Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-05
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Vassar College to Have Special Intensive Nursing
.--. Course This Summer-Madame Homer
Sang at Morning Musicale

IND you Know that the American lieu
~ Cross has appropriated $4,000 to be
| given over to a course of intensive train
ing in nursing at Nassar College? The
course will be open TO Nassar graduates
only ard will take three months 1t Will
open in June as soon as possible after col
lege closes and will last through the three
summer months.
Under the appropriation the college Will
give the use of the buildings and labora-
tory; it WI also provide the teachers and
the uniforms for the students, so the only
personal expense incurred will be that of
board. e.-
This three months course covers the
amount of work usually done in six months
in the regular nurses course; any one tax
ing II, therefore, should be able to gradu-
ate two months, IL not three, sooner than
the nurse who takes the regular two years.
An earlier graduation through intensive
training Is allowed in all but two states
in the country
II certainly does seem like n splendid
chance for those girls who wish to take up
nursing, and especially at this time when
nurses are so greatly needed The authori-
ties rather expect that at least one thou.
sand Vassar graduates will take advantage
of the opportunity.
IT'S funny now there's so little doing
socially, to see how many more
people than usual dolled themselves up
on Saturday night and went up to the
private view at the Academy. There were
Il two brides in the receiving party, which
npl,y
4 have a husband 20 show for it, and she
was Charlotte Drayton. John is at camp,
you know 1t must be awfuly hard for
those poor little brides. Sometimes l won.
der if it would not be better for them to
have waited until the war is over; they
must be so lonely. Mrs Frank Patterson
was the other bride at the private view,
and, of course Mr.. Patterson was around.
ND you hear about Alden Lee and Edith
- Earle? Here he had expected to have
weeks leave and they had planned all kinds
of a wedding trip and he received orders to
report that very evening at Annapolis. and
so they did not have any wedding trip but
went direct there. It's strange how things
happen, isn't it? There's Alden's brother,
fnllltI, VIII was bINNl a. WI N"SS '~"'S
OF absence. and goodness knows he could
better have gone back that same day than
the poor brandnew bridegroom. I'm afraid
Sherman was good and right when he
said--well, you know what he said.
NNHE, Morning Musicale was fine, indeed,
i Yesterday morning. Madame Homer
kand her gorgeous voice can usually be re-
lied on to bring a full house. She sang
elghtfully, but one feels with her that
magnificent dramatic arias are more suit
hble than simple little songs. The prima
donna t. certainly nothing if not patriotic,
for she opened the concert with the Star
Spanglcd Banner" she gave the Battle
Hymn Of the Republic" as an encore and
finished with the Red Cross hymn, to music
by IIoratio Parker She wore a gorgeous
gown of old rose velvet and looked wonder
full. The usual knitting audience was pres
ent busily making toes in stockings and
purlins wristlets. Next Monday will see
the last musicale. and Maggie Teytc, of the
Chicago company, will sing.
COCIETY will be out in force at the Belle
~ vuc tomorrow evening when the Pen
and Pencil Club will give its annual Night
In Bohemia, for the entire proceeds will be
turned over to the overseas committee of
the Emergency Aid. The program will he
of great diversity and will be headed by
Miss Frieda Hempel, the famous colora-
tura soprano of the Metropolitan Opera
Company who will sing two of her most
effective numbers, Proch's Theme and
Variations" and Strausss Blue Danube"
Miss ucmpol has always been a pro-
nounccd faNoriIe in this city and will
make her last operate appearance this
season at the Metrolopitan Opera House
tonight us Violettd in LA Traviata" She
is famed, you know. as being the best
dressed singer on the stage, and her gown
in the third act of la Traviata" Is n
most wonderful creation, and with it Miss
lIempcl wears her entire magnificent jewel
collection.
OTHERS who will appear include De
" Wolf Hopper. Flora Zabelle, George
Arliss, John Drew. Julian Eltinge, Louise
Allen and the Marine Band fr IN the Navy
Yard, the conductor of which is First Ser
Geant Burr II. Ozmcnt. Among the pa
tronesses and box holders are Mrs. Bar
clay IL. Warburton, Mrs. Walter $. Taom-
son, Mrs. Gardner Cassatt, Mrs. William G.
Warden, Mrs. Samuel Bell. Jr., Mrs Rus
sell Jones. Mrs. ~renchard Newbold, Mrs.
John C. Norris Mrs. Edward Browning.
Mrs. William Clother, Jr., Mrs. Harry
VAIN Harrison, Mrs. 7. c. Madeira, Mrs.
Dobson Altemus, Mrs. George McFadden,
Mrs. j. Kearsley Mitchell, Sd, Mrs Thomas
McKean Mrs. William S. Ellis and Mrs.
George Wharton Pepper.
NANCY WINNIE