Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-09

III .,e concert and dance which Mrs. Law
p Mellor Is getting up for the bene.
!. ~ the Navy Yard Y. NJ. c. a. hut. 1t
=, hs given on Friday evening, March
~ the ballroom of the Germantown
cr,cket Club at Mannheim and virtually
s...rvbody in Germantown and Chestnut
mi besides q great many Philadelphians,
~ no there The Cap and Bells Club of
,,.r,r,ord College will give a concert the
-, mart OF the evening, which Will be
s.uoued by dancing from $3.50 until
.,,ock. A great many dinners are being
,s.,od 20 be given at tho club before
-. dance. SO that 1t promises to be quite
10 marty and at the same time will aid
splendid cause
rhs committee assisting Mrs Mcllor in
.,,a.s Margaret La Rue, Marguerite Bur-
AN Hazel Coffin, Dorothy Dinsmore, Ruth
eisenhower. Josephine Fernley, Helen Pit.
e.d Esther Jones, Freda Gillespie,
rrances Hoppe, Martha Iiyslop, Elise
,ct Burrell Luck, Lucille Morris. Helen
u.,v Margaret II. Mellor, Katharine b.
smith. Emeyn Shipley, Margaretta Ship
law Ann Strawbridgc, Alice Tatnall, Mar
,.h Toogood, Elizabeth Van Dusen, Flea.
.,r Wunder, Alice T.. Dillenbeck, Gene.
We've Dillenbeck, William *. Beard, Sd,
Milton p. Barba, John c. Began, John
w Clayhorn, Frank Deacon, Branson Ed.
monds. Potter Darrow, Reginald Graft,
william Henry, George a. Haas. William
Jellett. John +. Keller, John d. McIll-
benny. Jr., Russell Robinson. Ross b.
oil .
nall Henry Wiener, Wooster c. Webster,
Harrison williams and John II. Laws Jr.
u The patronesses are Mrs. c. Ardley
Shedaker, Mrs. Warner Z. Earnshaw, Mrs.
kobert T.. Lea, Mrs. Maurice Burton, Mrs.
Frederic Strnwbrdge, Mrs. WILLIAM +.
Tatnall. Mrs. George Thacker, Mrs. John
Edmonds, Mrs. Il. E. Dennston, Mrs. II.
M. Coffin, Mrs. Alfred Mellor, Mrs. Carl
williams, Mrs. \. Lincoln Gillespie, Mrs.
Henry Wood, Mrs. Earnest r. Toogood.
Mrs. Walter c. Shipley, Mrs. Samuel A.
Tatnall, Mrs Ralph Mellor Mrs. Herbert
Grantham, Mrs. George l.. Garrett, Mrs.
William II. Eisenhower, Mrs. Walter Lee
Smith. Mrs. John c. Began and Mrs.
Harry lawson
TT SEEMS that there was Il last-minute
Or rather reNt.to.a- a-last-minute--
change in the plans of the Red Cross
Auxiliary No. 276 on Thursday, and Colo
mel st. George Steele, Of the British re-
cruting Office did not speak at the work.
rooms after all. The Colonel was scheduled
to speak at a luncheon that day and tho
committee In charge of the Independence
Square Red Cross thought it would be
more courteous to wait until next week
for him rather than have him rush
through his luncheon engagement and
p instead Of the address being an accom-.
Dished fact it is still pleasure to which
n may look forward next Thursday.
IND you happen to be at a certain movie
~ theatre in our city one afternoon
iuring the latter part of last week? Well,
didn't you enjoy it, too? That ridiculous
little episode, I mean. You see, the pic.
ture itself was a very thrilling one, the
kind that gets "breathesser and breath
lesser" In fact, as it drew to a climax
every single person in the audience was
positively afraid to move. And then came
the moment the heroine and everybody
else had been waiting for. The bandages
were to be removed from the hero's eyes
and-oh! would he see her or would he
never be able to see anything again? He
Just hatta see her, that was all there was
to 1t. But would he? There was a tense
silence, and doubt if any one even heard
the soft, low music the orchestra was
playing when suddenly--just as the last
bandage was being gently pulled away
and everybody was feeling rather weepy-
some one sneezed. It was very polite,
well'controlled sneeze, but, in the quiet
OF that theatre, it could be heard all over.
Well, it struck everybody funny at the
same time and regardless of the "feelin's"
Of the poor young man. whom you know
and know, who had sneezed and for the
moment utterly forgetting that the ill
lated hero was just being pronounced
blind. every one gigged hilariously.
As for the hero, it surely was lucky
thing that he couldn't hear his audience,
for he might have been offended for life,
mightn't he? NANCY WYNNE.