Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-03
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Anticipates Delightful Euenig the Play and
Players-Dinners Before Lockwood Closs-TUo Points
of VieU Dancing

rTHE Plays and Players will give one OF
u their interesting musical evenings on
Sunday night at the Playroom. and II
sounds as II 1t would be worth going 10.
Mrs Robert Meade Smith, Jr" Is going TO
sing. You remember she was margaret
Ritter and married Bob Smith about two
years ago. She has lovely voice, dra-
matte soprano. Mrs. Joseph Janney STEM
metz will play the piano. Dan Donovan is
TO sing and Mrs. Mahon will accompany
both soloists. Mrs ScammonJones Is In
charge of the program.
The Plays and Players certainly have
talented persons in their membership. 1t
makes things so dandy when you have
people about who can always entertain at
a moments notice. There's Elizabeth
Latta, for instance. At clubnight last
month she was In the audience, and be-
tween the giving Of the two plays some
one asked her to sing, and she sang the
Star Spangled Banner" and lovely little
italian thing in the simplest, most charm
ing way Her voice is so fresh and sweet,
I just love to hear her. You remember
when she made her debut at one Of the
Biddle concerts.
wonder IL Tony Biddle will get up a
concert for his Bible classes now that the
war Is over? Those concerts were among
the Joys Of the winter! The introductions
of the singers and the presentations of
bouquets and all the rest Of it made an
evening very few would want to miss And
the singing was nearly always good.
NOT
w Gracey Adnms's death on Tuesday in
New York? Do you remember how at
tractive she was when she used to come
on here to visit several years ago? l re.
member she stayed with the Lussons out
in Ardmore. ut was the year Lucille
came out, and Edith was quite a friend OF
n hers) She was the daughter OF Archibald
y Gracey and was as pretty and attractive
\ as could be. She was married just about
n year ago in washington to Dunbar b.
n Adams, and she had been living at the
Savoy in New York since tnen. About a
week ago she contracted influenza and
n with the fateful pneumonia setting in, she
died on New Years Eve.
III TIME Younger set in Chestnut Hill are
VI tonight It's Miss Lockwood's class, you
Y know, and there are to be several dinners
"a Xbeforehand. DIR. and Mrs. Murray Ellzey
ipf 106 Highland avenue. will give dinner
Tor their two daughters. Alice and Mary
<1rhe guests will be Caroline Davis, Polly
Davis, Agnes Hammill, Mildred McCloskey
aoland Morgan, Jr., Charles Cowper
hwaite, Jr, Thaxter Bicknell. Barry Cola
an, 4th, Daniel Donahue and James Muir.
IN Ellzey, Jr. Mr.. and Mrs. Nathanie
Knowles are going to have a dinner. too
honor Of Nancy. and their guests will
Just a little older; not much. but enough
have a separate dancing class. 1t will
k|ke a big evening. because there are Sc
gbchool for the holidays.
NID you know that Mary Wharton
Sturgis and her husband have returned
nome again after spending the holiday
With Alanson's father and mother up II
Boston, Mass? The Sturgses have beel
part of the winter with Mary
St tparents, Dr. and Mrs. Harry Wharton OF
{A Spruce street near Eighteenth. Alanso
"A is an ensign in the navy and has been sta
N toned in this city for a short time.
M vITHEN you're married and have two pei
w fectly beautiful daughters, one age
two and t'other about three months ole
and you haven't danced for about thre
X years, you are apt to feel like an old ma
"a when you go to one of these modern
NJ dances. Daddy" isn't day over twent,
"a six, but he has all the above-mentione
symptoms. and he felt old and haggar
on New Years Day after trying to do
fox trot while surrounded by about eigh
thousand people all doing the same thint
"Oh, It was awful" he said afterwarC
"The music wasn't very good and the foo
was jammed, and just as you'd get clea
place to step on along comes one Of thes
infants that don't care what they bum
into as long as 1t doesn't stop them
couldn't get along at all"
4 Five minutes later in breezed younge
brother, aged seventeen. "Oh. you misse
a wonderful party" he told his mothe
why. Gee! They had two banjos and
saxaphone and all the other stuff and the
could play music; and the floor was grea,
and oh, boy, there were some good dancer
there!"
Point of view makes an awful lot
difference "in this mans country" as the
say in the army, doesn't 1t?
NANCY wYNNE.