Feb-17-17
 | | Tabanus: Lavieve May Hines? Born 25 Aug 1895, died 25 Nov 1997 in Orange (Calif. Death Index). Lavieve M. Hines? Born 22 Aug 1896, died 25 Nov 1997 in 92675 San Juan Capistrano, Orange, California (US Social Security Death Index). Probably same person. At least they agree on the DOD. Probably the USSS index is right: there is also a family tree having 22 Aug 1896 - 25 Nov 1997, and the name LaVieve Mae Hines. |
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| Feb-17-17 | | Calli: Picture at Pasadena 1932 with Kashdan and Robert B Griffith And another group shot http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics52/0007593...
Seated, left to right, Henry MacMahon, La Vieve Hines, Dr. Robert B. Griffith. Standing left to right, Henry Brochow, Isaac Kashdan and Arthur W. Dake |
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Feb-18-17
| | Tabanus: Some more on her:
1900 census, New York, Erie, Buffalo Ward 20, District 0164: William Hines, 35, b. in New York, ---- Box factory
Amelia, 30, b. in New York, Teacher ----
Jarvis (?), 13
Lavinen (??) M, 4
1904, a poster shared by "pbmendy":
Announcement for Tuesday Evening, Nov 24, 1904:
The Greatest Child Actress in the World
(picture of her)
Little Lavieve Mae Hines
And her own Juvenile Company under the Management of Burdett Milton Garfield 1905 (ca.), clip shared by "pbmendy":
<Little Lavieve Mae Hines, a beautiful and brilliant child 9 years old, whose parents live on Niagara street in this city, has been engaged especially by Manager B. M. Garfield of the "Buster Brown" Company, which is to be at the Lyric this week, to appear at every performance during this engagement in a special feature act. This child has a voice with remarkable range of two and one-half octaves, reaching upper F with a clear tone. She speaks and sings in three different languages and five different dialects. She executes gracefully seven different fancy dances.> -- and some more. 1905 census, New York, Buffalo Ward 20, 284 Niagara Street: William Hines, 43, Mfr (Boxes + Trays) (?)
Amelia M, 32, Housework
James W, 11
Lavieve M, 8
1910 census, New York, Erie, Hamburg, District 0275: William Hines, 47, Manufacturer
Amelia, 42
James, 16
Lavieve, 13
1920 census, Los Angeles, Pasadena, District 0517: LaVieve M Hines, 21, Music Teacher
Amelia M Hines, 50
James W, 25, Landsafe Gardening (??) Private Homes
1922, family tree:
Death of Father William J. Hines Jr. (1863–1922) in Hamburg, New York 1930 census, Los Angeles, Pasadena, 328 Maple Street: LaVieve Mae Hines, 25, b. in New York, Musician
Amelia M Hines, 58
I hope these are all our lady. If so, they were more than a little sloppy with the age given to the counters. |
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Feb-18-17
 | | MissScarlett: The weight of evidence suggests the Christian name should be changed to either LaVieve or Lavieve. <How popular is the baby name Lavieve in the U.S.?Out of 5,743,017 records in the U.S. Social Security Administration public data, the name "Lavieve" was not present. It is possible the name you are searching has less than five occurrences per year.> http://www.names.org/n/lavieve/about |
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Feb-18-17
| | Tabanus: San Diego Union, 20 Aug 1932, p. 5:
<Woman Keep 'Men' In Their Places In Chess Contest> <Pasadena, Aug. 19 (U.S.) - Southern California's half dozen chess expert women chess players faced each other across tournament tables at the world chess congress today.
Arranging her ivory knights and bishops across the checkered board, Miss La Vieve M. Hines, Pacific coast woman champion, didn't take her game too solemnly - for a quip:
"You see, it's really a women's game," she said. "We must keep our 'men' in their places!"
Miss Hines' opponent today was Mrs. Mary B. Bain, Hollywood expert, the only woman victor among the 35 players whom Isaac Irving Kashdan, ranking American player, recently played simultaneously in the Los Angeles Athletic Club.
