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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1955.
WITNESS
FOR THE
DEFENCE
Reporting the strangest human story of the week: HOW A WIDOW OF 71
AND A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG BRITISH
ACTRESS
TOGETHER RELIVE -
A Murder of the Century
T
• Joan Collins in New York this week on her way home to London
FOR HER: THE GLOSBĪKS
after making the film in which she plays
CHINA'S POSES
population of
HE
China, according tu
оп
Na week when the She met Stanford White, word "witness" is a celebrated architect, who much headlined comes dressed her in lavish kimo- this strange and mov- nos, photographed her ing human situation In New a Polar bear rug, swung her York:
to and fro on a red velvet EVELYN NESBIT swing in his studio, THAW, a woman of 71 who, She also met Harry Thaw 50 years ago, was a witness the spoiled son of a for her husband in one of railway millionaire. the great murder trials of Harry, they called him. the century, has emerged Evelyn went to Europe. from the past to revisit the Mad Harry scene of that half-forgotten crime,
In her purse: fifty thou- sand dollars, given her by
the
Bri.
Mad
followed her.
YOUNG WIFE'S STORY OF HER TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE
DRAMATIC SCENE.
THAW CASE HEADLINKE ... DAILY EXPARUS, 1808.
rented
German
FOR HER: The DollarS
table, pulled out a revolver and shot White: once through his left eye, once througli bis mouth, once through his shoulder.
Evelyn turned and saw White tumble to the floor.
THE trial was the censation of
the year;
of the decade. Evelyn Thaw was the sensation of the trial.
Thaw.
Evelyn
Nesbit And this is Mrs. Thaw in New York this week... unwrinkled at TI.
Evelyn slowly tell from fame. She had a sou, she said, by Thaw: but he denied paternity. She worked in dance halls and honky tonks,
a Hollywood company which is now filming her story.
JOAN COLLINS. young and voluptuous tish actress, plays the part of Mrs Thaw in the film.
She met Thaw again in 1920. This week Joan Collins They
castle; stayed at Claridges. also is in New York....
By then she had married a danc dance
but he deserted partner. ACT. She Today GEORGE GALE
twice tried to kill married Mad Harry
herself. But there WRA no and RÖNALD SINGLETON Evelyn: and Mud Harry
reconciliation with Thaw. further telescope time to learned of Stanford White Thaw's family had collected the By the thirties she was tell you the story of Evelyn and the red velvet swing... most persuasive lawyers of the night-club hostess in Chicago, day. The prosecutor was Wil- Then she took up sculpting and On June 25, 1906, "Mam'zelle llam Travors Jerome, hand moved Into obscurlly Champagne"
at some, precise, cousin of Winston California. opening was
Churchill and, GS the Madison Square Roof Gar-
district attorney, a man with a mission poor Pennsylvania girl plushtet, more golden than it is to clean up New York. whose beauty made her the now.
Thaw....
ย
EVELYN NESBIT was den, in Now York-lusher,
architect.
At
now
In the crowder courtroom
in
tho
The defence was insanity. The key witness Evelyn Nesbit NOW Evelyn Thaw has 50,000 model
Dana for Charles
Champagne corks were pop-
Thaw.
dollars for reliving, for the Gibson's most famous draw- ping. Six girls on the stage were dancing. The song was:
She told about the red velvet films, that night in the Garden. She has her granchild, She ing, "The Eternal Ques. "I could love a million girla."
swing. She also told how her tion."
