Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-26

nCITE n number nf prominent women
W havc given their names is patroncsScs
for the vaudeville and travcsty, The
Rc.raming OF the Shrow." which IL TO be
given hy members Of Base Hospital Unit
No. 20. OF the University Of Pennsylvania.
on Thursday night at Mercantile Hall It's
really going to be "a very clever per.
forinance. given under the direction OF
Captain Alexander Randall, who Is chair.
man Of the recreation committee Of the
unit. Private John Lott. who has played in
the movies with Billie Burke in "Glorins
Romance" aud with Amelia bingham also
is staging the affair, which will have eight
acts. There are ten men in the cast.
Howard y. Mills. who has danced with
Hutl ST. Denis and Theodore Shawn. ana
sho was with the Russian Ballet two win.
.,rs ago, will give special Hawaiian
;auces assisted by four other men. The
;ausc for the evening is to be furnished
~ the Base Hospital No. 20 Hawaiian
yrchestra and there is to be n gymnastic
,xhbition by three former intercollegiate
,hampions Of the University of Pcnnsylva-
mia. Major Eldridgc Ellason Sergeant
Nenrs' IIagcrt and Private t'ranck Stur.
.idgc.
The performance will he followed by
general dancing, and the proceeds are TO
.e used to provide recreation and Smokes
2or the men of the base hospital unit.
Among the women who are interested in
tie party are Mrs. Sabin Cotton, Jr., MIS-.
tohn Coles Mrs. Harrison Morris, MIS-.
George Earnshaw. AIrs. Charles Rhoades'
Mrs. Ashton Little Mrs William W. AZ
nett Mrs. Thomas c. Ashton, Mrs. N.
Grouse Carpenter, Mrs. Tom Cover Jr..
Mrs. Caleb Fox, Mrs. William Godfrey,
Mrs. Henry S. Grove Mrs Ned Illslcy, Mrs.
Barton IIirst, Mrs Bertram Lppincott,
Mrs John L. Lewis. Mrs. Stoteshury, Mrs.
Roland Taylor, Mrs. Carroll Tyson, Jr.,
Mrs. James Winsor, Jr., Mrs. Crczier
Griffith Mrs. William Paul O'Neill Mrs.
Edward Bowman Leaf and many others.
TTNIIIS Afternoon and evening there Will
l. be great doings at the Art Alliance
buildings: for the week which is to benefit
the Allied artists has started, and tonight
Charles Dana Gibson and Joseph PehncN
are TO speak to a distinguished audience
at tho Academy Of Fine Arts.
number of eminent artists will come on
from New York for the evening and will
be dlned a, the Sketch Club. in Camac
street. Among them will be Howard
Chandler Christy, Frank CASEY, Of Golfers
Magazine; Adolph Triedler, Jack Sheridan,
II. Dewitt Welsh, Frank Goodwin. George
Harding +. Walter Taylor and several
others who have done such wonderful war
posters. The originals of the posters will
he on exhibition in the Art Alliance gal
lery, and the poster which tells all about
this week OF lectures. music and art, done
in black and white by Bill KrieGhof, of our
own town, will also be on exhibition.
CHE came up here from baltimore to
- stay for week with one of her school
friends OF last year And the S. T. had
two youn; brothers one seventeen ana one
nineteen years old who decided 'hat Baltl'
more looked pretty good to them. In fact
there was great rivalry between them, but
Mary aged sixteen, was utterly obliviOus to
all this adulation, which made It all the
more exciting for the boys, Because be-
sides Elizabeth's brothers there were other
IllcDuS Dfalf-eTS WHO were III tue luIllHEs
The family looked on deeply amused.
Finally the morning of her last day with
them came, and when Mary came down to
breakfast she noticed several amused
slances from Mr.. and Mrs. ----- and Eliza.
beth. Finally Mrs. said, did you sleep
well, Mary. dear"' "Oh yes, never better
I'm my life. 7 could not believe it was
morning when 7 awokc, 7 had slept so
sound" replied Mary. brightly. elizabeth
gave suppressed gisGle. Aol Mary said,
Why, did anything particular happen in
the nisht?' only this" said Mrs. -----.
MY two boys and about every other boy
IN tho neighborhood decided to serenade
YOU on your last night here. and all seem
TO have chosen the witchlng hour of IL, for
thoy arrived eight strong at midnight, each
more surprised than the other to think
that he had had the Same idea They
settled 1t by singing together however"
Poor Mary doubt If she'll ever hear thu
end Of that serenadc. NANCY WYNNE.