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	champagne
		The word champagne can have one of several meanings when stated alone.
		Champagne is the name of several other places in France:
		Champagne Varnier Fannière : vente de bouteilles Champagne & Producteur de...
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	AmericanHeritage.com / Magazine
		A number of people who attended the opening of Mamzelle Champagne at the roof theatre of Madison Square Garden noted the arrival of Mr.
		Along with other prominent New York men, Stanford White had arranged to meet her, and in his apartment one night, she said, he gave her drugged champagne and ravished her.
		After she became his mistress, White delighted in setting her naked on a red velvet swing and pushing her so high her feet touched a Japanese parasol that hung from the ceiling.
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	USNews.com: Crime Stories of the Century (12/6/99)
		But he was also a cad who had affairs with young showgirls and threw wild bashes with women popping out of huge pies.
		On June 25, White was shot three times by Pittsburgh railroad scion Harry Thaw in front of dozens of theatergoers watching the musical Mamzelle Champagne on the roof of Madison Square Garden, which White had designed.
		In seducing the fetching 16-year-old, White had her pose half-naked in a kimono and slipped her a glass of spiked champagne in a mirrored room in his apartment.
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	The Crystal Plaza \| About Us - Our History
		In August, when she was still sixteen years old, she met Stanford White, who was then nearly fifty.
		White introduced her to the delights of champagne, and she evidently introduced him to other delights because soon White was financially supporting both Evelyn and her mother.
		On June 25th the Thaws and friends attended the play Mamzelle Champagne on the roof garden of Madison Square Garden.
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	Chapter One of RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
		The shooting took place in the roof garden of the Madison Square Garden on 26th Street, a spectacular block-long building of yellow brick and terra cotta that White himself had designed in the Sevillian style.
		It was the opening night of a revue entitled Mamzelle Champagne, and as the chorus sang and danced the eccentric scion wearing on this summer night a straw boater and heavy fl coat pulled out a pistol and shot the famous architect three times in the head.
		She had been a well-known artist's model at the age of fifteen.
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	The Girl On The Red Velvet Swing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		White’s scandalous “parties,” known for their over-sexed, scantily-clad maidens and bubbling French champagne, were often memorialized on the front pages of the tabloids of the day.
		When she awoke on his satin bedcovers a few hours later, he informed her that "now she was his." Despite this lecherous start, their affair lasted for quite a while and White took good financial care of both Miss Nesbit and her mother.
		Evelyn's account of how White drugged her champagne and then raped her while she was unconscious would itself have been enough to destroy any sympathy for White.
	www.assumption.edu /acad/ii/Academic/history/Hi113net/Nesbit/Nesbitdefault.html (7826 words)

	American Experience \| Murder of the Century \| Transcript
		Meanwhile, squab and champagne were being sent to his prison cell from Delmonico's.
		Led by the attorney for the defense, she told the story of her seduction by White.
		It was bitter and funny-tasting, and I don't know whether it was a minute after or two minutes after, but a pounding began in my ears, a pounding and pounding.
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	The Object at Hand - Pictures of a Tragedy
		One of Miss Nesbit's elderly and wealthy admirers was shocked by her interest in White.
		Nevertheless, the innocent Evelyn went along with Stanny to one of his convenient hideaways, where champagne flowed and the curtains were always drawn.
		Later that evening, he and Evelyn went to Madison Square Garden's roof theater to see Mamzelle Champagne, and by mischance White was also in the audience.
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	Stanford White (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The red velvet swing became a focal point of press coverage of the trial.
		==Murdered== During the premiere performance of the musical revue, [[Mamzelle Champagne]], at the Madison Square Roof Garden he was shot and killed by [[Harry K. Thaw]].
		Thaw was the jealous millionaire husband of [[Evelyn Nesbit]], a popular actress and artist's model, whom White had seduced when she was 16.
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	ipedia.com: Harry K. Thaw Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		On June 25, while in New York, Evelyn and Harry saw Stanford White while dining at the Cafe Martin.
		After learning that White was to attend the premiere of Mamzelle Champagne, a show the Thaws were planning to attend as well.
		Harry took Evelyn back to their hotel and disappeared, returning just in time to pick Evelyn up and head to the show--curiously dressed in a fl overcoat, though it was a hot evening.
	www.ipedia.com /harry_k__thaw.html (1198 words)

