Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-17
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PFOPT =
Mrs Henry Brinton Coke, Mrs. George Horace
Lorimer and Host of Others Get Up Entertain
ment for Red Cross-Savoy Opens Tonight

.rrtEvE me, twill be some affair this
ID .,ening at the Bellevue -Stratford,
~ for the benefit of the Independ.
- souare workroom of the Southeast
chapter of the American Red Cross.
W ,,.orkroom was established before
~, larger of the Pennsylvania WOmen's
A'.,,,or for National Preparedness with
a.. American Red Cross was accom-.
'.Aod AT that time the workroom was
IDu,D as "The Local Chapters Prepar-
- worIiroom," and the Auxiliary
itself went by the name of "The
nsuadelphia General Chapter of the
Mp. Whatever the name under
'.h tie members have labored and are
,,sar,ng they have never interrupted
.s.,r efforts, and the work is proceeding
.s,b the same unceasing devotion to the
.,,oraI cause and the same patriotic en-
.s..,osm And that is most TO the poiht
,Nsr all, is It not?
cob work necessarily needs support.
,,,.ro must be money much money, to
- on such an undertaking and to
- the workers going. Results in the
80, under the slogan Of preparedness"
,ovo been quite phenomenal and they
20 often been spoken of in public The
.,oren of this state have taken an honest
.r,de IN never turning down reasonable
,.,uest for assistance. They have re.
.uardad TO every demand made upon
,bsm. and have managed to rise to every
emergency. Some one always has come
,oruard with the money required to put
things through
WHEN the soldiers wives needed help
w for support of their families they,
IN conjunction with the Emergency Aid
hove given IT, When the Wynnefield
uosnital was placed at the disposal of the
dtv by the trustees of the Children's
Eospital they at once furnished the
.ouinment. When notice was sent to
headouar.ers that trooD trains were due
N mass through the State and the Penn
Ulyania militia itself was modified, the
government system not having been in
hll working order, tie 1900 women of
,he State enrolled under the banner of
, rranaredness saw to il that our boys
we're met and cheered with words of en-.
couragement and with food and refresh
ment. When word came from the officers
IN charge Of the Pennsylvania contingent
an the border to the effect that trouble
with regard TO the mems health was eX
pected owing to the lack of proper atten'
tIon to their teeth within forty-eight
hours a dental unit was on it's way to the
border, and that unit remained until
eventually replaced by the Government.
Last year they forwarded comfort kits
and Christmas boxes to the regular army
IN Mexico Haiti and Santo Domingo.
And they had stores of dressings and
equipment for hospital beds for the men
on the border.
At the present time they are working
for the equipment OF Base Hospital No
10, which was among the assets of the
Pennsylvania Women's Division for Ma.
tional Preparedness which have been
turned over to the American Red Cross
by Mrs George w. Chlds Drexel, and
which was the first Base Hospital called
for by the Government.
In addition, they are preparing for
whatever may come, and the future Is so
percarous just now, it behooves every
woman or group of women to be ready
for the worst while hoping for the best.
Much hope is built by the women upon
the response of the public to this appeal
for support.
THE entertainment tonight will include
II n,I, d.
He Lied to Her Husband" by members
Of the Plays and Players, and later de.
hghtful Dutch play, The Loan of Lover"
which will have several specially dances
and choruses as we'll
During the intermission between the
plays Mrs, Sydney Hutchinson and MIR.
and Mrs, Burton Piersol will sing and
Miss Mary Wurts and Edward Cassard
vii give duo dance.
Elizabeth Latta will represent America;
hargot Scull, France; Ruth Powell, Italy,
tnd Miss Wurts, Scotland, in four spec.
oalty dances. Altogether it will be quite
worth while, don't you think?
ACROSS the street from the Bellevue
Al stratford, where all this excitement
lakes place, there will be the opening per-
iormance of the Savoy Opera Company
the Broad Street Theatre. They will
give The GOndoiers' for the benefit Of
ne Outing Fund and for the Episcopal
Base Hospital.
frank Ward Elsie Brinton, Clarence
Drihton' Dorothy Dinsmore, Elizabeth
harrison and a host of others will take
part In fact, it looks as if the Savoy
Nll be its usual great success.
NANCY WYNNE.