Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-19
\ JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks of the Wmts Dancing Class Tonight
Mr.. and Mrs. Flagg to Entertain for
Miss GeyeLin

THB younger set will be very gay to-
Il night at the Bellevue. There viii be
the meeting Of Mrs, Stewart Wurts's
dancing class and the Penn Charter play
in the ballroom, which will be followed
BY dancing. Then, too, Mr., and Mrs.
Stanley Flagg will give a dinner dance
for Antoinette Geyelin, to which mem
bers. OF the debutante set have been in =.
vited
There are to be several dinners be-
fore the Wurts class. The William
Dayton Oranges will give party Tor
Frances Gerhard, and the Howard
Butchers will entertain for Margaret
Tatnall, while Mrs. Theodore Spencer
will give dinner for her daughter Car
roll, and DR.. and Mrs. Richard Norris
viii entertain fifty boys and girls in
honor of their twin daughters.
A ND haven't got an idea in my
"A head as to what else to talk about
today. Perhaps you will claim that l
never do have, but these days it's the
atre party, supper dance, opera, ball,
day in and day out and though some
thing different happens at all these
parties, they really are pretty much
the same now, aren't they? You won
der If other people think Margaret g
dress is as pretty as yours, and where
on earth Jack l. managed to find that
which he must have found before he
came. to the party, as otherwise he
would not be quite so-so-well, you
know.
And how on earth Helen D. has
the nerve to appear in that same old
dress ball after ball? And what Sarah
F-'s mother is thinking OF to
allow her to 20 out Of her own room,
let alone into ballroom in that frock
And you hope the eats and music will
be good, and wish it were over.
That's it Too much of it.
After years of little or no entertain
ing this plunge into gayety is too much,
we're fed up, as it were, and we're
sh sh whisper it-we're almost bored
to death with it. However, one should
not get bored with opera because there
is real music there, and good plays are
always joy.
THE awful part of being a debutante
l. is that you often have to sit through
the same play as many as eight or
nine times. Because, you see, the play
has a run here and it's very good and
so whenever Mr.. and Mrs. T de-
eide to give theatre party they say ::
Let's take them to see D., that s
say the same thing. And so we cannot
wonder sometimes if the debutantes do
get a bit bored ut the same play over
and over and forestall the star by tell
ing her speeches out loud before she has
the chance to get them off.
It might be an idea for the host and
hostess tc say in the invitation what
the play is to be. as then the deb
who has gone and gone to see. it might
resign in favor of a fellow debutante
who, perhaps, had not been so fortunate
as herself as to invitations. l am sure
the hostess and host at a box party l
saw this week would have preferred to
have their guests stay at home than be-
have as they did You know we are not
polite these days and it's about time we
we're caught up, | really think it..
The very young people become horri-
lied at the Interpretation some of their
elders put upon their actions. And 1t
does seem as if the mothers in many
cases were much to blame for the want
If proper behavior, but it is not fair to
blame them for everything.
After ALL girl of eighteen or nine
teen knows enough in these days to
know how to behave and most of them
have been properly brought up for that
matter, so what will you!
There are not very many who offend ;
in fact, among the debutantes this year
are some of the sweetest little girls |
have seen for many a day. And their
manners are lovely. but the exception,
you know, proves the rule. Take it
either way you want it. How about it ?
Have you finished your shopping yet? p?
I tried to yesterday and ended by
spending an hour buying myself dress.
A good way to do, don't you think
Makes you race back to the stores to
buy the other things later.
r HEAR Mrs. Robert Lesley and the
L women associated with her on the
board of st. Vincent's Aid Society
are getting up doings for Monday. jan
uary 12, in the Bellevue Stratford ball
room. Charlie Morgan is drilling the
dancers, and from whispers | have
heard it will be very artistic and pretty
and end up with general dancing.
Whether it's play or vaudeville seems
to be q mystery. Who shall say? The
thing to do is to go and see for our :
selves. With Mrs. Lesley on the board
are Mrs. Archibald Barklie, Mrs. James
A. Mundy, Mrs. Charles Hoban, Mrs.
James Wilcox, Miss Laura Blackburn
Miss Anne Thomson, Mrs. Percy Keat-
ing. Mrs. Samuel Castner, Jr., Mrs. A.
N. Burke, Mrs. M. Il. H. McMichen
Mrs. Fielding o. Lewis, Miss Adele
Jack, Mrs. Henry +. Michel, Mrs.
Thomas Hunter, Mrs. William Ryan,
Mrs. Sheehan and Mrs. Fountain.
NANCY WYNNE.