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4 Iff I'll always remember. The day I met ANASTASIA AS A TEENAGER in the Czar's court, the real Ana-stasia posed for this photo. Wa.kfnd of 'In 9 i in' i ifinr- Omenta tm, AFTER TRAGEDY STRUCK, the woman who called herself Anastasia looked like this. Picture was made in Berlin in the 1920s. v-l 1 1 in inieT I md Ii Without Fail! NEW MOVIE on the Anastasia mystery stars Ingrid Bergman, in title role, and Helen Hayes as the Russian empress who finally recognizes her.

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This month the movie, starring Ingrid Bergman, is being released. Both end on a question: Is the woman known as Anastasia really a daughter of the Czar? Well, I have a different opinion on that from the one I reached years ago. I have compared photographs of the real Anastasia, taken when she was a young girl, with those of the woman I interviewed in Berlin. The resemblance is striking. I have met people who knew Anastasia as a child and who later talked with this mystery woman.

The latter recalled details of Anastasia's early life playmates, the kind of pipe her father smoked which would be hard to fake. I believe the woman I met in Berlin was, and is, the true Anastasia. Whenever I am tempted by a snap judgment, I remember this heiress to many millions in British banks? Or was she a tlever impostor? The account she gave of herself was the same then as it is today. Here it is: When the Czar and his family were herded into the cellar of the house where they were imprisoned, the Red Army soldiers ruthlessly shot them and their attendants down. The dead were taken to a forest to be cremated.

But so the story went Anastasia was still breathing. She was whisked away by two soldiers of the execution detail. If they could get her out of Russia, there would be money in it for them. Eventually they did get out of Russia with the sick and terrified Anastasia the woman in the garden in Berlin. Frankly, I was skeptical.

She refused to speak Russian, and most of her story was told to me by the woman with whom she was living, a German nurse who said she recognized her in the mental home where she had been confined. Even her relatives, who had at first said they recognized her, later changed their minds. So, that afternoon I made a snap judg- It was a lovely summer day, trees in full leaf, birds singing a world full of peaceful happiness. Even in the tiny garden of a poor little house in the suburbs of Berlin there was grace and beauty. But the gaunt young woman who confronted me did not seem to notice the world around her.

This woman according to her story was the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II of Russia. She claimed to be the sole survivor of the slaughter of the family of the Czar, a mass slaughter ordered by the Soviet government in July, 1918. Now it was July, 1922, and I was the first newspaper correspondent to face this mysterious woman. An American paper had called me in to look into what might be a sensational story. Was she the only surviving member of the Czar's family.

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GOLDMAN, DONALD WAYNE, Assistant Managing Editors; PAULINE REAVES HODGES, Distaff Editor EDWARD R. WADE, Art Director; DEMETRIA TAYLOR, Home Economics Director; VIRGINIA POPE, Foshion Editor JACK ANDERSON A FRED BLUMENTHAl, Washington Bureau; LLOYD SHEARER, West Coast Bureau ARTHUR H. MOTLEY, President and Publisher WED COUGIiW Medicates as it Penetrates THE SUNDAY PICTURE MAGAZINE 9 1956. PARADE Publications. 285 Madison New York 17.

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