Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-03-12

,rtt nT course, there's opera tonight,
w and though it is time-worn "Rlgoletto,'
,.,...o will be the new Spanish tenor. la.
.o IN hear, so that will put interest into
=, ,,orformance, The last time | heard
,n,uo,o,tor Titta Rufo sang. SO you may
,-'aa,,o the memories of the great bari
,oro I wonder where he Is now Ihere
,a,o been rumors that he has been Killed
.,tor rumors that he IS in the trcnches
..a s,iIl others that he is singing IN ltaly.
ne Inca will be the Rigoletto tonight,
"a ,bo New York papers speak very
,,ohlv of him in this role ] dare say the
,d tier will again be a blaze of light ana
81. There is virtually nothing else
sor society to do, you know ana IL Is proper
On keen up the music of the country III
.ni,s of wars, so there society makes lts
.nreararce week after week.
,pEAKING of music. yon should nave
y hoen out at Mrs. John u. mayer :
.o,,o In Haverford on Saturday afternoon.
yor never heard anything SO remarKaD'e'
.orsidering the ages Of the menoers' hs
roo,,al Of scandinavian music by the
Y,r,or Music club of the Main Lire
r,o c,uh was started only two years
-. ,rrs burton Chance and Mrs. Car
~ Hodge. Of Radnor and the members
oro children whose ages range from SeNe"
% sovonteen years They have been giving
,,,o recitals year so far, one at the 'ha'''
"a, yarnalls one at the Edward bealeS'
-, Mrs. Hodges and another at the
Merton Cricket Clup'
Tho recital at the club was given as
,oro6t performance and $500 was raised
~, tho French and Belgian orphans. They
-, ,tso nIodred $50 a year to the Phila'
dephia orchestra
cneaking of the orchestra, | wlsh you
,ad seen Polly Thayer who is III Inc
r,,ior club. by the way, as she Is not yet
soyenteem talking to Leopold StokoWaM
los, Tuesday night at the opera She
had on the pearl gray frock she wore
=, lack and Lois Thayer's wedding ana
her hair. which is just like her beautiful
,notber's. was caught up in soft Knot at
the back Of her head.
She was sitting on the rail talking l"
Mr. Stokowsld with all the saNolr
fore" of "A girl of many seasons Dut WIN
Tho added attraction of exquisite uncoir
scous beauty and youth. for she Is put
sixteen. though large for her age She Is
very like her mother, that same warm
coloring and lovely carriage
po,v plavod Romance" by Christian
sipding. at the concert Saturday afternoon
and she certainly was picture stanaihs
there i'm the soft light, with her Nlolih
tucked lovingly under her chin and all the
mischief gone from her roguish eyes as
the music in her carried her along. she
has spent two summers out in Minneapolis
studying under a very fine master ana
certainly has remarkable talent. She ana
Margaret Joyce played Grieg's "Solveig's
sonp, on harp and violin on Saturday.
Alice Benedict did some very fine violin
work, too, accompanied py her mother ana
the Norris twins, Louise and Virginia,
PLAYED a duo on the piano. Altogether II
was charming The other. children who
payed-and admirably too-were Maisie
and Helen Chance, Anna Pratt, Murlel ana
Dorothy Hodge, Sarah and Elizabeth Bar
ringer Gwendolyu Roberts, Dolly Duane
and Eleanor and Conway Clark.
ence, which I thought was pretty sweet
because these young officers do not often
get up from camp to see their brides, ana
1t would have been but natural for them to
go off somewhere by themselves rather
than to a childrens concert but they did
not. Jack came up from camp to the RITZ
Carlton, where Lois and Mrs. Cassat are
living, and he and Lois dined at Mrs.
Thayer's that night,
Another interesting person in the audi
ence was the wife of Ossip Gabrilowitsch
who is, as you know, "A daughter of the
late Mark Twain.
T NET her just the other day, and
said. when are you 10 be married.
"Well," she said, smiling, "in April, bu'
don't say anything about it to mother 1t
Is hard on mother; she's her only daughter
but then these things do happen and
mother had to leave her mother. Anyhow
the wee bird asked mother. when Is
daughter 10 be married. And mother
said, "Oh not for long time
That sounded fine for mother. but, on
the other hand, a house has just been
bought out on the Main Line by the young
man whose engagement to daughter was
announced just about three months ago
and somehow | don't foresee that he vii
live in 1t all alone SO | guess mother vii
have to give in, for there's no objection
whatever to the match and father, If the
bird tells true-and it generally manages
to give decided semblance TO the truth
ne had to tla NInt,, II i1nn
too. Time will tell. NANCY WYNNE.