Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-10
NANCY WYNNE CHATS ABOUT THE
VARIED DOINGS OF SOCIETY
Red Cross Workers to Give Ball in Aid of Hospital in
Lenox-Y Yachting Parties Arrive at Pier and
Newport-Several Incidents

.nt,1 PtIIANS as well as men
ps women from other cities who are
..d,ne the summer at Lenox' Mass
sreatly interested in the entertain
which will be given by the benox
"' Of the American Red Cross In
p',ou Hall on September Is and 16.
seue .,so,r will be given to raise funds
lH' porkshire base hospital. There will
iO' anr,her of speciality dances on the
sram. including Mexican dance Tor
W., Marshall Kernochan has written
r''S, ,,s,o and Civllise Alexandra and
,.n, ny hamilton Russell will dance;
oroce Bristed will do a solo Polish
inu rhare will also be pictures,
M o,e.. ro always an attraction. Do you
W., ..or,ber the wonderful copies OF paint
~. which were given here two seasons
ins' 4, the "Madein-America" Fete
atV Argelica Brown, of New YORK,
"no - and was such a charming copy
o,d.fashioned painting, and all OF
o. o. ,,,ost maids and matrons appeared
)" .,orderful pictures or in oriehtai cos
-. = the like of which have not neeh
since; that is, all at one timer
'esn ,.,ful Mrs. Joe Widener is at pres
.,.vine at Lenox and is Interested
:. .n' ,,,rse in everything going.
:. hard to know just what reports
and what not, about the re-
There is Narragansett' tor III
sV which has always been the cen
~ =, social doings in the season. ana 10
=. MANY Of the gayest Of the younger
VIZ ma cot go. One reads very long ac'
niAll - tennis and polo attractions
eOuA ,nd Of a dance or so now ana
mn a. but somehow the fact thet SO
-, ~ the men are down In I'll faso
"a "among those absent" at very many
t,,nctions makes difference ana
o. '.' ,r,,o of Narragansett is true OF
every resort ~ or+,os bove
.,onned off at the Pier however anu
"a ,,,e,r ouota of gayety to the oeaut'iu'
-s.ort The Dales, who were thele vi,
errday, have moved on to newport anu
- f,rther up the coast George
Vs.. ss and his guests were all at Nara,
0oO -, from their yacht on Tuesday ana
=. Forest Hicks and e. p HICKS ar
.,vsd on their yacht Eleanor that SAME
day. ., ,,.
Horace Hare is staying up there now
and the Ben Chews gave dinner in his
honor ON Tuesday night. 1 never see
Horace Hare's name that 1 do not thlnK
~ one Of his performances out at WILLOW
c,ovc was told about 1t, and l be-
iIeye II happened many years ago. out II
q none the less interesting. Horace ana
/. hrnch Of other men and girls went out
.hora one evening and naturally took In
nil the stunts. All went we'll until theS
boarded a boat to go through Venice
understand it was Well, at one place
"a YOU come out of the tunnel you passeu
a small stretch of beach with pathers
ssated thereon, and rs the boat went oy'
an trimmed Horace and, of course, the
vdide could not stop, so there he stoou'
s,Ing that he was Robinson Crusoe'
and wouldn't some one get on and pc lhe
goat or Friday to all the boat passengers
who passed by, for, of course they kept
coming until the one he had been on
rea chad the end. Then all traffic was
held up until boat came through alone
and the erring Horace was removed py
an exceedingly angry guide, who did not
the fun of the situation,
though all the others of the party ana
the other boat riders were highly diverted
by his antics. Horace is now an older
and wiser man, but guess he does not
mind looking back to that night when
he was the joy of the party; he Is sun
4 ioy. though, for that matter.
! NANCY WYNNE.