Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07

LAVE you heard about the elaborate
- AFFAIR that iS to be given every eve
ming next week at the Walton for the
benefit Of the Tobacco Fund of the OVER
seas Committee OF the Emergency Aid?
It's to be a sort of vaudeville performance.
and theatrical celebrities now appearing
here will attend and take part.
Members of the "Chu Chin Chow" and
~Leave 1t to Jane" companies will appear
Z in specialties, while various artists from
Keitt's win also be on the program. And
Geraldine Farrar has been invited and has
signifed her intention of coming, though
the actual night has not yet been desig-
mated.
There will also be several addresses by
Four-Minute Men and Liberty Sings under
s0pert leaders, and the guests are to
!. dance in between the various doings The
general entertainment will begin at 10
O'Clock in the evening and last until l.
It's been so long since We have had
any kind of parties this ought to go
with vim, don't you think? There are so
many women of prominence on the COM
mittee that Society with a capital will
surely be represented.
nEIE news of Dick Bullitt's death in
~ action in France was confirmed yester-
day, when members Of his family received
letters from some of his friends. You
know they received cable three weeks
ago announcing his death, and then next
day came three letters which were dated
1 after the time of the death stated by the
Government.
The Red Cross and. various other sources
Of information followed up the news Tor
an explanation, but until yesterday there
was nothing to confirm the report. Then
came letter from William Hopkins, son
Of Mrs Johns Hopkins, Of this city, and a
close friend of Dicks. He wrote telling
Miss Bullitt that her brother had died
like a man" at the head Of his platoon
from a machine-gun wound, and that he
had been buried IL France. and that he
/ had been present at the grave.
Dr. Ellison Morris also received letter
from one of his sons yesterday, in which
he said that on his way to the front
they had come to Dicks grave, and that
they had stood at attention and saluted
"a brave comrade and old friend"
It must be comfort to know that death
was instantaneous, and it was glorious
.
quiem mass for the repose Of his soul will
be sung by the Rev. Lawrence Wall at
st. Dominic's Church, in Holmesburg| on
Wednesday. September 10. at 10 o'clock.
The Bullitts have lived most of their
4 lives in Torresdale. you know, and at
tended church in Holmesburg. where the
daughter, Maria, who was killed in the
New Haven wreck Of 1918, and Mrs. Bul.
hit who died about two years ago, are
1 buried in the lovely little churchyard.
PREPARATIONS for the Horse Show
u are going on apace. but in the mean
time have you heard OF. the ribbons 1sa-
bella wanamaker and Constance Vauclain
won at the Rochester show? Pretty soon
= these girls will have only blue.ribbon
horses and absolutely no others. They are
both splendid horsewomen and have been
since they were big enough to keep their
\ balance on saddle. They ride and drive
splendidly and are altogether stunning
looking in riding clothes. They both have
\ NiT entries In the Bryn Mawr Show.
TyHE entertainment given by the marines
- Of Camp Fuller, Paoli, last night In the
Wayne Theatre was really remarkably
good You see the men have been enter
tanned a lot and wanted to show their
appreciatioi,- of that fact, and SO they got
s ,Ip a vaudeville affair, and Donald NC
8 Donald, now marine, but recently leading
man in Have a Heart" and "Toot-Toot,"
had the affair in charge.
It was given through the courtesy OF
Mai Meade. who is in command OF the
ms - Camp Fuller. and thirty ma
/, rines rom eight, hundred members
a. the SiKaa s3rps Battalion, took part
There was no makeup. They sang and
acted and recited in their khaki uniforms,
ana, my dear. 1t was simply great! Mrs.
rowland johnson. who was Helen Sylves'
Tar. YOU remember, danced several eX'
ouisite things. She Is so graceful don't
I'M think? And Bessie Philips sang as
only Bessie can sing, and that Is saying
.ornething, for it certainly is treat TO
hear her.
=. And the best of it all in that it was
Z for the benefit Of the Musical Records and
9snes committee Of the National League
#for Wonan's Service, SO you could enjoy
IL ana still feel that YOU were helping
mighty good work. Mrs. Pere Wilmer is
chairman of that committee, you know.
NANCY wYNNE.