Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31

1t can't be done.
just imagine pretty girls with bald
insist that it's impossible, but never
theless they're all agog to see the ex-
pertinent. The walls Of the ballroom I'm
the Bellevue-Stratford are expected fairly
TO bulge under the stress OF the Four
Hundred Plus who will throng there
when so of the dlmpledest and most
charming members of the unmarried set
foreRo their front curls and fearfully
but hopefully present themselves In an
amateur play called the BALLET of
Orlando" with it's setting taken from the
Florentine period Of the fourteenth CEN
tury. The private view of the play Is
tomorrow and the show Wednesday.
From start to finish II is to be an
out-of-the-ordinary tout ut-of-the-ordinarY
play" The most ut-of-the-ordinary
things about the play are the costumes.
For be It known that, according to old
prints, milady at the time of the set
ting was more beautiful than other beau
tiful women according to the badness Of
the top of her head. Differing from tho
monks of the period. who believed In a
bald spot on the crown surrounded by n
thicket OF hair. the feminine fashions
demanded the brow run back as far as
mllady would clip away the hair.
On the back of the head was worn a
tall cap, susplciously like a Ounce cap"
on IL were flappers like the planes of an
aeroplane. The gown was excessively
flowing and to remind folks that they had
feet meath their wide skirts. the ladies of
the day adopted excessively long and
pointed sillSen footgear.
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
How horribler' cried society matrons
when told by their daughters Of the pro-
posed costumes.
II the girls hadn't been since last sum.
mer making the costumes, they might
think so. too, but, they say, they have had
plenty of time to get used to the idea of
them. Tho play is for the benefit of suf.
ferers In the war zone, and the girls in
the Ballet Orlando say that the costumes
they wear only bring home the horrors
OF war. Society is aghast at the thought
OF Its pretty debutantes appearing minus
their scalp locks and with long shoes
stuffed with cotton like Christmas stock.
ing.
DEAD GAME SPORTS"
'The girls are dead game sports" said
one young deb" Not one balked. We
will look perfectly lovely. We won't be
surprised IL we start a new fashion of
hairdresslng in Philadelphia"
Whether or not the front curls will ac.
tually be clipped off must of course re.
main secret, but one pretty member of
to obtain nice new bangs "at so much
per-"
There will be eight real men in the
play-students at the Academy Of the Fine
Arts-for it was explained that they could
practice in the daytime, which was the
only time the girls could, on account Of
parties at night. About half of the girls
will take the parts of men and these are
the choice roles, for it was said the cos
tunes are perfectly darling" Each boy"
will wear a wig of curls. There will be a
loose blouse and the rest will be mostly
tights. To be sure there is n short skirt.
but 1t would never in the world pass
the seashore three-inches-above-th
rule. Miss Georganua Brown. who has
won much local fame for her Egyptian
dancing, is coach and picker"
COMEDY AND PEP"
The play will be a comedy in three
scenes. 1t will not be a problem play"
says the announcement, but there'll be