The original article is in Polish and is based on John S. Hilbert "Polish-American Chess"

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"Around 1970, "The Pennswoodpusher", official organ of the chess federation state of Pennsylvania published a series of memories by E. Raymond Glover, one of which was devoted to Stas"

"Mlotkowski had a special character, but he was a great player despite aserious defect with his hearing. He lived in a terribly messy room in Mickel Street in Camden (NJ, 08105), adjacent to the historic neighbourhood of the poet Walter Whitman. ... his bed was littered with empty bottles of ketchup, the room was full of beverage containers ".

Members of the club gave him many pieces of clothing to make him "smarter-looking" but Mlotkowski always able to mix up clothes, for example, once wearing a green jacket, brown pants and a purple tie...

"He constantly smoked cigarettes" - continued Glover ... I could always tell when my move was good, because then he developed a tic, and sometimes he even stood up and paced around the chessboard, to which he returned only when he had calmed down and I was able to concentrate. "

...Mlotkowski was a strong chess player. Chess historian Walter Korn wrote in "America's Chess Heritage" that Mlotkowski provided many pieces of analysis to P.M Sergeant for his book "Morphy's Games of Chess". (A few improvements Mlotkowski can also be found in the footnotes to the book "Charousek's Games of Chess" by the same author).

When Stas was 42 years he shared the first place with his friend NT Whitaker in the US Open (or at least its predecessor) in San Francisco in 1923.

<Saturday, October 22, 1910, Capablanca faced nineteen opponents at the Franklin. The future world champion finished the evening with a record of 15-2, with 2 draws. Stasch Mlotkowski, then Pennsylvania State Champion, was one of the Cuban's conquerors, wbile Shipley managed one of the draws>

<Gurli Andresen Mlotkowski, motion picture actress and model known as Gwili Andre, filed suit here today to divorce Stanislaw (Stasch) Mlotkowski of Camden, N.J., and Philadelphia.

She charged they have been separated for more than five years. They were married in Philadelphia September 18 1926.>

The <(Wilkes Barre) Evening News> of February 8th, 1935, p.4, quotes Ms. Andre: <"But we are the best of friends," said the beautiful Danish actress who admitted she had not lived with Mlotkowski for several years. "I have no future matrimonial plans - I have not even considered such a thing - but you can never tell what a woman may do.">

IMDB:

< Became a successful blonde, blue-eyed model just out of her teens in Denmark. She later continued modeling in New York, making the pages of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, among others. At one time she was ranked as one of the most photographed girls in the country and considered America's No. 1 model in 1935. Gave up her modeling career in 1944 after giving birth to son Peter.

According to Laura Wagner's article in "Films of the Golden Age", Summer 2014, Issue 77, 22-year-old Gwili Andre vacationed at Palm Beach, Florida with an aunt in 1929. She met a man while there, they married and the couple moved to New York City. She became a U.S. citizen in 1931.>

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0028145/...

Hmmm. So did a chain-smoking, hard-of-hearing, unkempt fortysomething chessplayer, of both Camden, NJ and Philadelphia, pull an aspiring 18 year-old Danish supermodel, or is this merely a case of mistaken identity?

I have only found one cooked problems of his, a helpmate in four in Magyar Sakkvilag, 1 Sept 1931: Kd3 Be4 Ne2/Kh2 Pa2 d4 e5 e6 d6 in which Black can promote to both queen or rook (intended) on the first move.

I propose Kc3 Bd4 Nh2/Kg2 Pa2 c5 e5 to correct the problem as a miniature: 1. a1R Bxe5 2. Kf2 Kd3 3. Ke1 Ke3 4. Rd1 Bg3# and then have a b form where the Pa2 is placed on c2: 1. c1B Ng4 2. Kf1 Kd3 3. Ke1 Bc3+ 4. Kd1 Nf2#.