Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-11-22

y Aart something diHerent, doesn I III
,,,.o, do YOU think they are going to do
,,,s simply a splendid idea. Well, they
TO taken the ballroom OF the Bellevue
-. wednesday, December IL, and under
IT. auspices the marines and naval re-
..ryes will present their own production
cover Here" most Of the words and music
.,r which they have written themselves
rhevare staging the production, too. mind
,,ous and it's really going to be very good
And another unique part of the enter
..,nuent Is the fact that there are to be
"a tickets. It's to be an invitation affair
Mrs. F. Hazard Lippincott. who is chair
ma. of the committee, is in charge and
r,, be ably assisted by the women on the
committee. Any of us who remember the
,,ocess of the Fashionable Follies, which
xere gotten up by Mrs. Lippincott several
Years ago, will be sure that anything to
vhich she puts her mind and hands will
70 through all right.
n,HE men who are getting up the show
Z i saw they have been entertained so
,ovaIly by many people at their homes
.rd at their clubs and. at parties of all
make some little return for all the kind
ness they have been shown. I think it
vill be great for there certainly is much
talent among them. They have asked
Elizabeth Latta to sing with them, but
The little lady naturally felt she would
Re too conspicuous as the only one on the
staee with some forty-five men and so
has gotten up chorus of girls to be with
her. She will sing several solos and a
duo, with whom l have not yet heard.
Mrs. william H. Greene will ask a num-
her of the younger girls to act as aides
during the evening. And the Marine
Band will play and $50 marines and $50
reser. es drill Then there will be several
speakers; so believe me. twill be some
party hope I'll be invited
TTAVE you ever been to tine Little Gal
IL lery? Now, don't tell me you don't
know where it is. Good night Why it's
In the Grebe Building up on the fifth
floor and the whole floor is filled with ar
lists. And the little gallery is used to
display the work of the various artist
and artistes on that floor. believe there
is one Lone Man on the floor. Heaven
help him, but still he's some artist, so it's
oil right. Be that as it may, little Nancy
went up there yesterday to see Elizabeth
Washington's work of a year or more,
which is being displayed this week. She
does some splendid work. She won the
scholarship at the Academy of the Fine
Arts last year and the Mary Smith prize,
too. She is a descendant of George Wash
ington you know; that is a direct de.
scendant of his brother, and has certainly
decided talent Her paintings are going
to be on exhibit the rest of this week. so
II you take ~ advice you'll trot up to the
Little Gallery, if only to see some of the
delightful miniatures. -....
Beatrice Fox Is on that same floor of
artistes, She is at present working on
bust of Doctor La Place. There are sew.
sral others, too, ON the fifth floor Janet
Wheeler Rose Young, Mrs. Read, Miss
Archanbault, Miss Winner. and they all
wear smocks. even the Lone Man. BY the
way, the Lone Mans portrait of Pershing
at present on exhibition in Stetsun's
window and it's wonder, all right.
DID you happen, by any chance 70
cross Chelten avenue bridge, or try
70 make a train at that station, Monday,
any time during the day? Did I hear
groans? Well. talk about campaigns in
flanders, British drives and all that sort
OF thing-they have nothing on the drives
that were directed against the wallets OF
innocent, overworked business
men ON their way to strenuous days
work. And IL the 'early birds" thought
lhey would escape, they were sadly mis-.
skeh' Tor there they were, all dolled up
~ their fur coats, with bright red cheeks
mot 10 mention noses), stationed on either
'ide OF the steps leading down to the
raiiis, with cigar box in hand and large
l. M. c, A. band on one sleeve that
'usht TO have been a danger signal TO
my one Tor some distance off. Some
,'eh apparently did believe in being on
he safe side-of the street at an. rate
or II was very obvious on one or two oc.
''siohs that they crossed over within half
olock OF the firing line, and one was
'eeh 10 duck behind a milk wagon, Why
wen tne JOY of buying a morning paper
was denied him, so closely was the news.
.aha guarded by those omnipresent
'scalpers."
'eaiiy' though, II was wonderful how
nuch they brought in, and especially the
,ay every one responded to the needs of
Nv l. NJ C. A., wasn't it? There were
"emoers OF the gentler sex stationed at
inherent posts all over Germantown, who
'efe 'eing relieved. most of them every
Wv hours or so, in relays, while the
ouhg girls they had helping them
to take to begging" quite natur.
Wy ~, 10 Judge from the looks of their we'll.
'"eu cigar boxes and milk bottles. Or.
! y"aps' you will say that it worked
~" "ays-that the donors were en-
"siy generous. Some were, I'm sure,
.he remarks which floated back TO the
'e'pient of their recent fortunes could be
n seriously, such as. There went nv |
!. s"on u did you hear it rattle in that box?"
. eoTs on, Bob. let's go over and buy
' newspaper" NANCY WYNNE.
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