Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-10
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks OF Many Things-Mrs Horace S. Lee Hal
Been Stopping With Mr.. and Mrs. Horace H. Lee.
Mrs. William Yarro,o Home From Ne,v York

HNTHAT with weddings now every week
w or SO and one thing and another the
season is moving on, isn't it? There's the
Hudson. andolph wedding today and the
Brownback- Kennedy wedding last Saturday
and on the 21st Helen Towers wedding to
Major Robertson, and on the 31st Mary
Parkard and Doctor Billings. First thing
you know thereIl be other dates and en-
gagcments and weddings. You just wait!
hid you know that Horace Lees wife
- has been ON here staying with her
in.laws, the Horace H. Lees? She was
Bertha Clark, of Meriden, Conn, and she
and Horace were married at Camp Upton
Just a few days before he sailed for
France. The wedding took place the 5th
of November. Every one who has met
Mrs. Lee is charmed with her. She Ger.
tainly Is attractive. Whenever you hear
of an out-of-town engagement you are nat.
urally curious to see the party of the
second part and you're apt to be a bit criti-
cal. So it's hard to come to strange
town, especially when your husband Is not
with you to help you out by giving you a
line on this or that one so you won't make
any faux pas about any ones pet fad or
aversion. And when one had come and
been seen and has conquered, it's some
triumph.
And young Mrs Lee has certainly passed
muster. She's very, very lovely. The en-
gagement was announced last spring, and
when Horace received his sailing orders
they decided to be married and not wait till
his return. The camp chaplain offlciated.
and two or three days after the ceremony
Horace sailed for France. Who knows.
however, with the return of so many troops
that he may not be sent back soon.
MRS. WILLIAM YARRow has been
A'A having mighty good time in New
York, where she was visiting her friend
Mrs. Edwin Wilson. Among the en-.
tertainments given for her during her stay
there was a dinner by Baron D'Aigny.
Captain Lantz. Of the French War Mission,
and Prince and Princess Vlora also enter.
Atained in her honor. Mrs. Yarrow is going
to dance In the Charity Ball in a set Mar.
garet Berwind is getting up.
l must say I'm looking forward to the
Charity Ball. for there is no doubt that the
girls will be as cute as possible in their
Kate Greenaways and Dolly brakes. I'm
wondering who will be the Bobby Blakes.
Maybe they will be girls. too. Certainly it
Would not be possible to get enough men
back from the war.
OPERA tonight and the Monday musicale
~ yesterday, and this afternoon Isaac
Marcossan at the Independence Square
Red Cross auxiliary, and Alice Wharton
there yesterday and the Plays and Players
last night and tonight, again at the Play
rooms. I'll say its some busy week.
do love the informal affairs at the
Plays and Players. and the whole bunch
was certainly in good form last night.
English Night they called it, and they gave
\ Barrie and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
play. Kate Seeler looked awfully pretty.
And it strikes me she has decided talent,
what do you think?
It's always more fun at the Playrooms
than in the Little Theatre because you
sore Of wear anything. full dress or after
noon gown or shirtwaist If you feel like it.
And then men wear dress clothes or dinner
coats or business suits and nobody says
anything. It's some little club!
IT'S sort of blow to find that the captain
! whose insignia you happen to be wear
Ing on your coat is not the same little tin
god to your best friend that he is to you.
However. If you persevere, you may be
able to change her mind. If you go at It
right you surely will. heard a mind
being changed by two voices back Of me
on the trolley yesterday, and since the
voices We're quite audible and the remarks
quite amusing. I got the conversation
almost "as was" One said: HE certainly
hates himself, doesn't he?" to which the
other made reply. well, you can't blame