presents
Leopold & Loeb Tea Salon
January 29th
5pm
(salon ends @ 7pm)
hand-blended tea
cakes & dainties
jovial chats
view erotic art
learn everything about Leopold & Loeb
while sipping a nice cuppa tea
hosted by Rick Castro
Tom of Finland House
1421 LaVetta Terrace
Echo Park, CA 90026
info- antebellum@earthlink.net
Leopold & Loeb
Nathan Leopold (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971)
Richard Loeb (June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936),
two wealthy students at the University of Chicago who in May 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago. They committed the murder – characterized at the time as "the crime of the century" – as a demonstration of their ostensible intellectual superiority, which, they thought, enabled them to carry out a
"perfect crime" and absolve them of responsibility for their actions.
The Franks murder has been the inspiration for several dramatic works,
including Patrick Hamilton's 1929 play Rope and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. Later works, such as Compulsion (1959), adapted from Meyer Levin's 1957 novel; Swoon (1992); and Murder by Numbers (2002) were also based on the crime.
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