Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-07
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks OF the Coming Horse Sho,c-She
Speaks Of the BiddIe-Ne,Olin Engagement.
Other Matters
Other Matters

with the Horse Show, which opens to-
morrow out at Bryn Mawr. l really
think it will be even gayer than the
Devon one last spring, and that GER
tainly was one peach of n show, with
its French village and all the rest of
it! This Is for the Bryn Mawr Hos
pital, you know, and / hope it nets
lot for that worthy institution. 1t
certainly is a beautiful spot, is it not?
The Jack Valentines are giving
dinner tomorrow night and Mrs. Alex
ander Brown will entertain on Thurs
day, while the Charles Munns and Alix
Dolan are to entertain on Saturday
night at dinners.
I told you l think that the Valen-
tines have the Frank Bonsals with them
for the show. Mrs Bonsal is Mr..
Plunkett Stewards sister. incidentally
Doris Stewart is going to ride in the
show. She is about nine years old,
think, and looks awfully cunning on
her pony.
| suppose most of the debutantes will
go out to the show. and l certainly do
like to see them. Eleanor Wurts looked
50 attractive at the Thayers tea on
Saturday. She was wearing n very
smart light brown suit and hat that
toned in with her flashing brown eyes.
like to watch her so much There's
certain fresh girlishness and abandon
that is very attractive. Somehow, you
always feel there's going to be some
thing doing as soon as she appears on
the scene.
THE Pope Yeatmans tea yesterday
l. was n pretty affair, and it really
was quite a relief to have only one to
go to. wasn't it? Jane looked perfectly
sweet in her dainty satin and tulle
frock. Caroline Barclay, Elizabeth
Barlow. Florence Griffith, Mary Page.
Celestine Warder, Harriet thinner
mann, Hope Wilson. Florence Kane,
Elizabeth Field and Marina and Frances
Wister were in the receiving party.
And Mrs. Yeatman had asked Mrs. \.
J. Dallas Dixon, Mrs. Howard Wurts
Page, Mrs. Austin Purves and Miss
Elizabeth Andrews Harris to preside
at the tea table.
CEEING the Wister girls reminds me
- that they will make their debut on
October 13, out at the old Wister house
in Logan. 1t is called Butler Place,
you know, and has been in the Wister
family for generations. Both Marina
and Fanny are Wisters from start to
finish, as it were. Their mother, who
died several years ago and who was
one of the most greatly loved women in
this city, was Miss Mary Wister the
daughter of Mrs. William Rotch Wis
ter. and Mr.. Owen Wister was her
cousin as we'll as her husband.
Mrs. Wister was one of the founders
of the Civic Club and was, if my mem
ory serves me right, its first president.
Indeed, the club members attribute
much of their success in their under
takings to the memory Of her undying
spirit and strong purpose in the great
work she undertook and carried on.
Miss Frances A. Wister, their
mothers sister. will chaperon Marina
and Frances at most of the parties.
OF course, their fathers talent as
writer is undispute1. Most of us have
read and enjoyed his books beyond
words.
Unlike the children of most genilses.
the Wister girls are very talented and
very attractive. Marina is very mu-
steal and has decided literary streak.
The story goes that at the age Of ten
she wrote an opera and taught her
younger brothers and sisters their yari-
Gus parts. But these girls are not the
clever kind that make people stand off.
On the contrary, they are simple, nat
ural. sweet girls, good takers, full of
life and humor, and are very good look
ing, Frances is named for her ances-
tress, the actress Fanny Kemble.
Wouldn't you love to hear that
opera? Perhaps it's as funny as the
book Marie Louise Wanamaker Mum
wrote when she was eight and sent to
her father as birthday gift. That was
even illustrated by the young authoress.
Another engagement in the Newlin
family Did you ever know anything
to beat it? Last year Caverley, and
he's married now; a month ago Louisa
and Beau Whitney and now Adelaide
and Livingston Biddle. Adelaide is only
just coming out this year and, in fact,
Major and Mrs. Newlin are giving a
party for her and Louisa and the j.
Caverly Newlin, Jrs., this evening
at the Merton Cricket Club.
Adelaide is named after her mother,
who was Miss Adelaide Sims, q sister
of Admiral Sims, and Adelaide's middle
name is Sims, too. She is very good
looking, attractive girl with dark hair
and eyes and very charming man
ner. Liv Biddle, as you know, is the
younger son of the Tony Biddles, a
brother of Tony, Jr,,' who married
Mary Duke, and of Cordelia, who mar
ried Angler Duke.
TTHEY were just married last week
i and they started off on their honey
moon with much determination not to
let any one think that they had not
been married for years. You know how
you all do. So when their car reached
a country road, before they took their
train, they called halt and both got
out; and, taking a clothes brush which
the bride had put into her bag, pro-
ceeded to brush all the confetti and
rice off of each others clothes.
When they reached their hotel they
took even further precautions and shook
their coats and wraps thoroughly. Fin
ally, when they descended to the din
ing room for dinner, they even had that
world weary air of being almost bored
that no one was coming in to dine
with them that evening. They really
did 1t well.
Everything went beautifully till the
coffee WAS served then Young husban