Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-01
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Letter From Miss Miriam Kane Proves of Interest
to Readers-Savoy Plans for Rendition
of the "Gondoliers'

WHEN some OF our young people are
w working in the hospitals abroad. 1t
Il is a wonderful thing to read their let
ters and to breathe in, as It were, the
atmosphere about them
Miriam Kane is at present a nursing
aide at an English military hospital at
Eevers, some distance from Paris. and
she tells of the splendid work that is
being done for the comfort and help of
the wounded. In letter dated April 4
she says:
THE work as yet does not seem hard,
though the living conditions are not
tempting for the moment, the cold being
really unprecedented for this time of the
year We. the nurses, live in a small
chalet entirely unheated and with no
bathroom You know what that means
to an American. We have had furries of
snow occasionally. The nurses, all Eng
lish, are very agreeable as well as eff
cient though one does miss the ready
sympathy of the Latin temperament. 1t
Is wonderful, the way in which the Eng
lish women of high birth and education
are working in the hospitals here side by
side in most democratic fashion with
those less distinguished all for the COM
mon cause. The Princess Louise of Bat
tenburg, with a companion, is at this hos
pital, and she is altogether simple, un-
affected and clever too, in a quiet way
''Nevers Is such a funny old province
town. We are in the country, about
three quarters of a mile distant and we
do seem so out of the way. News travels
slowly, and I find I miss Paris dread
fully"
Miss Kane spent several months in
Paris, doing refuge work under Nine
Duryea) She continues:
II am assisting in the convalescent
ward-a' good place to begin. The pa
tients are mostly French 'poilus,' and
they do love this hospital. 1t is the vrai
vie de chateau, as one of them said,
after a French hospital. It is a pleasure
TO do anything for them. they are such
grateful and amusing children" Miss
kane's letter to her mother, Mrs Ed
ward V. Kane, Of Germantown, who has
been good enough to permit me to print
some Of 1t, ends with this interesting bit
Of news. She says: -Four Of your letters,
with dates covering as many weeks,
reached me at the same time I send you
two envelopes with apologies, as you see,
from the authorities for the accident at
sea'-transferred, doubtless. from a tor
pedoed vessel. which accounts for their
delay in reaching me-" The idea of Miss
Kane's return to her native land is out
Z Of the question at present, and so, like
good little soldier, she Is giving un-
sparingly of her strength and sympathy
TO the unfortunate.
THE Savoy Opera Company has de-
L cded to give The Gondoliers," as was
At first planned, on May II, IS and 10,
and a most efficient cast has been chosen.
Elsie Brinton will be the Duchess of
PlaZaToro. and Elsie has got some voice
worth listening to. let me tell you. In
fact, il all the others were mediocre and
you. just heard her. 'twould be worth
your moneys worth; but the others are
by no means mediocre. let me tell you,
and 1t promises to be one dandy per-
formance. Frank Ward is to be the Duke,
and you know Frank? 'Nuff said. And
Marian Toumin will be Inez, while the
contadne will be impersonated by Doro-
thy Dinsmore. Mary Besson, Susan Fun
ston, Marie Starr and Florence Shoe
abeth Harrison, who will take the part of
Casida- The men in the cast include
Oswald Blake, Clarence Brinton. William
Keech. Leslie Joy, John Bradway Dom
aid jerks and Harry Boden. Camille
Zeckwer is musical director and Joseph
Craig Fox stage director.
In the chorus this season will be Mar
guerite Adams, Margaret Baker Caroline
Brinton, Beatrice Carr, Isabel Chase,
Emile Claxton Edith Dallas Elizabeth
Dallas, Mary Eastwick. Margaretta Foltz,
Anna Gardiner, Mary Henderson, Doro-
thea Kent Gladys Lawton, Sidney Lear,
Frances Leiper. Mary Leiper. Mildred
Love, Eunice Schoff. Katharine Sexton,
Martha Shoemaker. Carrie Schriver, Eliz-
abeth Thompson, Marion Troth, Louise
Twaddell, Marie Zara, Agnew Adams,
Walter Antrim John Archer, George
Borda, Harry Claghorn, Howard Dunn,
Jr., John Freeman. James Gordon,
Frederick Hastings, Irwin Hall, VIII
liam Keefer. I'd, Thomas Lewars. Paul
n McKeone, Matthew Maury. Edward Muir
ply, John Paul, Philip Quick, Hilary
Rex Randall Roberts Wallace Roberts,
Albert Schoff, Alden Sexton, Richard
sprague, Henry Tetlow, I'd, and Jamard
Zeckwer.
There will be Spanish ballet, in
which eight dancers will take part. They
will be Elizabeth Dallas, Anna Gardiner.
Marie Starr Marian Toulmin, Agnew
Adams, Walter Antrim, Howard Dunn,
Jr and Hilary Rex.
NANCY wYNNE.