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...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...
...book itself is, as a criticism, unimportant. Mr. Thaw has attempted to illuminate the lack of morals of the late Mr. White rather than his professional achievements. But through the coils and crumples of the narrative, through a catacomb of names, dates, documents arranged with the precise disorder of total recall, shapes emerge like people seen for a minute through a lifting mist, and one has a glimpse of the diversions of one of the most brilliant and perhaps the most debauched of U. S. architects...
...cabaret's chorus dressing-room. That June night, after the theatre, Mr. White had gone to the cabaret. He sat about for a while, then ordered a table and a bottle of champagne in a corner of the room. The Floradora tune was almost over when Harry K. Thaw asked his party to excuse him for a minute. He had just seen Mr. White...
...Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville...
Newspaper readers rejoiced that the excuse had been found for reviewing so luscious an episode?relished again the choice memory of Countess Vera Cathcart, self-advertising adultress, who had been Carroll's chief guest; the presence of other fascinating people, such as dissolute Harry K. Thaw and Editor Philip A. Payne of the Daily Mirror (Hearst gum-sheet); the transcript of Carroll's earlier testimony, including...