The Year - 1932
The Family News..:

Rosemarie was born to Rose (Farenga) & Sam Siciliano in Chicago on Oct. 30th.

The #1 Songs Were .....
All Of MeLouis Armstrong - Paul Whiteman
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?Bing Crosby - Rudy Vallee
In A Shanty In Old Shanty TownTed Lewis
Just A Little Street Where Old Friends MeetIsham Jones
Lullaby Of the LeavesGeorge Olsen
Night and DayLeo Resiman with Fred Astaire
ParadiseGuy Lombardo - Leo Reisman
PleaseBing Crosby
River Stay 'way From My DoorKate Smith with Guy Lombardo
Say It Isn't SoGeorge Olsen
Someday I'll Find YouNoel Coward and Gertrude Lawrence
We Just Couldn't Say GoodbyeGuy Lombardo


AT THE MOVIES....
Best Picture - Grand Hotel.
Arrowsmith. Bad Girl, The Champ, Five Star Final, One Hour with You, Shanghai Express, Smiling Lieutenant.

Best Actor - Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Wallace Beery, The Champ.
Alfred Hunt, The Guardsman.

Best Actress - Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet.
Marie Dressler, Emma.
Lynn Fontanne. The Guardsman.

Best Director - Frank Borzage, Bad Girl.

In The News..:
Nazis lead in German elections with 230 Reichstag seats.
Famine in U.S.S.R.
Congress sets up Reconstruction Finance Corporation to stimulate economy.
Veterans march on Washington. Most leave after Senate rejects payment of cash bonuses; others removed by troops under Douglas MacArthur.
US protests Japanese aggression in Manchuria.
Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly the Atlantic solo.
Charles A. Lindbergh's baby son kidnapped and killed. Bruno Richard Hauptmann arrested in 1934, convicted in 1935 and executed in 1936.

Last updated on Monday, May 15, 2000.