At two other tables, Mrs. Elizabrth K. Hillman, president of the Pasadena Chess club, played Miss Marian F. Fox, another member, and Mrs. L. M. Hinckman, also of Pasadena, faced Mrs. Alma Wolff of Los Angeles.> |
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Feb-18-17
| | Tabanus: 1940 census, Pasadena Calif., 1814 Maple Street: La Vieve Hines, 38, has job: no
Amelia M Hines, 68, has job: no |
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Feb-19-17
| | Tabanus: And so on:
1943: Death of Mother Amelia M Sauerbrun(1868–1943) 13 Feb 1943 Los Angeles (from family tree)
1956: LaVieve M Hines, h1814 Maple, Pasadena (Directory)
1962: LaVieve M Hines, h1814 Maple, Pasadena
1970: La Vieve M Hines, h2134 E Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena |
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Feb-21-17
| | MissScarlett: In <Pasadena 1932 International Chess Tournament>, Monson gives the scores of three simul games that LaVieve played with Alekhine, which apparently he found in the private papers of hers he was given access to. In addition to the 1929 game above, there's a big problem and a little problem with the other two. Their second game, another Alekhine victory, is dated August 9th, 1931, also played at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. The glaring problem is that Alekhine wasn't in America on this date; he was in Iceland of all places, resting ahead of Bled (1931). In fact, there's no record he was in Los Angeles, between his visits in May 1929 and September 1932, which followed shortly after Game Collection: 1932 Pasadena. Which brings us on to Monson's third game, this time a draw, which is given as being part of a 26-board simul, again at the LA Athletic Club, dated to September 2nd, 1932. This disagrees with Skinner & Verhoeven who have the date as September 1st, although the number of boards (which had been advertised as being as high as 50) and the overall result isn't known. It being unlikely there could have been simuls in the same venue on successive days, the discrepancy needs resolving. |
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Feb-21-17
| | Tabanus: San Diego Union, 19 Aug 1932:
<Pasadena, Aug. 18 (U.S) - Undisputed star of California's post-Olympic world congress of chess players, Dr. Alexander Alekhine, Paris, international champion, today continued to bewilder several hundred silent spectators watching his swift play.
The French wizard did more than that this morning. Warming up for the final matches which will end the seven-day congress next Monday, Dr. Alekhine jolted the aplomb of the bridge players in his audience in this disconcerting fashion:
After a half-dozen successive matches with the best chess experts present, Dr. Alekhine won his sixth successive victory at 2 a. m. Fatigued, he still didn't want to go to bed, and so invited three others to join him in some "easy" pastime.> -- and some more. I find no reports of a simul in Pasadena 1932. The Riverside Daily Press, 13 Sept. says he will hold a simul in Calif. and leave from there on Sept. 20. |
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Feb-21-17
| | MissScarlett: <I find no reports of a simul in Pasadena 1932.> The simul on 1st/2nd September was in LA, not Pasadena (the masters' tournament ended on August 28th, I believe). |
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Jun-18-19
 | | John Saunders: A report from <The Times (London), 12 September 1932> on the 1932 Pasadena tournament won by Alekhine included this para: "The Women’s Tournament was won by Miss La Vieve Hines, of Pasadena, with a score of 7 points, and the Team Tournament was won by the Mexican representatives, who scored 8½ points to the 7½ for California." |
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| Mar-28-21 | | Z4all: Not quite <Calli>'s photo (unfortunately, with stale link), but with Kashdan and Griffith still: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/coll... The name in the photo details is "Miss La Vieve Hines", and the date is 1932-08-18. From the same day, there's also this photo with Drake replacing Griffith: https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/coll...
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| Mar-28-21 | | Z4all: Dake, not Drake, of course. |
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| Apr-08-21 | | bamonson: <MissScarlett: In <Pasadena 1932 International Chess Tournament>, Monson gives the scores of three simul games that LaVieve played with Alekhine, which apparently he found in the private papers of hers he was given access to.> MissScarlett, thanks for citing my coverage on LaVieve Hines in the book I co-authored with Robert Sherwood and my late friend and chess historian, Dale Brandreth. Indeed, there were a few mistakes that crept in to that book, including the dates of the Alekhine exhibition games. The correct dates are August 9, 1932 and September 2, 1932. All those games were played in Los Angeles, not in Pasadena where the tournament was played. By the way, with the recent madness over The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, I have a new article on LaVieve Hines that will appear in an upcoming issue of New in Chess magazine. Should be issue #3/2021. LaVieve. I think you will find it would be worth your time to check out. :) |
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Apr-08-21
| | MissScarlett: <Indeed, there were a few mistakes that crept in to that book, including the dates of the Alekhine exhibition games. The correct dates are August 9, 1932 and September 2, 1932.> But Alekhine only arrived by boat in New York on August 9th, and then took a transcontinental train on the 10th which finally arrived in Pasadena on the 14th. This rather casts doubt on your claim in the book that <Prior to the Pasadena Congress Alekhine spent several days with LaVieve, residing at her home in Pasadena.> If he spent the time with her that you suggest, it must have been during the tournament. But it doesn't clear up the date of this second simul game. How was this game recorded? In her notebook? Dated? |
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Apr-09-21
| | MissScarlett: The <LA Times> of September 4th 1932 has: <Alekhine is visiting at the Los Angeles Athletic Club for two weeks, after which he continues on his trip around the world.> That fits with him still being around for the blindfold display he gave in Los Angeles on the 16th: Alekhine vs Vorkapich / Sawyer / Leimert, 1932 I think it's certain that his first display was indeed on the 1st. Was there another on the 2nd and then another before the 16th? |
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Apr-09-21
 | | Stonehenge: <Prior to the Pasadena Congress Alekhine spent several days with LaVieve, residing at her home in Pasadena.> Did they call their son Alec Hines? |
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Apr-09-21
| | MissScarlett: It was to preempt such schoolboy innuendo that Monson added: <This was not a romantic encounter, although given Alekhine's known propensity for older women it's interesting to contemplate his thoughts about LaVieve's mother, Amelia.> |
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