FORTUNE FOR SMILES
LIVED IN MAN’S MEMORY. CHILD-DANCER’S LEGACY. Hannah Gruber, now Mrs. Medoff, of Brooklyn, has just learnt that she has been left a legacy of £30,000 as a reward for a smile of 20 years ago, states the New York correspondent of the London People. ' At that time, Hannah, then a child of eleven, was dancing at a charitable institution in the East Side hefe. Dr. Howard Louraine, a bachelor philanthropist, was one of the patrons of the institution. As Hannah danced, she gave Louraine a smile which seemed to him to be the essence of childhood’s charm. Doctor and child never saw each other again, but the smile lingered in the man’s memory.
Now his lawyers have informed Mrs. Medoff that he has left hey £-30,000. Shortly after seeing the smile that so
enchanted him, the doctor left New York for Chicago, where he amassed a fortune of £400,000.
Being a bachelor without relatives, he left his money to those who had given him happiness. Among them was the sunny-haired child who hadn’t even knoivn what joy she had brought to the middle-aged doctor.
The Medoff family, who are in humble circumstances, will leave Brooklyn to live in Park Avenue, New York’s most fashionable street.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)
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