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Defense, Shortly after Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx with $20 of the Lind bergh ransom money in his pocket, Anna Hauptmann fell into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court...
...confused with drug-store novelized editions of cinemas. The Mighty Barnum is the first film script published and sold as a book. Price: $2.00. It is complete with stage directions, camera & sound details, author's notes. Sample scene, at P. T. Barnum's disastrous banquet to Singer Jenny Lind...
Including Barnum, Walsh, Lind, the Swedish Consul and Mayor. Barnum is still on his feet. He is pouring out another glass of champagne. Now he raises it triumphantly and looks at Lind...
...Farrar career has always been well planned, from the girlhood day in Melrose, Mass., when Geraldine impersonated Jenny Lind and attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father...
...Brooklyn David Lind and Moe Levine, operators of a filling station chain which never signed the NRA oil code, were indicted for having worked their employes 66 hours per week although the code permits but 48 hours, and for improper posting of gasoline prices. Last week they pleaded guilty "rather than be called obstructionists," were fined $400 (out of a possible $13,500). Elated at the outcome of the first criminal prosecution under the oil code, Secretary Ickes crowed, "A signal victory . . . most gratifying . . . a warning to other violators...