Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-25
.JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Discusses the RdbenPdppenheim Engagement
M armenia and Serbia Benefit BY Film Party at the
S Bellerue- -Strattord- Death of John B. HanH

nAuLrNE PAPPENHEIMs engagement
y. caused a ripple in social circles yes'er-
Hay. didn't it? She's marrying count
1too. so the family intends to remain Tor
eien. I've often wondered why mary
wheeler Pappenheim did not come home
10 America to live, as her marriage was
4 not a happy one and she and the count are
.enarated But I suppose she likes foreign
ways best
The countess and her daughters have
lot been living in Bavaria, but in London;
ct. the girls are decidedly more Eng
lish than German. which is blessing.
The Countess Pappenheim was the sec
\ ond daughter Of Mrs. Charles Wheeler OF
Pembroke, Bryn Mawr. Her sisters are
h Mrs Dick Elliot, Mrs. George Thayer Mrs
Henry Norris and Christine. who married
an Enclishman who was killed early in
the war ] think his name was Philip
a wainman, but l am not sure. Christine
sswas the youngest Of the family and was
3 quite a little girl when Mary was married
Ito Count Pappenheim. There was quite
an excitement at the time. what with civil
marriage and religious ceremony and one
spg and another.
N,y., Filter performed the civil cere-
Aand the religious one took place In
"a KS Church.
lknow the Bavarian Government
q the count resign al! rights and privi-
kes pertaining to his rank, so they had
Yno social eminence at all. That always
4 seems very funny to me, for many an
4 American who did not begin to have the
ancestors OF Mary Wheeler, whose family
connections are of the very first in Phila-
n delphia. mas by marrying a foreigner
q thereby and almost invariably shared his
rank at once. But there's Prussianism for
\ you, | was going to say. but 1t was Bavar.
ianism as u matter Of fact, was it not?
The count and countess were never di-
vorced. you know, as some persons think.
y She has settled a certain amount on him
per annum. and he did not consider it
enough so the. story goes, so when he de-
manded more she decided he wanted her
money more than he wanted her and left
him. He tried for a divorce, but was never
able to get it.
COCNT RABEN.- Paulue's fance. is a
n ~ Dane, and from all | hear very attrac-
Il tive. Pauline came out twelve years ago
n in London, and from various rumors which
4. reached this country it has only been a
matter of absolute choice on her part that
she remained Pappenheim until this time
n for she is very attractive and was much
4 sought after. No date has been fixed as
Yet for the wedding, but it will be in the
near future.
DAULINES cousins, the Elliot girls
l. were all very pretty and attractive
They are all married now. Suzanne. the
youngest. who came out just before oul
entrance into the war. married Rober
Donner; Natalie married F'tz-Hugh Green
Of the navy and Marjorie married Sydney
Brock. Their brother, Richard Mccall
Elliot, Jr.. you remember, was killed early
In the war. He was naval officer. Hi,
widow was Joan Packard, of this city anc
New York.
MERE YOU not sorry TO hear of th'
w death of Jack Hamill yesterday? II
was taken i'll last Saturday quite suddenly
"A = dis Sls, NduSeu DS lHt DIedNlHS OL
Nd blood vessel in the brain, was the imme
, diate cause of his death. Jack was Ger
\ tanly one fine man. So kindly, straight
Forward and strong. He vas a most de
Voted husband, father and brother. Hi
wife Mary Erben, you know and the!
had three or four children Do YOU re
member the terrible tragedy in that fam
lily when Marie IIamill, Jacks sister. am
4 her fiance. Neal Wolf were coming hom
VI from Atlantic City in an automobile an
4 were thrown over emhankment an
killed almost instantly? Marie was sue
4 = pretty, attractive girl. | don't believ
\ her brothers and sisters ever have &c
vQuite over the shock. The sisters are Gei
etrude and MARITIME Hamill.
The Hamils lived on West 'Wtlo,
Grove avenue at st. Martins. 1t was ther
hat Mr. Hamill's death occurred.
L.. LAVE you heard about the big nvitatiO
IL affair TO be given on Friday and Sat
(. urday night7 of next week at the Bellevue
Stratford? It's to be the first shown
"a Of the war film. "Ravished Armenia" an
M It's to be given under the auspices of III
#f Armenian and Serbian relief committee
4 of this country. Mrs. Oliver Hartman
t New York, is the national chairman, yo
I know
NJ ~ believe it's to be a subscription affai
but it is also an invitation party for tn
whole three performances, for there are
N b three--one Friday night one Saturda
1ight and one on Saturday afternoon.
seven prominent women are intereste
\, IN the affair The chairman is Mrs. Georl
Lorimer, and the committee includes Mr.
M award Stotesbury, Mrs. Barclay Wa
N burton, Mrs. Willis Martin Mrs. Cornelil
x ntsvenson, Mrs George Wharton Pepp
and Mrs. Joe Widener ! imagine it W
| RI b. mighty interesting; most of those invi