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...HAPPY, CAREFREE MAN was Bruno Hauptmann in the summer of 1932 after his wife Anna went to Germany to visit her family and his. With other young, gregarious and jolly Germans from uptown Yorkville and The Bronx, Hauptmann found his way to Hunter Island on Long Island Sound. Among his friends were John Braue, now a counterman at the Radio City Doughnut Shop, and Anita Lutzenberg, a dressfitter for Oppenheim, Collins & Co. "Nita," explained Braue, "liked to jump around and go with this man or that on the beach." It was not long before she was jumping around with "Dick...
...THINK WHAT A WEEK CAN DO," moans Anna Hauptmann, exonerated of any connection with her husband's case. "A week ago we were as happy as children, and now see the trouble we have." Squinting into the police camera is Bruno Richard Hauptmann as of September 1934, Prisoner 128221 of the City of New York, indicted by the People of the State of New York for extortion, soon to be indicted by the People of the State of New Jersey for murder...
...Anna G. Walker Scholarship: Palmer Congdon, 3M, of Wabau, Mass., A.B. Amherst...
Daughter of a Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried...
Criticized for her U. S. accent, Anna May Wrong paid an Oxford tutor ?200 to teach her his. Her vogue in London made her a featured player when she returned to the U. S. in 1930. Since then she has acted in a Broadway play, performed in Daughter of the Dragon, and Shanghai Express, sung in a London night club, made three British pictures, toured the British Isles in a song revue. Now in Hollywood, her next picture will be Limehouse Nights...