Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-15
Personals

lhVitauons were received this morning
for the Assemblies which will he held this
year on Friday evening January T. and
FRIDAY evening. March 2. in the ballroom
Of the Bellevue-Stratford
The patronesscs will be Mrs. Thomas
De witt Cuyler. Mrs. Francis l. Gowen,
Mrs. Robert Kelso Cassatt. Mrs. n.
Franklin Pepper, Mrs. John Penn Brock
and Mrs. Norris Vaux.
The men on the committee this year
include Mr.. Saunders Lewis, Mr.. S. Penn
berton Hutchinson, MIR. Henry Brinton
Coke, Nj G.. Willing Hare, Mr. Gouver-
neur Cadwalader and Mr. Caspar w.
Norris.
Mr. Henry Brnton Coke is treasurer
and Mr.. Gouverneur Cadwalader secre-
tary.
Mrs North Emory Bartlett, of 2r
South 23d street has issued invitations
for buffet luncheon Tuesday December
2s, In honor of her daughter Miss Emory
Bartlett, who will return this week from
the Hannah Moore Academy. outside of
Baltimore, tc spend the Christmas holt
days with her parents. The guests at
the luncheon will be from the school set
Mr.. and Mrs, Charles Edward Tngersoll
will entertain at dinner tonight at their
home 1915 Walnut street.
Miss Mary Brcvard Roberts will give
reading of Dickens christmas Carol at
her studio, lis North 18th street. this aft
ernoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Potter had as
guests In their box at the opera last night
DR.. and Mrs L. Webster Fox, Miss c.
Beatrice II. Fox, Mrs. Dorothy p Potter
and Mr.. Robert Morris.
Mrs. William ]. Wilson will entertain
at luncheon today at the Bellevue-Strat-
ford, followed by matinee theatre party,
in honor of her Glughter, Miss Mary
Gibbon Wilson.
DR.. and Mrs. W. Newbold Watson, of
Berkeley road, Merton. will give dance
this evening at the Rittenhouse.
Mrs. Enola Ellis Schuyler. of the Glad
stone, will entertain at luncheon and
cards on Wednesday, January ~. at the
Bellevue -Stratford.
Mrs. Walter C. shipley, of 127 Harvey
street, will entertain at luncheon on Fri
day, in honor of Miss A. Marjory Tay-
Tor. The guests will include Miss Sidney
Belville, Miss Margaret Castle, Miss Mary
Bonner Daniel, Miss Martha Henderson,
Miss Nancy Smyth Miss Lille Crisfeld,
Miss Alice Tatnall and Miss Elizabeth
Van Dusen.
The Belfeld Country Club will give a
'The Dansant" on Saturday afternoon,
December IS, from until O'clock
Mrs, Alice Mumford Roberts the we'll
known portrait painter, confirmed today,
despite that 1t Is as yet unofficially an
nounced, her engagement to Robert
Stewart Culn, well-known archaeologist
formerly director of the Archaeological
Museum of the University of Pennsyl-
vania and at present curator of ethnol-
ogy at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
and Sciences.
Mrs. Roberts is the daughter of Ms.
Joseph =. Mumford the publicist, and
studied art i'm France and Spain. COM
pleting her instructions in portrait paint
hibited her work at the Pennsylvania
Academy and exhibitions in other cities
throughout the United States.
Mrs. Roberts has been widow for four
years, her husband, Jacob Clarence Rob
erts, having been an author and instruc-
tor In the Manual Training School of this
city. She resides with her young daugh-
ter, Penelope, and her mother at 32i South
7th street, an old Philadelphia residence
noted for its Colonial architecture.
Mr. Culin is a descendant of the Culin
family who settled In New Sweden, Pa,
in 1893. He was born in Philadelphia.
and is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania. He has an international
and is well known as an author of works
bearing upon this subject, having as well
visited every corner of the globe in the
interests of his profession.
No date TO the wedding has as
yet been announced.