DescriptionSinatra photo: Frank Sinatra meeting with ailing fan Harriet Gainsboro at Ritz Theater, New York, Oct. 29, 1944. Subject(s): Frank Sinatra / Harriet Gainsboro Location: New York City Date: October 29, 1944 Inkstamp "Received" date (on back): Oct. 28, 1944 [sic] Type: original press photograph Print: black-and-white; 8" x 10" wide. Photographer: n/a Source (agency, studio or press service): n/a Captioned: yes - typewritten slug attached. Source: see notes. ---- Gainsboro wrote of this meeting with Sinatra on page 4 of: The Sinatra Sender. Published by "Frankies United Swooners" (Fan Club), Volume 1, Issue 3, June (1945). (Archives 2015.030.2005) I MET FRANK SINATRA BY Harriet Gainsboro Editor's Note: Harriet is 15 years old and a student of Newton Centre High School in Mass.She was invited by the Philco Corp. to the "Radio Hall of Fame" program to meet Frank Sinatra. The following is what led up to the meeting with Frank. Two years ago, while listening to the radio, I heard a voice that really thrilled me. Not knowing who it was, I became interested in finding out to whom the voice belonged. It was Frank Sinatra, then an unknown. I followed his rise to fame fascinated by the quality and ipersonality of his voice. I kept a scrapbook from the beginning of his popularity, and also have, a collection of his records. In September, I was in the hospital after undergoing a serious appendicitis operation. An acquaintance of our family wrote to Frank Sinatra and asked him to send me an autographed picture which he did. It goes without saying how thrilled I was when I received it. My interest gone, this friend couraged to arrange a meeting and you can imagine my amazement when I arrived home from the hospital, my mother handed me a telegram saying I was to meet Frank. I could hardly believe it, and my friends seemed to doubt it, too. At any rate, mother and I left the following morning for New York City. We wore met at the station by scores of reporters and photographers and Frank Sinatra*s secretary, who escorted us to the Ritz Theater, where Philco's Hall of Fame was being broadcast and where I met FRANK SINATRA! He invited us to the Paramount Theater, where he was making an appearance. It was the most wonderful thing that over happened to me in my life, and he was the nicest person you'd ever want to meet. ---- interior / travel / fans / women