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Died. Benjamin Thaw, 47, onetime First Secretary to the U. S. Embassies in Brussels, Paris and London, husband of the former Consuelo Morgan (sister of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt and Lady Furness); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. opens his movie career barking for Sandow at Chicago's World's Fair in 1883, and dies broke on Broadway amid souvenirs of his, the finest shows of the era. His life crosses Little Egypt, Klaw and Erlanger, Stanford White, Harry K. Thaw, Lillian Russell, and started on their way such stars as Fannie Brice, Anna Held, Jerome Kern, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger, and the glorified American girl. Revolutionizing the New York stage he began by copying foreign revues and built successively his follies, his shows on the roof garden...
Governor Landon, decrying the regulation as a device to freeze the tenure of office, gives away his whole line of attack as insincere. Instead of allowing the organization to improve, if elected he would be only too glad to thaw out the present incumbents in favor of his own supporters. For such a man to sit on a pedestal as a champion of reform can hardly capture the confidence of the American people, or their voted...
Married. Russell William Thaw, 25, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw; and Katherine Emily Roberts, 22; in Los Angeles...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...