Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-20
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
nancy Wynne Attends the Opera-Many There in
Spite of Exodus South-Plays and Players
Name Successful Playwrghts

E,r, SCREAM for new operas and when
n 30 Get them, with Caruso and Amato
.un I'm as well (cven though We listen
4, ,ov 10 their voices), we long for the
F'T.,,os we know so well and ca 20 over
,,r oNu minds as the great singers
\, them forth. However, "l.odoletta'
much applauded last night and Flor
~. rastou was In fine voice, as well as
,uo great men. Since t;aston proved
A, undoubtcd art in her debut in Cav
r,.rla Rusticana" this season, Philadel-
~ ereets her with open arms.
I'm number of people went between acts
E-, rieht. to Miss Nina Lcas box to see
|E1zabeth Porter. in whose honor Miss
4 q entertained. Elizabeth is staying with
E. willis Martins. She came up from
|~,sbington several days ago. Her en-!
|,,sement to Fred Fearing was recently
E,ropnced YOU remember.
MARY Ncwbold and Mary Brooke, chap,
|..,red by Miss Robertson, were in the
rs.ment Ncwbold box with several men
srong them Dr. Arthur Billings. was
] 81. able to recognize the others. distances
~. an great at the. Metropolitan. kath-
5..4ne / ,ea had her uncle Mr.. Arthur Lca's
IN and the Hamilton Colkets had box
|tnll of guests. one misses Mrs. Charlie
| Srirht at the opera She is back in
.6ifornia. YOU know.
! The Drcvels had Judge Martin and Mrs.
Martin. who has recovered from her re-
|<.nt attack of grip; Captain Tony Bddle
"a Mrs Biddle and Livingston Bidde and
|Eusenia.
kfarD YOU know that Mrs. Stewart Wurts
w has organized a class Of girls from
| .among thuse who attend her dancing class
I'm sew and Knit for the soldiers" 1t is
k.nIte remarkable to realize that i'm the few
|smys Mrs Wurts has had this class there
have been boys to the number of eighty.
.teht who have matured to men and are
M the service in the army aud navy today.
.fhe class is for the years before the boys
|snd girls are old enough TO come out or,
fact, to go into the Committee Glass.
shch preCCdcs the out dances. The girls
must be fourteen to enter the class and
HE boys sixteen, I think. And having seen
# he girls in their short froCks and the
boys in their tuXedos, it is hard to realize
THAT those boys have any Of them become
| Old enough to he in the service of tho
| United States; but they nave and are. I
Think the idea of class for knitting for
| The girls is splendid, don't YOU?
ENHE Plays and Players have actually
had to give up one of their time honored
customs, that Of producing the three plays
which the committee has picked from the
bnnual contest by $ncmbcrs, and letting
BE audience vote on them and never tell
hg which is whose until after the final de-
asion has been made. Aud the reason
by is that so many of the younger men
smbers of the club arc absent in the
tyce of the United states it has beer
possible to adequately cast the three
rs that have been chosen by the com.
5ttee.
5on account of this inability to produce
he plays the boald of governors decided
To award the prize money equally among
the three successful authors and they ar.
Mrs. Charles ID. Mitchell who has writer
'Golden Glow; Francis j. MacBeath
whose play is at the Golden Swan" anC
Alfred Barton, whose play The Barber
has won merit in the eyes Of the com
mttee. Alfred, by the way, is a secon,
}leutenant in the French cantecu service.
Its too bad Eve won't have the fun o
}oting and guessing who wrote what thi
year, but that is the way this year-notI
ms is as it used to be. now that we ar
war. Even the little pleasures ar
dihe;ent somehow they are not plentiful
yhen one realizes that "over there" ou
pen are already in the thick of it.
NANCY WYNNE.