Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-17
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
oncy lynne Tells OF Huge Ball Be Held in the academy
VI of Music February I3-Victory Week. February 1915
to Be One of Entertaining

lave you heard about the Victory ball
IL which is to be given on February liz
It the Academy of Music? perfectly
L ,uge affair, you know. In fact. the whoie
u we X is to be given over to entertaining.
I It's TO be called Victory Week, and the
= dea is to hold an entire week OF enter
aiming and fun, and the money received
! rom the entertaining will be used to raise
HI large Victory fund which the Emergency
\ I',id Is backing up. There Is to be every
and of entertainment you ever heard of.
sort of repetition Of the Made in Amer
"a Week." which the Emergency Aid got
l ip in 1885, only this is to be more so.
\ n Mrs. Barclay Warburton. Joe Widener
, ind Mrs. Henry Brinton Coke are at the
B ,ead of the ball and there is no doubt that
| will be huge and very gorgeous. 1t is to
I'VE q costume affair and will be very beau
Il iful, I'm told.
ENID you know the Junior Music Club
~ Of the Main Line will meet on the
asst Saturday of this month? And strange
Ito say, this time 1t is to be held in town
lind at the Richard Norrses' house, 500
North Twentieth street. I am beginning
10 look on these concerts, which are
casually given four times year. as quite
somethng to which to hope for an invi-
jhation.
! III Among the members are Alice Benedict,
libolly Thayer the Carol Hodges children,
4 Ahe Burton Chances little girls Elaine
\ Suplec who is q new member this year;
G.ouise and Virginia Norris and / can't
4 begin to remember all the others And
/, shey really do splendid work. Quite some
Eee musicians! OF course. all are not
tery wee" but they are all young.
ion't think there is any member over
III seventeen. and some are as young as ten
nd eleven.
lnkhR. AND MRS. ALEXANDER VAN
IfRv1 RENSSELAER, are going to help re-
Eceiye with the war service committee at
Ethis weeks reception for enlisted men up
\ at the Historical Society. DIR. Hollis God
II frey. president OF DreXel Institute, Will
Il make a short address and the Orpheus is
I,tO sing "A group of songs. Mrs. Hotz is
Itxoing to sing too. She has such delight
| ful voice and the most charming way of
using it. There will be the usual Liberty
sting. led by Mr.. Hoxie, and then dancing
and supper.
that missed quite a thrilling time. There
were about twelve hundred people there,
fncluding several hundred navy men with
q Number OF officers. The sailors had Just
II arrived at the navy yard from foreign
Il service, and represented the troop trans
N port Pocahontas and nine destroyers--the
% %Beale, the Stewart, the Worden. the Bor'
h roghs the Ammcn, the Mccall, the TruX'
tun, the Whipplc and the Cummings. Each
crew marched through the hall to the plat
form and was greeted with cheers. while
its brave deeds were sung" and applauded.
1t was a most stirring evening.
7NFEY hadn't seen each other for long
l. time anC they had great deal of
business as well as "reminiscences to talk
over at dinner. Each insisted that he was
the host as they sat down, and they both
decided that 1t would be nice to have some
caviar. So they ordered that among other
things and then started in. We'll, now,
this is the way look at it, and so forth
at great length. Once in while, both
= being hosts, one would interrupt for
minute to remark, "My, that caviar is
good: have some more" and then the talk
would deepen again.
Finally the dinner and the talk were
over and they called for their check
after the manner of Old King Cole-each
grabbing a corner as it was handed 10
them, Both looked at II and then dropped
it as If it had suddenly reached out red
hot claws to grab them. Host looked
at guest and guest looked at host. do
YOU see the same thing I see?' And you
can believe it or not, take it or leave 1t
they had consumed twenty.four whole dol
lars worth of caviar alone! incidentally
one of them is just recovering from appen'
dicitis, but of course that's another storyJ
NANCY WINNIE.