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...showman with an acid tongue, he made things hot not only for quaking city officials but for gamblers, juror-bribing lawyers, chiseling labor delegates, racketeers of any sort. He hated the name of "reformer," smoked incessantly, drank, played poker and shot craps with his cronies. He prosecuted Harry Kendall Thaw, kept him in asylums for six years after Thaw's acquittal on an insanity plea; smashed Richard Canfield's famed gambling palace...
...manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house his famed stock company which played in such successes as The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Prisoner of Zenda. He also ran the famed old Madison Square Theatre at which Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906. His last production was The Seven Sisters in 1911, when he was 60. Since his retirement, he had kept himself occupied by collecting dolls, playing as many as 36 holes of golf in a day, dancing in cabarets until 4 o'clock...
...BRRRR! Does the beautiful blonde with the blue eyes in Chicago wish to continue the discussion of things literary with the dark-haired man motoring to the Arctic Circle? Say yes, please. Will be in Windy City with trunkful of icicles October 11th. "THAW...
Died. Benjamin Thaw, 74, Pittsburgh socialite banker and philanthropist, half-brother of Harry Kendall Thaw; after long illness; in Pittsburgh...
...collaboration with Dr. William A. White of Washington's St. Elizabeth's Hospital commands the highest respect of the medical profession. Also he has made considerable good money by testifying as an alienist in legal cases. He testified to the "mental irresponsibility" that saved Harry K. Thaw from the electric chair, to the "mental irresponsibility'' which saved Blanca de Saulles from the charge of killing her husband, to the "mental incompetence'' of Jackson Barnett. rich Creek, whose oil royalties the Government tried to protect from Gypsey Oil Co., from his wife and from...