	Making the Musical
		The woman is Evelyn Nesbit, the pre-World War I showgirl, dancing earnestly into obscurity with a vaudeville partner.
		Evelyn is in the process of disappearing, leaving no trace of the notoriety achieved when her rich husband, Harry K. Thaw of Pittsburgh, shot and killed her former lover, Stanford White, the architect, during the opening night of ''Mamzelle Champagne'' in the roof garden of the old Madison Square Garden on East 26th Street.
		Also, Pat O'Brien, who has a couple of memorable scenes as Harry K. Thaw's defense lawyer; Mandy Patinkin (the original Che Guevera of Broadway's ''Evita'') as Tateh, and Donald O'Connor, who appears briefly and amusingly as the star of ''Mamzelle Champagne'' and as Evelyn's dance instructor.
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		New Rochelle — The praised architect, Stanford White, was shot yesterday, at the roof garden of the Madison Square Garden.
		The shooting took place during the opening night of Mamzelle Champagne, a revue.
		The shooter is Harry K. Thaw, a disgruntled citizen who wanted revenge over a family dispute.
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	m: August 2004
		Evelyn, feeling very grown-up, had several glasses of champagne during their intimate dinner.
		He brought her to the bedroom and asked her to try on a silky yellow kimono.
		She spoke of the red velvet swing and the drugged champagne.
	bagandtag.blogspot.com /2004_08_01_bagandtag_archive.html (19291 words)

	Ragtime
		Harry K. Thaw was the 35 year old heir to a Pittsburgh mining fortune, and he had married Evelyn Nesbitt, the famous Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, who had once been White's mistress.
		On June 25, 1906, during the opening night performance of ''Mamzelle Champagne'', Thaw shot and killed White in the roof garden of the old Madison Square Garden on East 26th, which White himself had designed.
		As the fatal shot was fired, the performer was singing "I Could Love a Million Girls", precisely as pictured in the film.
	www.fakes.net /ragtime.htm (2824 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		On the evening of June 25, 1906, he confronted White at Madison Square Garden.
		White was seated at a table in the Garden's roof theater, where he was watching a performance of Mamzelle Champagne.
		Thaw approached him, drew out his pistol, fired three times, and shot White to death.
	historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=468 (157 words)

	Talkin' Broadway - Broadway 101 "1900-1910, Give My Regards To Broadway!"
		Although not an original cast member, 16 year old Evelyn Nesbit, the infamous girl on a swing, became a Florodora Girl.
		She went on to greater fame in 1906, when her jealous husband shot and killed architect Stanford White, her versatile but unfortunate lover, at a production of Mamzelle Champagne, at the Madison Square Theater.
		White's house, where the infamous red velvet trapeze was installed, can still be seen on West 24th Street.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /bway101/2.html (3620 words)

	GolfDigest.com - Ghosts in the Mist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		To put it crisply, she swung through the air on the red velvet swing.
		Stanford White broke out the champagne, and next morning Evelyn Nesbit woke up "a woman." Did Mr.
		White, she wondered, suppose that the girls in the "Florodora" Sextette "do these things"?
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	Early Cases of Pleading Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		XXX's] trial, stories about his case shared the nation's front pages with stories about young Harry Thaw's murdering Stanford White in cold blood.
		On June 25th much of New York's high society was packed into Madison Square Garden for the opening of a new musical, Mamzelle Champagne.
		The show was so dull that people left early or milled about chatting with friends in the roof garden.
	www.casco.net /~mchumor/holyrollers_not_guilty_ins.html (694 words)

	just a girl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		On July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.
		Martin) and ran into him again in the audience of the old Madison Square Garden's roof theatre at a performance of Mamzelle Champagne.
		During the finale, "I Could Love A Million Girls",Thaw fired three shots at close range into Stanford White's face, killing him.
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