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...FARLEY NESBIT Syracuse...
...Girl in the Red Velvet Swing [20th Century-Fox). One fine day when the century was young, and men of insight were wondering what the peekaboo waist might lead to. John Barrymore took a chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit to supper. He ordered a glass of milk, and floating a rose petal on it. murmured seductively: "That is your mouth." Furthermore, he declared. "You are a quivering pink poppy in a golden, windswept space." John was a poor young cartoonist in those days, and all he could pay was compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl...
Onetime Chorus Girl Evelyn Nesbit (Thaw), pawn in the famed Thaw-White murder 49 years ago, now the subject of a forthcoming movie biography, was chaperoned into Manhattan by movie flacks, told newsmen: "Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut. I live for the Everlasting...
...ceramics show in Long Beach, Calif., a bust of a young girl was exhibited by a sculptress whose name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone...
...Shot and killed in 1906 by Playboy Harry Kendall Thaw, whose wife, Evelyn Nesbit, had once been White's mistress. Thaw pleaded temporary insanity, was acquitted of murder in a lurid trial that was a front-page sensation...