Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-14

lave you seen Mrs. Joe Widener's gown
of black lace? It's made, of course, in
the very latest fashion: and incidentally.
unless you happen to look like Mrs. Wide
ner. that is, as petite and dainty and pretty,
don't try to copy it, for it just suits her;
but l don't think it would suit everybody.
But then that is the beauty OF it. The
bodice is made entirely of sort of black
chautilly lace and is perfectly plain in front.
coming straight up and across from shoulder
TO shoulder in perfectly straight line, so
that you would scarcely think it an evening
dress until you see the back: and 10 and
behold. it has a very low necked back
The frock has long. tight fitting sleeves,
rather narrow skirt and strcamcr sash.
It's wonderfully becoming to her.
JUDGING from the number Of box parties
e to be given at the Mask aud Wig next
week. large though the Forrest Theatre is,
! find it hard to realize that it will be able
to seat the numbers who are going and who
plan to entertain through the week. They
try it on the dog so to speak. you know,
by giving the first performance down at At
lantic City on Easter Eve, and then they
open here on Faster Monday night. It's
going to be a bit different from the former
Mask and Wig performances, ] understand.
in that it's on the order of the Iegfeld
1t opens with a sort of prologue or mono
logue in verse by one Benjamin Franklin.
who comments on the things that have hap
pened to his University since it was school
at Ninth and Market streets until the pres
ent day. He asks to see some of the features
of the old Mask and Wig shows and also
wants TO know how the Mask and Wig
parodies other shows and then follow twelve
different variety scenes. It's all in vaude-
VILE style and has no connection, | under
stand. Two big features arcSto be- a satire
on the league Of nations and skit on po
litical and social conditions in the country.
and a buricsquc on "When the Country Goes
Dfy."
Altogeiher it's going to be great, don't
you think <
Charlie lGilpin has written the music. as
usual. and Charlie Morgan has taught the
dancing,
Among those who will entertain during the
week at box parties are DR.. and Mrs. Joseph
Leidy. Mr.. and Mrs Joseph 3. Townsend,
Jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. George Peterson. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Young Fox Mrs. Dale +.
Filter. Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Spencer. Mrs. w.
W. Filter. Mrs. Victor G.. Mather. Mrs.
Robert y. Wilson, Miss Julia Wood, DIR.
and Mrs. Thomas G.. Ashton, Mr.. and
Mrs. W. Chattin Wctherill. Mr.. and Mrs.
Hollinshead y. Taylor, Mrs. Charles Neil
son. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter +. Hagar, Miss
Mary Brown Warburton. Mrs. Edward II.
Stotcsbury, Mrs. Murdoch Kendrick Mrs.
Walter B. Saunders. Miss Elizabeth Gribbel,
Mr.. Charles Gipin. Mr.. and Mrs. c. A.
Heckscher Wetherl and any number of
others.
T HEAR it's quite gay down at White
L Sulphur now. Mr.. and Mrs. Petcy Rob-
erts arc there and they entertain quite often
at the Rates Mountain Club, and the Cas-
per w. r. Townsends and J. Barton Town
send are there. and many are the exciting
tennis matches the latter has with Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Ellison. Mrs. Albert p. Fran
cine and the H.. c. Thayers. Mr.. and Mrs.
Corlies Morgan are staying at the Green
bricr and Mr.. and Mrs. Rodman Grscom.
The Griscoms are always at the Casino for
tea and bridge after Mr.. Griscom's round of
golf. / hear that Mrs. Rodman Wanamaker
has gone there. too. now. with her brother,
Lieutenant +. Il. Cruger. and Mrs. Cruger.
You know Mrs. Cruger was with Mrs. Wan
y amaker at her house. the Priscilla Cottage,
at Palm Beach, until Mrs. Wanamaker de-
cdcd to give up housekeeping and went to
the Poinciana for the rest of the winter.
Mrs. Cruger went on up to New York to
meet her husband, who was coming back
from France, and now they are all three at
The Greenbrier.
I TITLE Barbara. aged FIVE sees differ
IL ence whatever in class; so they be
good and kind is all she asks. The other day
she electrified her family. 1t happened thus
The side wall of the cellar was being white
washed by one who was sad indeed in ap
pearance. His complexion was not of the
,leanest ever viewed and he was msrked
deep with smallpox pits. Besides this, he
had wooden leg. Be that as it may, he
knew how to whitewash and that was the
point Barbara, however, did not think it
ended there. And when she was called to
lunch she said to her mother: Poor George,
he's hurt his leg, it's so sore, and it hurts
him. l asked him in to lunch with us, but
he said his was coming to him.
NANCY WYNNE.