Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-26
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPI n
Girl Scouts to Give Demonstration Drill in Fair
mount Park in June-A Musicale for Set.
tlement Schools Benefit

quarters Ut of SOutn DeNenteeHt1 street,
are planning large outdoor rally to take
place the second week in June in Fair
mount Park.
The local council, which is comprised
of many of the most prominent girls in
Philadelphia society, is taking this means
of showing to the public at large just
what has been accomplished by the
forty-one troop companies, and more than
1900 Girl Scouts will give demonstrations
in drilling, signaling, etc.
At the present time the combined efforts
of the executive committee are centered In
arranging for a rummage sale, which is
to be held in the Hale Building for three
consecutive days, beginning next Monday.
most extensive millinery department
will be in charge of number of young
women. who will act in relays, certain
numbe: offering their services for each
day. A special feature will also be de.
partment for discarded talking machine
records. which are being solicited now by
Gwen Martin and Harriet Deaver, who
have charge of collecting the rummage
to be donated. Separate booths will also
be devoted to clothing of all kinds, as
we'll as bric-a-brac, books toys, furniture
china and glass.
Among those who will have charge of
the various tables are Ellen Mary Cas-.
satt, Mrs. Radcliffe Cheston, Jr., Miss
Louise B. Kollock, Nancy Reath, Harriet
Deaver, Miss Katharine p. Hutchinson,
Mrs. J. Norman jackson. Mrs Chan.
cellor c. English, Miss Anne Thomson,
Miss Gertrude Ely. Miss Edith Biddle.
Mrs. Alexander B. Coke. Miss Aimee
Stone, Mrs. Robert w. Lesley, Rose
Dolan, Eugenia Cassatt, Miss Henrietta
Ely, Mrs. David S. Stern, Miss Anna F.
Davies, Mrs. Johan Grolle, Dorothy Diss.
ton, Helen Fleisher and Molly Thayer.
A MOVEMENT has been started on the
"A Main Line from Ardmore to Wayne
10 enroll the boys from fifteen years to
nineteen years of age. The first meeting
was held In the parish house of the
Church Of the Good Shephard Rosemont,
last Wednesday night, and sixty.seven
boys responded to the call. Mr.. George
Gibbs, Of Rosemont, is president, Mr. G.
Brinton Lucas, vice president; Mr.. Rob.
ert c. Daniel, secretary, and Mr.. s. Flu.
guet, treasurer. A letter was read from
the Government heartily indorsing the
plan, and two navy officers came from
League Island to drill the boys. All of
the men interested are graduates of the
Pattsburg camp
TUE only thing there seems to be more
Aof than benefit performances" is
auxilaries The latest to claim atten.
tion-and 1t is for benefit performance,
tools the auxiliary committee for Mrs
Boks Settlement Music School," This
committee Of girls and recently married
young women, under the honorary vice
presidentship of Mrs. Box, Mrs. Samuel
D. Fels and Mrs. A. J. Dallas Dixon an.
nounces musicale for next Monday
afternoon at Mrs. Henry La Barre Jayne's
house 1895 Spruce street, for the benefit
OF the scholarship fund of the music
school These girls maintain one of the
pupils down at the music school with this
scholarship fund. which, of course has to
be paid annually.
The Jayne music room, with its lovely
organ, makes an ideal setting for a small
concert, and the program is Of peculiar
interest, in that every number will be
performed by member of the auxiliary.
Two Of the compositions to be presented
are by members of the auxiliary, Eliza.
beth Gest and Frances McCollin both
OF whom, I am told, are composer.mem-
pers OF the Philadelphia Manuscript Music
Society.
The membership of the auxiliary, which
numbers forty, includes such well.known
Philadelphia girls as Margaret Yardley
prttn
Iotte Jones, the three Jolines, Kate Jayne
Davis and Frances Stoughton Ballard
And after the music there will be
& "eats." as cakes and candies are to be on
Bale
THE thirty-third club night Of the
r Plays and Players was marked by the
presentation of two unusually good per-
tormances, Gentlemen Unafraid," adapted
IA from A. f. Mason's story. Ensign
Anightley," by Vinton F'reedley, and "The
.8 bracelet" by Alfred Sutro and a third,
y. Hartley Manners's Happiness" which
was given as a curtain-raiser. The Little
Theatre was again available for the clubs
performance, and as it was packed to the
doors, Mr.. Frederick Shelton took oc-
tne building committee. of which he is
member, toward the erection Of the
new clubhouse.
foung Freedley's adaptation was re-
"arkably we'll done, and, too, it had the
soVantage Of an excellent cast, with
tne playwright himself in the role Of
Anightley, the man who came back;
"eggie Oates playing opposite him and
supporting cast including Joe Deering,
Aenry Schaffer, Fred Cowperthwaite,
Alan Osborne and Raymond Carrick. Mr..
7eoer directed the production.
sutro's one-act playlet was really splen-
uio' But, then, with a cast composed of
.om Mexican and Mrs. Samuel Cooper,
Doth Of whom left nothing to be desired;
Win Writ Tutwiler close third. and Mrs.
sam Woodward, Dorothy Welsh, Mrs.
lInH Cy-l Ntvatnn