Word: nita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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" Hauptmann. And "Nita" Lutzenberg did not like conventional photographs iked to do things and make funny poses." Little did Photographer Braue realize that...
...Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers, Bert Williams, William Claude Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Donahue...