Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-09
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Children Appear in Cunning Musical Play This
Afternoon-Nancy Wynne Chats Abouta
Number of Things

rruEREs going to be the dearest enter
y ii ,anment this afternoon in the Orpheus
r,,b rooms at half after o'clock. It's to
!. a musical play given by number of
.,,a,es who live in and about Chestnut
,Iu and it's called "The Half Notes Re.
..,rqe" Little Polly Savage will be the
u.u Note and Louise Butterworth the
quarter Note Then there will be four
rarhtb Notes-Abigail Morris, Sally Henry,
r,,zabeth Newhall and Mary Moses; while
,hs four Sixteenth Notes will be Mary
rredsrica Pearson, Jane Newhall Julia
poss and Hope Randolph.
Grace Savage will impersonate three
.,oracters--Wholc Note. Half Note and
piacere: and there will be two Dots,
peggy Paul and Evan Randolph Eliza
h.th Newhall, besides being an Eighth
Note. will be a Thirty second Note and
Mary Moses will he Fine. Then the three
little girls who are simply to act as three
,ttle girls are Annette Newhall, who will
M Frances; Anne Prichard, Carlotta, and
Louise WE'LL, Sophie.
The playlet and additional music, which
latter will be furnished by Miss Marian
Fisher and Master John Richardson, have
been arranged by Miss Louise Hopkins
and Miss Florence Leonard, and the pro-
ceeds are to be given to Auxiliary No. of
the American Red Cross
There will be songs and original compo.
s!tlons and certainly the children will be
more than cunning. Among the patron
asses are Mrs. Beauveau Borie, Mrs. Henry
Brinton Coke, Mrs John s. Newbold, Mrs.
Theodore Cramp, Mrs. Cushman Newhall,
Mrs. David Newhall. Mrs. +. Lex Pearson.
Mrs. Frank Prichard, Mrs. Evan Randolph,
Mrs. c. G. Savage, Mrs. Howard Henry,
Mrs. Albert Lucas and various others.
7 HEAR great many interesting things
i about Lieutenant Nilsson, who Is going
10 speak on Monday afternoon at the In.
pendence Square Auxiliary of the Red
Cross It's remarkable what man can
70 through and still live to tell of IT, At
the outbreak of the war he was living in
Saskatoon, Manitoba, and enlisted in the
Strathcona Horse as private lie fought
at Ypres Festubert. Givenchy, Messines,
the somme, Arras, Nimy Ridge and Lens.
and won his commission as lieutenant on
the field.
He has been wounded and gassed Uhat
was at Festubert, | understand and, as IL
that we're not enough, he was also the
victim Of an aerial attack on London,
when bomb exploded so near him that
several of his teeth were knocked out and
he sustained severe decorations of the face.
should think that young man would have
somewhat to tell on Monday. What think
you?
ISN'T 1t the saddest thing about Mrs.
Harte? You know she Is really des.
perately i'll in BJslon, and though thew
have cabled to Doctor Harte, who is with
BASE Hospital No. 10 somewhere in
France up to the last heard they had
not been able to get any am ser. So it Is
not known whether he can get home or
not or even if he has received the cable
gram Mrs. Harte went up to Boston to
visit some Of her relatives and was taken
i'll there. 1t is hard to got exact news
ABOUT her, as her daughter is with her, of
course and there is no member of the
, immediate family here to ask Let us hope
her husband will he able to come for a
short Through. at any rate. He is head
Of the unit over there. you know
WHY do you suppose she told her hus.
" band to meet her on car IS at Broad
and Chestnut streets instead of at Broad
and Walnut streets when they wanted to
20 to Twenty-second and Pine streets?
Well any way, he got frishtfu,ly mixed
ABOUT the meeting and Walter and his
VIE had to go home with her, and then
walter hied himself forth to seek the lost
pne. However, he found him quite easily
Iter waiting for several cars. Husband
suddenly decided that it should have been
walnut street. and so. not finding her
'nere when he finally arrived, he went homo
ana :he troubles were soon over.
NANCY WYNNE.