Alone for oncemat a table husband had forced her to tell has alto her wisdom,
him all about her seduction by "Perhaps I learned White, the great Her mother brought her sat Stanford
Stanford White.... table
greatest thing a soul can know," another to New York - the brash millionaire Harry Thaw set with
"Mr. White aslood me to come she said this week as she stood Nesbit and brassy New York of the Evelyn
Evelyn to ace the back room, and he Jooking at the rebuilt Madison
went through BOITUO curtains. Square She danced
his wife. She passed 1900's.
in Thow,
Garden, "Compassion. note:
The back room was a bedroom. Cars, "The dirty
clothes, houses, "Florodora." John Barry Thaw
I sat down at the table, a tiny blackguard is here."
to me," she bald. more sald: "No one can
little table. There was a bottle Thaw's party got up to leave of chamagne, a small bottle,
"I was
sorry hold a candle to the beauty Thaw dawdled behind them,
oor, tormented thing that he poor, glass. Mr
white paused by of that girl."
was even though his murder of picked up the bottio and Stanford White destroyed me." poured Tho glass full of Destroyed her? This trim, champagne....
arch-typical American grand- "I don't know whether it was mother, unwrickled at 717 minute or two or after, but a
Stunford
POPULATION PROBLEMS
By Stephen Garnett
Communist programme,
limit?
the
White's
and
a
one
men for my husband
"Harry Thaw killed tho man pounding began in my car, a I once loved. Men can be beasts, something and pounding, then but Stanford White was a the whole room seemed to go brilliant, kind and fascinating round. Everything got very man.
black.
"I know a lot about sin. Sins "When I awoke I was lying of the flesh are not the great In a room whose wells and ones-the greatest is not to
But the road is far from clear, celling were covered with mang loved to cutest evil
mirrors. As consciousness even to the theorists: and meanwhile the State's require-turned, I screamed repeatedly. why I have no wrinkles."
mission.
motives for
4
White came into the zoom and tried to quieten me. He got down on his knees beside me
"I have no resentment--that's
walked
across. the
avenue,
and picked up the ends of my TVELYN THAW turned from dress and kissed it, I do no: Machisper Square Garden and know how I got home".
This, sald the defence, was Yellow taxis swarmed about her; what had banged on and on in the New York crowd finally ob- Meri Harry's mind until, five scured her. years later, and insane, he shot And the crowd shuffled past White in the Gardens.
the the i
neal TOWS of glossy
the 1953 census, the
monts must be met. of doctrine. At
The truth Is that nearly details of which wore figure for the execution of the chango
what National People's Congress In
everything
with the concerned officially released in Novem- about the two percent increase September 1954. there was 起
and birth of procreation ber 1964, is now more than 12 million a year-by which single and inconspicuous speech child, insofar as it is subject
the 600 million, that is 30 per- the population 14
sprend advancing advocating
of to human agency, is decided by "knowledge of birth factors which have nothing to cent higher than the total and is expected to continue to medical
It among the people.
do with the class war or with which had until then been advance? Is there any desirable control
was made by
73-year-old by the
any centralised planning com- generally accepted. It is
who is not there Shao Li-ta, In Communist theory
Individual reached by including 71⁄2 stems to be none.
Communist and, indeed, had The newest
earlier widespread use of birth con- | The jury could not agree. A magazines on the news stands; edition of million or so for Formosa (1954)
the Large been prominent in the
trol in the West (and it is in- second trial acquitted Thaw, but past the colour picture of Jony
Mrs Thaw A brave man, some have sold, dividual motives that matter) found him insane. He was Collins as and nearly 12 million as the Soviet Encyclopaedia continues Kuomintang administration.
to dismiss Malthusianism, or
cover of the one called..Luc. estimated number of Over the advocacy of restricting po- and Shio Li-tzu may be that are not necessarily sa discre- taken to a State sylum, seas Chinese. By this means
matter But this was not a
of dilable as they have sometimes "reactionary rav-
in fact, a pre- defiance, for Shao Li-tsu him- been made to appear. The idea It Peking asserts her claim to in
"view which Com- self revealed that the Ministry of a better chance for the off- speak in the name of a Malthusian
munists prefer, the view held of Hygiene had since July been spring of a small family oper- quarter of the earth's popu- in Western Europe in the early concerned with the subject. ates more powerfully than the lation.
