Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-02
JDS1 GOSSIP 4BO07 PE0fZE
'u'y " ynne Receives b Letter From Maine Which Has Many
Interesting fncidents-Red Cross Asks for
Peach Stones

~ L TtNtlNeu fpCenIly
telling OF the doings up In Kennebunkport
Nhd osonquit, Me-, the season is still in
NE ascendant. There was a fine time last
eek In Kennebunkport. Mrs. Otis Skin.
nv and Cornelia are up there, You know.
."N on Monday night and Tuesday after
wv three one-act plays were produced
1"uS Mrs. SINNERS direction, the pro
Seeoa being given for the little towns war
leher units. And the committee in charge
sNpecn to turn in more than one thousand
ooiars'from these two performances.
hra. Booth Harrington was chairman of
inc entertainment, and she took an active
part N the performances, appearing as
L'oertS In a tableau entitled young
Amerca Answers the CALL" one of several
That followed the plays.
Corntia Skinner, who is Mr.. and Mrs,
skinners only child, wrote one of the
piays given and took the leading part. It
Tragedy OF the present war called
injury ~fieces," with a well defined plot
ana a very thrilling climax. "Corne'ia
was quite wonderful both in the writing
ana acting Of the play my informant
virtues me There was very little of the
-nnateur, and there was no doubt whatever
"at the play got over with the audience.
The second play, I'm Crane Sous Une
Iempe'e,' was given in French and was
worry nne' and the third, a French comedy
translated by Mrs. Skinner. was very
clever. Ailsa MacColl, the daughter of
DOCTOR MacColl, Of the Twenty.hrst and
walnut streets Presbyterian Church, took
a minor part in che third play very we'll
and made a decided hit in her fetching
maids costume"
Mr.. Skinner went up specially for the
performances. as he had to return for his
own dress rehearsal on Wednesday night.
"kennebunkport never looked so beau
uful as it does this summer, nor so wide
awake. The little port is having in a
measure a rebirth of its old-time ship
building activities, for Gys my infor-
mant, Il noticed several good-slzed craft
In the building as We walked Down the
river road toward TIE casino. Nor" she
continues, can Ogonsu'. complain of a
lack of interesting people, nor, as is
always the case when Interesting people
get togther, happenings that are worth
while. The beautiful village Studio, which
10 also a very perfect little theatre. has
held many a crowded and brilliant audi
ence. Dana Burnet, the poet and story
writer, talked there recently on his ex-
periences In France last winter. He GER
tainly has a most individual way Of telling
things and a viewpoint of conditions and
people that cannot be said to he usual.
John Kendrick Bangs spoke yesterday
at Mr.. Edward Hoyt's place, Fieldstone.
Mr.. Bangs summer home is NJ Ogonquit;
| perched high on the rocks, with a wide
: view Of the sea, his redroofed house is
visible for miles. This summer Mr.. Bangs
has leased his house and is occurring in
the interest of the Young Mems Christian
Association and its work abroad,'
For the first time, she says, IN many
years the artist colony is small, silent and
lacking both inspiration and an audience.
Drawn and the brain behind is all tnat Is
needed these days, and, also, art is cassed
with the nonessentials; but it seems to
bring no hardships to the majority Of
painters. They have turned over their
ability to the Government, anxious to
prove their loyalty" And certainly artists
arc HetuSu u SdHNodllo6c WIN esN pSi
ring posters are they not? Look at the
work Howard Chandler Christy, James
Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson
q dozens of others have done.
ibid you know that poster by James
Montgomery Flagg, TELL That to the Ma
rines," was enlarged to lfe-size by the
artist this summer and that he worked
outside Of the Metropolitan Museum be-
fore an admiring audience for days till it
was finished?
My friends letter seemed so interesting
] thought 1 would pass it on to you with
a few "Nancyisms' interspersed, such as
the information about James Montgomery
Flagg.
Z IF EVER there was a demand that was
i easy to fill 1t Is the present want OF the
American Red Cross. PEACH STONES!
That's true. Not peaches, but peach
stones. Don't YOU wonder what the big idea
ZAP I did. So I asked and, as is usual
: when you ask, you hnd out. There Is
something inside the stone, a certain juice
connected with the small kernel and l be-
iieye a part Of the kernel itself, that the
Government wants to use on its gas masks.
Now, If any one thinks the Government
IL not ingenious, I'd like to meet that per-
son. I tell you, when the war Is over, We
will no longer be a wasteful nation. We
viii have found a use for everything that
used to be thrown out without a thought
before these days of conserving.
The Independence Square Auxiliary of
he Red Cross is planning to put a barrel
ear its portals for the reception of peach
Fed or peach stones. and really, you know.
you go in for it in earnest and have
very one in the house save these stones
null have q Lot 10 give in no time. for II