The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-05
INTERESTED IN PLAYHOUSE
The Three DiSSimilar in
Nearly Every Respect

NtDndDil WAS NiHdFttitt' t' lt'.h i"
days gone by than it IS now Club
men and others who affiliated with
Hnrry X. Thaw and stanford White
doubtless did mon dream they were
laying up for themselves Is store of
aided publicity simply by being seen
with those much-Giscussed persous
Three Of Kind, But Different.
Not the least regretful OF his ac
ouaintance with Thaw and White per.
haps. Is Frederick Gebhard. the society
man. who first became known to his
ountry as the chronic escort Of Lily
angiry. Not that anything in MS
relations with the architect and the
idier reflects on Gebhard. That self
contained man, though not willing 10
achieve publicity always has insisted
on having il in his own way. and has
been jealous OF his reputation along
lines not regarded by him as possible
to a man of honor Gebhard never has
heen splashed by the darker side of
metropolitan society of metropolitan
bohemia. What he chose to do, he did,
and made no secret Of il: but, even in
dangling after the Jersey Lily two de-
cades ago, he always was pretty
choice of his actions. One of the big
gest mistakes anybody could make
would be to look on Freddie Gebhard
as "boander"
But Gebhard was extremely chummy
with white and Thaw few years ago.
when Mrs Osborn opened her famous
playhouse she had as stockholders
Gebhard, Thaw and White. All three
Of these clubmen occupied front seats
in her theatre almost every night and
showed great interest in the success
of the enterprising theatrical modiste's
enture a fourth stockholder was
Norma Munro. but she didn't sit with
The triumvirate OF first-nighters. Miss
Munro never was disposed to let mere
men shape her opinions Of art theatri-
cal or anything else So White, Geb-
hard .saa Tbaw had a certain place In
the anditlriam all 10 themselves, and
they nlled IT with praiseworthy punet-
nahty
Three more dissimnar men il would
'be hard to find on terms of good fel.
lowship Gebhard. cool. cynical, bit
hlase, bat not enough SO TO appear
crude, stirring slang INTO his slow
speech only so far as New York
clubman need do TO show he was Of
ihe truly elect: not easily ruffied. yet
entirely willing to oblige any oppon-
ont when he thoaght one OF his pow
erfil right swings or left hooks called
for--such was the long-serying cavalier
OF the Langtry lie was not averse to
notoriety provided it was Of a sort
consistent with hi. ideal Of the man
Of the world
eebhard No 5rollerchaser
White was satisfied with no mere
seeming OF reckless living There was
nothing ol the babe.like innocence OF a
Ouida hero about him Like Gebhard
he was Indifferent 10 public criticism.
but he was determined not to be criti-
cised for nothing. II would require
ihe yidle pen of Dickens, not the nut
iering Quili of a woman novelist to
portray him Artist though ne was in
his profc sion artistcaly as he could
reel on art patter in the lingo of the
studios. his attitude toward women,
particularly extreme young ones was
more Ike that OF Bounderby toward
Louisa Gradgrind What he set his
heart ON. be eot-if. in the mass Of
gross animallty OF which his real self
consisted there was amy such thing A
heart
Gebhard had the normal mans fine
scorn for pnrsiers Of "hroilers" He
was no sentmenralist but if he paid
attention TO woman of amy world
the high. the hali or the nnder-she
must be a woman and not child II
Is doubtful Gebhard had heard OF little
girls being the puppets Of Whites
ecceDtdc fantastic in the tower palace
al Madison square Garden II rumors
~ these midnight bacchanals reached
Gebhard, probably he did not believe
hem Had he given credence TO them
rs a foregone conclusion he wohldn'i
have been The friend of stanford
White
Thaw There was an anomaly nj
many respects the youngster had an
tho refreshing irresponsibiliiy of d
college colt just turned loose On socie
~. Yet he betrayed q strange ma
iariiy of ipentiyeness al an early age
Hls world-iamoas beauty dinner 70 AL
me bellies of the French stage not onS
ioAk paris 6y STERN blt thriiled
fhrooehori two henispheres ttc sort
of ncn who look op that seri oi lhias