Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-17
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph A. Janney Will Give Dance
Tonight in the Bellevue-Stratford for Their
Daughters-Various Subjects Discussed

...,ctIr the debs will come into the
foreground once more and there VIII
delightful dance at the Bellevue
.,tord for the Janney twins, TO be
S.. their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
So, or Chestnut IIill. Meta and Alice
,,,st come back from Annapolis.
~. ,boy attended the hop on Saturday
~, Tbev brought with them their
Elizabeth steele who will receive
:, The dance tonight.
Roth the Janney girls are outol.doors
,.rsrs rather athletic end run their own
Thev arc members Of the Philadel'
~. cricket club at st. Martins and take
t,,erest i'm the various doinEs OF That
snsv little center OF activity.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob wurts will give
..nnsr for their debutante daughter
Marian. before the dance.
Ir IS especially interesting to hear that
urs Otis Skinner has consented to re.
,,e the prologue Of "Thc Contrast the
r,ov under her direction which is to be
.,yen at the Broad street Theatre on
Sh,,rsday afternoon under the auspices
!, tho Drama League and the University
!, po,nevIyania. All who heard Mrs
e,,r,or,s rendition of Ben Jonson's
aoao 10 Shakespeare" at the Shakespeare
,.,.bration in the Academy Of Music last
,nrInp will realize the treat which is in
tore for the lucky persons who have tick
e,s for Thursday afternoon.
"The Contrast" you know, was the sec
and play written by an American, Royal
TYLER by name, and the scene Is laid IN
Now York. and. as was usual in many OF
The early plays. each OF the three acts has
fo,ir scenes These are TO be reproduced
,s nearly MS possible and under similar
eopditlons to those Of the first perform
spce It is interesting to learn that THE
Contrast" was first performed at the John
Street Theatre, New York, on April 49,
1877. by the American company under the
management Of Lewis Hallam and John
Henry. 1t was repeated nve times in New
York and later was gwen in this city
Baltimore and Boston.
Royall Tyler was born in Boston on
July is, 1851. He graduated from Har'
yard College. and after studying law be.
during the Revolution and took part in
the attack on Newport Tyler was ad'
mitted to the bar in 1879 and entered mil
itary service again during Shay's Rebel
lion, serving as aide to General Benjamin
Lincoln with the rank OF major. When
he returned to Boston to practice law he
became Interested in the Federal street
Theatre and on visiting New York in 1889
he wrote The Contrast" under the in.
splration of Thomas Wignell, who acted
the part of Jonathan. He later wrote
three other plays the first farce, May
day in Town: or. New York in an Cproar.'
in 1887; "A Georgia Spec; or Land in the
Moon" in 1881 and The DueIists,' in
1897. These plays were performed in
New York and Boston. He eventually
devoted himself definitely to law and be
came Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court
Of Vermont in 1907 He died in August,
1926. The Contrast was published in
Philadelphia in 1890 by Thomas WigneIl.
5 private performance for the Drama
League members only was given yester'
day afternoon at the Broad street The
atre and was most enthusiastically re-
eelyed.
TIME following is the cast selected from
the Plays and Players for the revival
of THE Contrast: Colonel Manly, Mr..
Charles Leon Downing; Dmpe, Mr.. Vim
ton Freedley; Van Rough, MI Henry b.
Echaffer. Jr; Jessamy, Mr.. Joseph An
thony Deerng, Jr,; Jonathan, Mr.. J. How
ard Reber; Charlotte, Miss Dorothy X.
shelmerdinc; Marie Miss Alice Taylor
Wharton; Letitia Mrs. ]. Howard Reber;
jenny, Miss Hannah Monaghan; butler.
Mr. George DreXel Steel; a maid Miss
Margaret II. Cooper, Director, Mrs, Flu
genie Woodward ana stage manager, Mr..
Henry r. Schaffer, Jr.