Not only the cautious ortho- lack of a better time for the cgihteenth century that
bouring
atatements, the doxy of his own Increases mta
parents. wealth of the community.
but other propaganda for knowledge of birth
contro) which has since been appearing,
It would be an even stranger world then it is if the prestige cf nations
or or governments systems were computed by such mathematics. Switzerland, example,
and
for
the
every
and
the
Changed lives
the intimate human decision is the
In
that they
may
of Accor-
Birth control
mnite it clear that it is the What does not operate in, this Faithfully echoing this. the make would come off very People's Dally declares that in principles of Lento
problems poorly, and the Constitution of China, as in the Soviet Union experience of Soviet Russia idea of solving the
and the United Nations would bo
which and the People's Democracies, which count in this field as in left unsolved by Marx
Engels. destroyed.
people are the "most precious others.
whether It may be doubled But no authoritarian
It is noteworthy that Lenin, regime of all the categories of capital."
"class. It operates very strongly even has ever been proof against the At the international confer when he called upon
to in the temptation to triumph
resist under conditions of thought- Ching's ence of population experts, held conscious workern"
"New of Both number of its subjects.
principle population reform. Commun- the in Rome in 1954, the
control as a means Mussolini coupled Hitler and
to better Women" the "correct" approach colonial space ist representatives had nothing fiving standards, also promoted to birth control has been put their claims
to contribute
but the dogma the legalisation of abortion
in forward by a writer who sintes with rewards to prolific mothers that Communist economics
Russia. who showed the way to fill it.
revolutionary
Quito boldly: "All parents hope that could meet
of
this step position
was taken their children will be robust What limit? 15.00
hunger in any sizeabiem
strong builders of 25.00
re- become The Soviet Union also pro hardly justified either by the because of the large number of youngsters, so
Russian or by the short women who already had
in course to abortion by secret Socialism." Do they, even 8.50 moted the institution of "hero. long
China? the Chinese experience. mothers;"
when 25.00
How, then, are we to inter- und often dangerous means..
There may be some truth in Russian campaign for colonis-
Parallel policy .35.00
of pret recent moves in China to ing
virgin the
lands
the assertion that the desire for The history of this and other the knowledge and means- 7.50 1
Central Asia was getting into introduce and publicise scienti-
in fle methods of birth control? methods of birth control in
in spacing childbirth Khrushchev, Alride, 7.50 its
January gave an official One answer that has been sug- Soviet Russia, changeable and dance with
1055,
and often confusing as it has been, "an urgent 5.00 send it to a batch of reclama- gestod is that Mr Attleo
de has always run parallel with masses. words: the British Labour Party tion recruits with the
1954 5.00
during their another hundred million
had some influence State policy of maintaining or that have children; it is men, and
women. in increasing the birthrate,
of them The lives of many Between 1930 and 1944, after even drawing official, attention to the
effect on living standards of a a great deal of discussion in China, phops tapecially tho wchno, aro being In tho
abolished changed. The State cannot put
very women
women into factorice without But Mr Attlen himself wrote legal abortion People's Daily
It that the Chinese Government limited 1954 when
the writer in made discovering,
Women" con- China's declared: "This not only shows resisted all ideas of this kind, divorce
more difficult; and "Now
take that "those who 15.00 that China has powerful that they regarded a largo po generally favoured the pro codes,
whether part Itself duction of children,
production wo feel
would 1.50 force to
from the viewpoint of
dimeuit that she has 'and'
of inside or outside marriage, by it all the more 1.50 also, domnul Socialism, but pulation as desirable in
to look After their maternal health and the power to defend peace in production), and that their at extended State provisions
itude
general was ""'dis» The theory still holds that d' on their work at the same Asia and, the world." -
that de turbing." ithout examinfog
But the State and the future perfection is in sight in tim SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. claration too closely, the quee- In fact, new developments which Soviet marriage" will system may not have the final
tion next arises; if 600 millon were already under way. But be a peculiarly blessed condi® word in what"production
they do not yet amounį to is a sufficient jod appr
ation uneltainable elsewhere? mBROK
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