plain Lucy Cotton was the toast of Broadway In the roaring twenties was dead Monday apparently of an overdose o of sleeping pills The year old princess whose five marriages kept her in the public public public pub pub- lic eye was found unconscious Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day in her luxurious home on Venetian Venetian Ve Ve- n way She died Sunday night In Miami's St. St Francis hospital Detectives said an empty bottle of sleeping pills was found in her bedroom They could give no apparent reason realon reason rea rea- son lon for fOl the onetime showgirl beauty beauty beauty beau beau- ty to take her own life Prior to settling down In Miami Beach each where she owned and managed managed managed man man- aged the thc swank Deau McFadden- ville ille hotel with her fourth husband William Villiam M M. F F. Magraw the princess princess princess prin prin- cess had more than her share of headlines A taking breathtaking taking beauty Lucy Cotton came to New York from Houston Tex in the early twenties twenties twenties' ties ties' and starr starred d in The he Quaker cr and Girl Girl Up in Mabels Mabel's Room Turn to the tl Right Her first husband Edward R. R Thomas former o owner o of the Morning Telegraph died in 1926 They had one child Lucetta to whom Tl Thomas oma left lefta a a four million dollar fortune Soon after Thomas death Lucy married Col Lytton Gray Ament World War Var I aide to Herbert HooVer Hoo Hoo- ver er The They were divorced in 1930 w r S s J JI Ji Jv k r I i v r dos do's q r. r r Lucy Cotton Follies beauty d dead Rd of oC sleeping pills pills' The f foIl following o 11 P o w win i n g year she wed wealthy Charles Hahn Halm Jr but in two years that union was was was' also dissolved dis dis- solved She was married to Magraw from 1933 until 1940 1910 Six minutes aft after r her third divorce Lucy took her fifth husband husband Prince Prince Vladimir Eristavi They were divorced in Nov 1 1944 44 but Lucy retained jhc e right to the title which she never relinquished One story about the much mar ried Texas showgirl was that shei she I price m c shaved her head so that she could wear a d differently colored wig for various occasions I |