FINE COLLECTION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 664, 17 October 1933, Page 2

FINE COLLECTION

KEEN AUTOGRAPH HUNTER SECURES REMARKABLE • LIST. America's claimant to the title of "champion autograph hunter' 'of the ■ world lately succeeded after many ' attempts in annexin'g the signature of ithe most difficult "quarry" in America — Colonel Lindbergh — says the New Yorker. This makes his total of famous men's autographs over 4000, and the hunter is only 19 years old. His name is Seymour Halpern. Clemenc. au's' signature for him was the last thing the famous old "Tiger" ever wrote. Mr. Halpern has a note testifying to this fact from the statesman's secretary. To get Golonel Lindbergh's autograph Mr. Halpern wrote him slxteen letters, enclosing a. photograph every time. He never got one back. Finally he tried Colonel Lindbergh's father-in-law, the late Senator Morrow, who said that the hunter might use his name in writing the seventeenth letter. Mr. Halpern wrote — and got his autograph. Mfr. Mbrrow died a week later. Mr. Hklpern's greatest feat was getting the signature of the Pope and Signor Mussolini. The Italian Duce had ignored several requests, but the Pope complied with the request in the first letter, and autographed a photograph. After that triumph, Mr. Halpern wrote to Mussolini again, pointing out that he lagged behind the Pope, and asking what was he going to do about it? The Duce complied. MARLENE W,EARS TROUSERS. C'lad in trousers of vivid scarlet velvet, Miss Marlene Dietrich, the film star, arrived in Paris last month from Cannes. Paris was stunned. But Miss Dietrichirgnoring the warning that women who caused crowds to gather in the streets by wearing men's clothes were liable to arrest, simply said: "I hcnestly do prefer