Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-06-12
PR0SAIC LIFE
LOSES CHARMS
Thaw Tires of Bucolic Surroundings
Seeks Excitement on New
YOrk's Rialto

4 A New York dispatch to the Wash
ington Times says:
/ Harry X. Thaw made a sensational
remittance into Broadway's night life
early Thursday morning, stalled
traffic at Forty-eighth Street. mo-
tored up the bride path in Central
Park, and narrowly escaped getting
arrested in as wild a taxieab ride as
ever was staged by movie thriller.
Rusticated While
Harry's readvent into the tinseled
life of the roaring forties was made
Two weeks ago. 1t wasn't like the
good. old days but still it has its
lure, even in these quiet times, and
after two weeks of rusticating down
in Virginia, Harry decided to come
back for another whirl at it.
The reporters saw Harry in a sup
per club on upper Broadway about
the same time Harry saw them.
Step on it," he said to taxicab
driver in front of the club The
driver stepped on it-with one eve
on the speedometer and the other on
a yellow-back that is big for Broad
way these days.
Thaw on Running Board
Up Broadway. through Central
Park, ignoring traffic signals and
plunging around street cars, went
the cab, with the slayer of Stanford
White standing on the running board
and yelling "Whoop-ee." Corners
We're taken on two wheels and a
number OF pedestrians made flying
leaps for safety.
After a chase through Central
Park, Thaw returned to his start
ing point, aglow with the excitement
of the ride. He fraternized with
the pretty little girls in the chorus.
and made a friend for life Of one of
them by telling her:
my dear, you look exactly like
Lillian Russell when she was your
age."
Harry was uncommunieative about
his plans
I'm back he said. land not on
business, either. l don't know how
long III stay.
Photographed for Table
His secretary and his bodyguard
accompanied him. They arrived at
1925 p. m. from Pittsburgh. From
somewhere along the route they
had telephoned for table for the
party. Thaw ordered a 81 dinner
all around, with orange juice on the
side.
EXuberant as a boy at his second
excursion to the deep-tangled wild
wood and other scenes of his youth,
Thaw said that on his last visit 20
New York he was too late to see the
show
This time. he said. he came early.
with the intention Of seeing it. and
would stay right through and See
the night show. too.
All six young women remained at
the Thaw table after the early
show and all in the party seemed to
be thoroughly enjoying themselves.
Thaw Comments
Commenting on the publicity be-
ing given his movements, Thaw said
Il purpose to prosecute any false
accouEts published against me in
the future. l will not submit to any
further bounding or pounding. The
public in general has been giving me
the same fair and square chance
which every American is entitled to
There is no reason why l should be
! treated differently by the press.
Il protest against being exploit
ed in The newspapers in sensational
. headlines and news items when /
have done nothing TO give warrant
to such spreads. l have a right tc
go about my business as long as my
conduct is not different from that oil
: any CHER man. | refuse to be made
the target any longer for false re
, ports and cartoons, or to be the
victim of press agents whose ac
4 counts are swallowed whole by news
papers without investigation TIL,
stories recently published about ms
n are utterly false.
Il gave no gifts, nor exaggerated
$ tips, nor lavish entertainment.
g have been demeaning myself in tn
e same manner as any decent citizen
e | realize that on account of my hav
! ing been so much in the public prin
0 | am in the public eye wherever
go.
AT times l have found it Difficult
to escape intrusion, and whenever
have been approached by the man
i agement of any public place and hav
r been introduced to different peopl
l. l have considered it good policy nc
l. to be rude, bur to accept thes
l. courtesies. This gentlemanly cor
W duet on my part ought not to be tn
n basis of lot of stories made out c
% whole cloth and sheer imaginatio
1t to create sensation.
id Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rudy, {