Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-07
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
'rrl Scouts to Hold Rummage Sale in Hale Build
. inc During Last Week of This Month--Uni-
versity Students in Play

,,,, charitable affairs Of all descrip-
|W .,on, sthl filling the social calendars
80 cause Is now added to the list
- score or more of young society
with Gwen Martin In the lead
v0 s,.,n,ne a Rummage Sale to take
me last week in April.
% ~. ,ale which is to be held in the Hale
..,,mns, at Chestnut and Juniper streets
rsIse funds for summer camp tor
,,-, scouts, Of which there are now
NV .s.n nfteen hundred members. A
s.s,. location is to be found, sum-
esh.. ..ar the city to insure moderate
''",.re where relays OF the troops can
.mO at set intervals during the summer
"mr the new troops recently organ
Chestnut Hill division. OF which
Disston is captain and Molly
plo usutenant. Gwen Martin is also
.,.,n Of a troop which meets at the
~.,,.se settlement and has Ellen Mary
r.satt as lieutenant
.,rros others who are active In arrang-
s.,sus for the sale are Mrs. Rad
chsston. Jr., Miss Louise kollock
v.rcv Reath, Harriet Deaver' Miss kath-
..n. hutchinson, Mrs. j. Norman jack
~" NJ, Chancellor c. English, Miss
~" manson, Miss Gertrude Ely, Miss
S..s n,ddle. Mrs Alexander B. Coke,
~. .,,nee stone. Mrs. Robert w. Lesley,
-. polan, Eugenia Cassatt' Miss Hen
IN. r,v Mrs David s. Stern. Miss Anna
: Davies, Mrs. Alexander Coke var
w., Johann Grolle and Miss Helen
Flsisher
..r,,nENTs of the University of Penn
y S.,,vania will give a dandy entertain
a. the Academy of the Fine Arts
!. Monday night April 16. The enter
.,rment is the result of months OF en-
...rrsnts in dramatics. and 1t Will take
~. form Of three one-act plays, to DE
,,ven in "The Playshop."
"Ths Playshop" is diminutiVe. inca
=. created by students for the produc
~, ~ nlavs written. by themselves, and
~. hssn 90 designed that it is portable
.nd can be carried around in two trunks
!, 4, IN Itself a dramatic laboratory, In
which students have attempted to present
..v ideas in novel form. and rehearsals
z, ,h. n,ays give evidence Of the success
M their plan.
Many society women will act as patron
49,. at the first presentation of the plays
N the diminutive theatre, among them
A.rr Mrs. Eli Kirk Price, Mrs. John
frederick Lewis, Mrs. Edgar Fahs Smith
Nrs. ]. Howard Reber, Mrs. Charles II
Frazier and Miss Mary A. Burnham
fheIr interest in the production is height
snsd by the fact that the theatre can be
~ I'm in a ballroom for an evenings
sntartainment, and several have already
psde inquiries with this end in view.
New ideas in stagecraft will be used
n the manager, who is John F. Lewis
N. son Of the president of the academy
Many Of the ideas were conceived by
Beorse F. Kearney, director of the
Ifasoue of American Drama, who orig
hated, the idea and who also wrote one
X the sketches.
NTH war staring us In the face, nat
" urally there will be many an engaged
rrl who will not willingly see her be
hved 30 marching off to the front, OF
even prepare to go marching off the sam'
tachelor of old; she'll prefer that he be
Hsredick, and already I hear rumors o
fastening of some weddings
The last rumor said that member o
The City Troop, whose engagement wa
announced shortly after the return from
El Paso. will be married in May ant
arlier II necessary. l believe they don
want II known as yet, so / can't pas
Non, hut he lives on the Main Line, ant
NE came out last year and is awful.
pretty. Can you guess?
ls NANCY WYNNE.