{"id":528,"date":"1935-01-01T01:30:05","date_gmt":"1935-01-01T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/?p=528"},"modified":"2012-01-01T12:51:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T18:51:56","slug":"january-1-1935-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lgrossman.com\/trudel\/january-1-1935-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"January 1, 1935 “Happy New Year! It was the most beautiful New Year\u2019s Eve I ever had.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 1, 1935<\/p>\n

Happy New Year!<\/p>\n

In my last letter I forgot to put a number, so today with the New Year I shall start with #1 again. <\/p>\n

\"LaSalle<\/a>

Menu Cover from LaSalle Hotel (a decade later)<\/p><\/div> Between midnight and 1 a.m. this morning I wanted to write a postal card to you but no matter how hard he tried, my sweetheart could not find a postal card in the whole La Salle Hotel. So now you know already where we started the New Year with good friends. <\/p>\n

But now I want to tell things in chronological order. <\/p>\n

I had a very enjoyable Xmas. We played Santa Klaus for darling Flora Mae. We spent the afternoon with her with a lot of presents. In the evening we went to a movie and then had a cognac at one of Leonard\u2019s friends and we came home very late. <\/p>\n

\"LaSalle<\/a>

LaSalle Hotel<\/p><\/div>I told you already about the stockings I filled for my darling. Well, I never had more fun than when I watched him take out each little package and carefully unwrap it. And I got an extra kiss for each of the 32 packages* and I also received a beautiful Xmas card with a saying just perfect for both of us, and a gorgeous evening dress, made to order this week especially for last night. Enclosed samples. <\/p>\n

The dress was made from the white and silver brocade and the short jacket is red velvet with a matching coat, silver shoes, and a small white pearl evening bag. From the left over materials I made myself a pretty turban. I really looked beautiful. I felt like the prettiest and most elegant woman there. I even went to a beauty parlor to have my hair and fingernails (not bright red) done. <\/p>\n

We were together with Gwen and Ed Bishop. She is the one we tried to see horseback riding on my birthday. It was a great beginning for the New Year. We drank quite a bit and several times to your good health and well being and a good 1935. <\/p>\n

\"Walkathon<\/a>

Near the End of a Walk-a-Thon (Life)<\/p><\/div>After supper we went to a walk-a-thon. You probably remember the marathon dancing. Here instead of dancing these poor people are walking or dragging themselves around for 22 days continuously now. <\/p>\n

Leonard knows the manager and he announced us when we arrived over the microphone. I felt very funny having to stand up and get applause. We stayed only a very short time. By the way, at the La Salle Hotel we were followed by a newspaper photographer. If they print a picture I will of course send you a copy. We went to several other places and came home at 7:15 a.m. It was the most beautiful New Year\u2019s Eve I ever had. <\/p>\n

I better go to bed now to sleep out my hang-over.<\/p>\n

Love,
\nTrudelchen<\/p>\n

(On the edge of the letter, In German)<\/p>\n

Greetings to you all. We celebrated the most beautiful New Year\u2019s eve in our lives, with my beautiful sweetheart the prettiest young woman in the world. I wish you all as much happiness as Trudelchen is bringing me.<\/p>\n

Devotedly,
\nLeonard <\/em><\/p>\n

\n

* In her handwritten corrections to the typescript of her translation, she inserted the Yiddish word chalomes<\/em> before “packages.” But that doesn’t seem to make sense. It seems to mean “dreams.”<\/p>\n

Shortlink: http:\/\/wp.me\/p1yA95-8w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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