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Hope Hampton, who traded a silent-screen career for a life of diamonds and mink as the wife of the late multimillionaire Banker Jules Brulatour, came home to her four-story Manhattan house to find a few trinkets missing. Burglars had walked off with some $300,000 worth of uninsured jewels, $15,000 in cash and a $15,000 mink coat. Wearing a mink cape, a cluster of diamonds in her hair, and flashing a 23-carat, $100,000 diamond ring, she could not tell detectives for sure if anything else was stolen because "I have so much scattered around...
...first job in Hollywood as an extra. She soon rose to stardom but the screen could not reveal her flaming orange hair (her one unique characteristic) and she had small success. Wiseacres fell into the way of calling her Hopeless Hampton but that was before she married Jules E. Brulatour, pince-nezed grey-haired film tycoon (Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.), before she had operatic ambitions. Two years ago her debut with the Philadelphia Grand Opera (TIME, Dec. 31, 1928) was said to have cost Husband Brulatour $100,000. She had private rehearsals (at approxi- mately $5,000 apiece) with full...
Unfortunately for news purposes it missed being a non-stop flight. Singer Hampton, too, had tried a turn in operetta-first in Madame Pompadour and then in My Princess. She had married profitably-one Jules Brulatour, who has sympathized generously with her operatic ambitions. There was a two years' intensive course in singing, an advertised Boheme canceled by laryngitis. Then came the debut as Manon which won her such verdicts as "pleasing," "promising," and the noisy approval of some 200 guests who went from Manhattan on a special train as special guests of Husband Brulatour...
...gentleman, declining to be so honored, turned abruptly to Mr Jules Brulatour, who happens to be Miss Hampton's husband, and declared: "Your wife is a most charming woman, my dear Mr. Brulatour. But perhaps it would not be opportune for her to be photographed in an official group of the French Mission...
Married. Miss Mary E. ("Hope") Jampton, cinema actress, 23, to Jules E. Brulatour, 53, general manager of the Eastman Kodak Co., her manager, in Baltimore, August 22. The marriage was made public last week when an official in the Baltimore Marriage License Bureau, seeing the cinema version of The Gold Diggers in which Miss Hampton appears, recognized...
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