Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-24
NANCY WYNNE ATTENDS BATTLE
tL OF FLOWERS AT COUNTRY CLUB
brilliant Affair Attracts Number of Persons to Baa
Automobile Parade Very Handsome-Booths
at - Most Unusua-Other Matters

,..tie NJ flowers was most success.
~, -, sron, an artistic and spectacular
.,,nt of view 1t would nave been hard,
p,ssood TO say which booth was most
S,o,,s in point of color and decoration.
u.'iN ,,,ore no less than 900 aides, and
~ costumes in the Academy Fling, in
1ioh ali Joined, lent all the local color
~, might be needed for a story. The
ao of the troops who marched on
S.saod street yesterday afternoon kept
- NJ the people who otherwise would
sove been interested in the fete IN town;
81, Philadelphia has little heart and little
.,.,o for gaiety these days with war so
.,oso upon us and men of the United
S.at0s beinR moved down from three
s,dss by their cowardly opponents. So
any stayed in town to see our boys
..orcbing proudly by, praying In their
saorts as they watched that they would
come through safely To go back to the
ro,,ntry Club, there was no tournament
saer all, but the motorcar parade was
,,orv pretty. One entry especially, large
,s.i,ot of brown moss with wide handle
.,od with a huge yellow satin ribbon bow,
,as most unique and very beautiful.
The aesthetic dancing was lovely. Mem.
hors Of the Philadelphia Music Club
danced In group and posed most artis.
,,cally. Mrs Yorke Stevenson, who
r,orked very hard to make the battle sue
csssful, was here and there and every
vbere all afternoon, looking very charm
,rp in a white serge suit and small white
,np sports hat. Mrs. Cornelius Steven.
,on and Mrs. Frederick Thurston Mason
slao lent their support to the affair, as
did Mrs. John Converse, Mrs. Sydney
Thayer, Mrs. David Lewis and a host of
others.
Did you ever see anything like the en-
rakements which have been announced
during the last weel7 Perhaps It is the
runor Of war. Whatever 1t Is, they are
piling on thick and fast and more and
more each day. There were the two
Downs boys and Alice Thompson and
Anne Merrick engaged to each, respec
lively, and now Eleanor Cuyler's has
been announced to Joe Walker, Of New
York or course no one was surprised, as
time to see Eleanor and has been here
for every dance and entertainment that
the Cuylers have given. I rather ex
pected they would announce 1t at the
dinner dance they gave on the 9Th of
June Eleanor is particularly stun
ming looking, very stately and digni-
fed, and has had an exceptionally good
infa xrrad NJ
into society during the last season.
understand there has been no date set
for the wedding as yet.
Is 1t not lovely how Elizabeth Latta's
great talent is being recognized in other
places besides her own home town? Mrs.
Hawkesworth, that very enterprising New
York woman. has gotten up a series of
three musicales, which will be given on
June 80, July IA and July 2S, at the homes
Of three women in Rumson, N. j. the
first to be held at Mrs. William Barbour's,
the second at Mrs. John j. Knox's and
the third, at the home of Mrs. Henry
Caesar. There will be number of
artists, but those in whom l am specially
Interested are Elizabeth Latta and Con-
stance Binney, of New York. Miss Bin
ney is a niece of Mrs. George Dunning,
you know, and has danced here on various
occasions She is as dainty and cunning
IS thistledown and pretty as picture
Is we'll
When gentlewomen so in for profes-
sions 1t is very gratifying to see them
succeeding; and when any one is as
graceful and charming as Miss Binney
and has the delightful personality and
exquisite voice of Miss Latta there can
be no doubt of their success, Then, too,
they have that specially delightful attri-
disqualification carries so much be
fore II. NANCY WYNNE.