Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-17


~ Fif Widener would come out this
summer at Newport and here next
winter, but they're "all wrong, Alloy
sius," she is not coming out. She's
only seventeen anyhow. and besides hal
another year at school. She goes tC
Foxcroft, you know, and there she viii
he next season.
Fits real name is. Josephine. named
after her father who is Joe Widener
Her mother was Miss Ella Pancoast, {
daughter of the late Albert Pancoas
and Mrs. Pancoast and sister of Mrs
Benjamin B. Reath of this city. Mrs
Widener has been married twice. Hel
first husband was Mr.. Herberton. HI
was taken i'll very shortly after theii
wedding trip and died when they hat
been married only "a very few months
Some years after his death Mrs
Herberton married Mr.. Widener. Sh'
Is one Of the prettiest matrons of Phil
adelphia and is extremely popular herr
and in Europe, Palm Beach, New
York, Newport and many other large
cities and leading resorts. Fifi has hei
mothers dark hair and gray blue eyes
TIME was when amateur theatrical'
i were popular with the younger set
but goodness they're not in it will
movies. They are ''absotively' thu
latest. I was there on Monday night
there being the Wayne Moving Picture
Theatre; and seeing is believing, yot
know.
Under the patronage Of Mrs. Lewis
Nelson, the house was packed with a.
gala throng of enthusiastic parents
and fascinating offspring as eve'
graced an assemblage. Several reels
were shown. the first being an ltaliar
film which Lieutenant Colonel Robert
Glendinning, of the aviation corps, hat
brought to America. 1t portrayed th'
king of Italy decorating Capronl, th'
great italian aviator.
Then came the fun. for the Other
films were entirely localized talent. My
dears, could you have seen some OF oui
recent debutantes and even some OF th'
1920 crop registering Mary Plckfort
coyness or Theda Bara vamping, yot
would have realized. as did /, that thu
coming generation is capable of more
than ''handing out line
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Nelson were
shown welcoming guests in their garder
at Coolock, their st. Davids home, ant
the sedate arrival of some former de
butantes, such as Miss Gainor Baird
Miss Margaretta .Jeanes, Miss Betty
Tucker and Miss Elisabeth McMichael
was lightened later by the more frolic
some entrance of Miss Polly Thayer ant
Miss Ellen Glendinning.
But do not think that the fairer Sc,
alone was representation, dear no
nothing of the kind, not at all; Billie
Stroud. Barclay McF'adden, Scott Ian
dreth. Harry Nelson. Charlie Myers
Fred Madeira. Frederick Drayton, Jot
Ewing, Charlie Morgan and Clayton
McMichael all made excellent movie
heroes, believe me.
Representing the younger married set
] saw Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Bell, Jr.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Thayer, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Robert Dale and Mrs. Crawford
Madeira.
The film, found out. was made
under the direction of Charlie Morgan
who. with Harry Nelson and Claytor
McMichael, worked up the technical de
tails. Clayton McMichael showed th'
films for the first time at the Masl
and Wig Club the night Of June 30
when he and Harry Nelson gave a din
ner and dance for Miss Martha Meal
lister and Sewell BorIe, whose engage
ment was announced shortly before thai
time.
Altogether it was one enjoyable eve
ming Monday. There's something aw'
fully exciting in seeing oneself in thu
movies, and the audience was excited
accordingly.
NAPE MAYITES are greatly dis
W tressed to have the wounded soldiers
Snoved from there. They have beer
6here for two years and every one dowr
mt the resort began to feel as II nc
or she owned those soldiers, but 1t has
been decided to send them to other hos
pitals now and the motor messengers
of Short Hills, \. j., and members
of the National League for Women
Service have been moving the sick and
wounded soldiers to the trains for the
last few days.
Ihey are DelnS sent W io'' Ai'
Henry or Staten Island, rumor says.
II will certainly be strange to walk
on the boardwalk in Cape May and not
meet men in wheeled chairs, men with
bandaged arms and faces, men on
crutches or wearing black glasses and
being led by others. After the cape
] Mayites get over feeling sore about
1t, they will probably breathe in relief
in a wey, for kind though your hear
might be, you could not help being
depressed seeing those poor souls sur
fering.
T SAW Molly Smith, daughter of, Mr.
i and Mrs. Horace Eugene Smith, in
most becoming gown of cernfower blu'
chiffon on the Cape May boardwalk thi
week. The skirt was made with large
tucks and a plain waist with lovel,
Venetian lace collar and a girdle oi
cloth of silver.
NANCY WYNNE.-