Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
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Faces at Opera Last Evening

Faces at Oper,
HEAR that the william Hayward
Myerses, OF st. Davids, are going to
move down to Haverford this month.
They've been living for years in the Wal
ton house at St. Davds and have now
taken the Allen Evans place in Haverford.
1T is not so large house. but then the
MNerses do not need so large home now
that their four daughters are married and
have, since the end of the war; moved into
houses of their own, for the husbands have
all returned with the exception of Harry
Wharton, who married MargareNa Myers,
and she is with him out in California,
where he Is stationed
Marian, you remember, married George
Wharton Pepper. Jr. He has been mus
tered out of the service and has taken a
house on Midland avenue. st. Davids, and
they moved into it last week. Jacob Diss-
ton, Jr.. who married Sarah Myers, has
taken a house in Germantown, which he
and Sarah are occupying now, and the
John Forsyth Meigses have house at
Newtown road in Radnor. Mrs. Meiss was
Elizabeth Myers. you remember. There is
Myers son. He has been in the service,
too. but is not yet mustered out. At least
that's my impression, but you can never
be sure, for nowadays you're in the service
one day and the next you're out.
The Myers home in st. Davids was the
old Walton house. and | am told that Mrs.
Walton is going there to live this spring
instead of opening the big new place.
nIDN"r you nearly choke at the opera
~ last night when Martinelli and Muzio
were locked in each others arms for about
three reel" kiss and some woman in
the audience snorted right out loud. There
was a ripple of laughter all over the
opera house, after the snort, just as Mar
tineli came up for air for the third time.
Some kiss.
Well everybody was there and in some
very fetching new frocks, believe me. I
was muchly struck with Mrs. Harold Sands
gown, it was of creamy satin and silver
lace cut very, very low in the back and
held over the shoulders with filmy tulle and
lace bands and sort of tiny half sleeves. 1t
was one of the most shmmery frocks
have seen for long time. Mrs. Stotes-
bury who came back from Palm Beach just
this last week wore white gown and her
emeralds. Really some of them are the
size of eggs. Simply gorgeous! Her wrap
was of white velvet with huge sable
collar. Mrs. Jimmie Sullivan was looking
very charming in lovely frock of pale
orchid silk and lace. And Frances was in
a dress of canary yellow silk and lace.
Mrs Sullivan has such pretty figure.
I. Have you noticed how much filmy, cob
webby lace there is on the new frocks?
Especially on the bodices. People GER
tainly have run to velvet this season,
though it seemed to me that every other
gown last night was of velvet in some
extraordinary shade. Lucille Carter had
a velvet creation which was the most Won
derful green blue and was combined with
chiffon of the same color. Many of the
velvet dresses have the severe shaped
lines in front and back and are drawn up
on the shoulders into sort of knot. The
skirts l noted are mostly narrow and the
fondness for, little narrow trains seems
10 be passing. There were very few on
/, the grand tier last night. Ella DuBarry
was there, by the way, up from Wash.
ington. She looked extremely well in
black gown, a combination of velvets and
point d'esprit.
I have seldom see Mrs. Trenchard New.
bold look as well. She was wearing per-
fectly beautiful gown Of geranium rose
satin. I don't believe any one else could
have worn such color and gotten away
with it, but Mrs. Newbold not only got
away with it, but she looked perfectly
stunning in it. 1 was amused to see
81, rho,,i nf hn
draperies to another woman who was ex-
claiming at the lovely gown.
NTASN'T Mrs. Paternotte interesting on
w Tuesday afternoon at the Independence
Square Red Cross? And isn't she good
looking? She has the most animated face
and laughing brown eyes, and such lovely
coloring. She came back from Belgium
just about a month ago and had been in
Brussels visiting her "parentsn-law" after
the armistice. Just think of it! From the
beginning of the war Mr. Paternotte was
unable to learn anything Of his parents.
He knew that they were in Brussels at the
outset, but whether they were alive or in
want 1t was not possible to tell. What a
reunion that must have been when he and
his wife managed to get to them! l sup
pose even his marriage was not known to
them, as Mr.. Paternotte Lad been inva-
lided in the Belgian army and came here
to build up his strength. 1t was then that
he met Anna Snow and married her about
year after the war had started.
When he was able to enlist once more
he was accepted in the English army and
Mrs. Paternotte went to Belgium about
the same time to help in war work. Later
he was transferred to the Belgian army
and was in Belgium when the armistice
was signed ..'.R
The talks at COS are certainly most in
teresting. Next weeks will be unique in
that Andrew Toombes, the actor leading
man of "Flo Flo," will talk He is going
to tell the workers of the work done for
the soldiers by the actors during the war.