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We Tripped the Light Fantastic on the Sidewalks of New York
Died. Mrs. Emily Davies Vanderbilt Thayer Whitfield, thirtyish, successively divorced from William H. Vanderbilt and Producer Sigourney Thayer, about to divorce Author Raoul Whitneld; by her own hand (revolver); at Dead Horse Ranch, near Las Vegas, N. Mex.
Or,
Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost.
Thus did TIME Magazine once publish social notices. No wonder no one reads the thing anymore.
I was flipping through old TIME gossip, and that page in particular, looking at the death of James W. Blake, who wrote the wonderful tin pan alley song “Sidewalks of New York,” once a sort of Manhattan anthem. (This was before “I’ll Take Manhattan,” before “New York, New York,” and before Theme to “New York,” which is the Ebb/Kander song presently playing the role.)
UPDATE: Here, the tremendous Bobby Short waltzing “The Sidewalks of New York” late one night at the Cafe Carlyle, in the very metrop. The careful listener will hear some nice syncop play.
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