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Died. Marjorie Relyea Stokes, 76, one of the original "Floradora" sextet, who reversed the marital timetable of most Floradora girls by marrying a wealthy man (William D. Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's nephew) before her stage success; in Manhattan...
...Grand Duchy during World War II should be witnessed by disinterested observers. His witnesses were correspondents. He invited them in, expedited their visas, got them interviews and a look at a salient of the onetime Western Front, entertained them with cocktails and phonograph recordings of such Americana as Floradora and Bert Williams' You Can't Do Nothin' Till Martin Gits Here. When the Germans rehearsed their invasion of Luxembourg a few days before the act, Bob Casey (Chicago Daily News) put the story on the wires...
...addition to an eminently shrewd performance by Bette Davis, the picture contains pleasant ones by Ian Hunter and Alison Skipworth, as a onetime Floradora girl, who makes Miriam her prot...
Evelyn Nesbit was born 49 years ago in Tarentum, Pa. She got a chorus job in Floradora, became the mistress of Architect Stanford White. In 1905 she married rich, lecherous Harry Kendall Thaw, who already had a grudge against White. On June 25, 1906 Thaw and his wife attended a show on the roof of Madison Square Garden. There without warning Thaw shot White dead. At the trial the Thaw defense was temporary insanity ("a brain storm''). Acquitted of murder, Thaw was committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. He enjoyed enough freedom to begat a child...
...Rosemary". The drawing rooms of the Vanderbilts and the Astors vie in roccoco obscenity. Valeska Surrat displays the hour-glass silhouette which won her recognition as the Gibson girl and the enjoyment of generations to come. There is the Klondike, there are Carry Nation, Eugene Sandow, "bathing" suits, Floradora girls, Henry Ford, Jay Gould and a myriad more...