Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-29


IL playhouse which the Plays and Play
ers will erect on Ludlow street between
Nineteenth and Twentieth before next
fall? They really are most comprehensive
and as I gaze upon. them n vision floats
before mine eyes of the good times which
will be Forthcoming when the club nights
take place there and the contest plays are
eiven and all the well-known celebrities
NJ this famous little club will appear in
The various plays and affairs given dur.
ing n gay and full season.
The site has been found, and as the
circular sent out this week says, "1f this
action is adequately supported by the
nembers the club will be able to ring up
next autumn in it's own house, commo.
dious, attractive and centrally located"
For, you see there is still some cash
needed to build on the property pur.
chased.
| think ! will quote to you the rest
ef this letter of the secretary, for it
tells about the location the proposed
buildings, etc: THE Chestnut and Market
street car lines, with their diverginC
north and south branches, pass within
half square of the site, and the Nine
teenth street line within an even shorter
distance: while the subway station at
Nineteenth and Market streets, within
the same radius, gives access to the exist.
ing and proposed high-speed lines, con.
Meeting with all the outlying districts of
the city and suburbs.
"The buildings already on the site are
extraordinarily available for use in the
construction of the clubhouse, which, If
completed in accordance with copies of
plans have been sent to each member)
plans will take the shape of n building
eixty-siX feet in front and one hundred
and four feet in depth, with one street
in front and another in the rear and
ten-foot-wide space on each side, afford
ing light and air on all four sides"
The proposed stage is to be twenty-five
feet deep and forty-eight feet wide, they
tell me. with a proscenium opening of
thirty feet, the same as that of the
Adelph Theatre. There will he seating
room for 400 persons and there will be
ten dressing rooms. storage space for
scenery and properties There is also
plan to make the seats removable, that
the floor may be cleared for receptions,
dances or other entertainments.
The plans also show library, dressing
room for guests and a kitchen on the
first floor: and a clubroom, rehearsal room
and delightful soarium on the second
floor. Altogether, you will agree, the
Plays and Players will have the wish of
their hearts for these many years when
this clubhouse is finally accomplished.
Further plans will be discussed at the
club nights tonight and tomorrow at the
present playroom on Eighteenth street.
NOW what on earth do you think is the
~ latest? The women on the board of
the jefferson Hospital, who will give the
great, huge and enormous rummaGe sale
next week in the Hale Building, nave
been given carload of coal and they
are going to sell it under price. Can't
you see Mrs. Altemus, Mrs Dave Lewis
and Mrs. Hobart Hare dealing out hunks
of coal at two cents per coal, so to speak,
But it "ain't going to be did" that way.
No, indeed; you give your order and you
get your coal right up in front of your
door Then besides coal, I'm told, there
are to be other mnerals-precious min
erals at that-for jewels are to he sold If
you please Who knows but what dia-
mond necklaces may sell at ten cents or
some such marvellous amount? You never
can tell, you know; for so anxious are
: the women working in this cause to make
II a success that not only will articles
..I.lN l-,,t
which are secondhand be available nut
many a brand new thing will be for sale
--parasols and top coats, Easter hats and
suits. evening frocks, vegetables, onions,
potatoes-just think of it, dream or 1t!
all the wonderful. marvellous exquisite
and magniferous articles de virtu Oh
yes: quite so, indeed very much so.
Why, / for one can scarcely wait TIL
the doors are opened on Tuesday morn
Ing that l may burst in and buy all my
Easter presents, all my Christmas pres
ents for next year, all my engagement
and wedding presents for years to come
and not spend more thar about ten
plunks. / tell you, it's an opportunity
which should not be passed over.
NANCY WYNNE.