Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-11
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
.sMothers of France" to Be Shown at Metropolitan
Opera House for American Ambulance Work
Nancy Wynne Discusses Various Things

ND In the mius' w nv ,
A,..rts and festivities OF Easter week.
@eS.v are fewer these days, yesterday
y. the awful explosion at Eddystone'
ca"' - many innocent lives were lost
wns'. r,ony of our Woodworking people
~ s,,,.a and wounded for life.
ma''s . a fearful thing that these peo-
: wbo started out to work on yes'er'
p. bright and beautiful morning be.
80 .ha noon hour were lying dead ana
foro .a IN the midst of devastating
w0u' a,d horrible explosions. The
uA'"s- r,ent will look into the matter:
!. faint possibility, they say, that
WV ,.v have been an accident but 'here
~, many Of us who will think so,
"a. thing is certain, II the dastardiy
the work of the enemy, the best
..,,raeement ~ for enlistment that the
snoo s"o..., has had so far will have been
effected. ,.o. 80 .n. enemv
"a var. did you know that the Ameri'
- =. Ambulance and Hospital Service Com
-. ~ the Emergency Aid has de-
% give the moving picture,
-.....r. of France" with Sarah Bern
~. N the Metropolitan Opera House,
!, North Broad street, on Thursday'
w.,,.v and Saturday nights Of this week
!. ro,.e money for sixty more ambu-
,,., which. together with the expense
:, .cuipment and upkeeping, cost
A.. mn for six months work?
nf
..,.d in the movies, and boxes have been
..s.r by Mrs. Aleck Van Rensselaer,,
~. Ernest Law. Mrs. J. Gardner Cas-.
-, Mrs Richard Y. Cook, Mrs. Maurice
,,.,..cber. Mrs. Thomas G. Ashton, Mrs.
n.,,.mn Miller. Miss Anna Lewis, Mrs.
James Howe. Mrs. John Wanamaker'
Mrs Morris Clothier. Mrs. Eli Kirk
p,,cs Mrs. Samuel +. Houston, Mrs.
c,.n,ev G.. Flagg, Jr., the Misses Cook
IA Miss Mary Brown Warburton Mrs.
George Wharton Pepper is chairman OF
~. committee which is getting up this
benefit.
TT Is funny how many exaggcrations go
about these days. Monday it was a
t,le that the Fieldngs were giving a
dance which they not only never gave
mt never intended giving. and today the
rumor went abroad that the Charlie Hai'
r,sons were giving a huge children
marty this afternoon. Now as matter
AZ fact. I happen to know that the party
which has been so spoken of is a very
! ANAL affair given by Mrs. Harrison fol-
mar little girls, at which there will moi
be as many as thirty little guests. People
are not giving big entertainments these
days. as l remarked before. They do moi
think II is fitting with war on our hands
and the sooner the people realize that il
h war with a terrible w the better.
At the same time it would not be wei
70 cut all pleasure and recreation from
nfe, for the sufferings and sorrows o
war are grim enough and men canno
stand overmuch sorrow. There mus
now and again be some little diversion
or melancholia might ensue, so we mus
not be harsh in our judgments If we hea
that this one or that one is entertaining
on a small scale for this one or tha
one, but know that it is wiser so.
nERHAPS those who crowded tn
p opera house last night expected
thrill like unto that of last week whe
Farrar brought down the house with tn
national hymn. But if this was missing
there was the new. opera-and Carust
Always Caruso! The boxes were filled
Mrs. Stotesbury is back again in her &C
eustomed place and last night locke
charming in pale-blue tulle over satil
Hope and Tony Cromwell were with he
Hope arrayed in simple black froc
with cuirass of sequins, particularly be
coming to her blonde type.
Membes of the Biddle clan arrayed !
dl their glory were present in Mr.
Drexels box, while in Mrs. Alexande
Brinton Coxe's box were the Bob l.
Contes. Among others present were I'll
Eares the Roddy Pages, the Howells, til
Cassatts, the Edgar SCOTS, the Brock
me Houstons and the Berwinds.
Rumor also had it that Ina Claire wit
her fance, Lawrence Townsend, were
s"e ouuieHCe, Dut tney chose u Hiuo
me balcony and were not in evidence.
NEWS Of the marriage of Juliet I
Coursey Schuyler last Tuesday W,
interest number of Philadelphia
Vwins to her mothers serious illne
uere could not be large wedding,
me and Edward Arthur Kerr, of Yo
ken' N. Y. We're married very quiet
her parents home at Dobbs Ferr
.nd are now, I am told. at Lakewo'
lW their honeymoon. Only the imme,
- families were present.
Juliet. You know. is the daughter
~ and Mrs. Charles z. Schuyler, al
nom her mother. who was Adele Sarto
'nls city, she inherits much beaut
ene completed her schooling in Bost
my last winter. Mrs. j. Hutchis,
o't was among the Philadelphians wi
nt over for the wedding.
NANCY WYNNE.