Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-03
GIRLS TO GIVE PLAY
FOR WOUNDED YANKS
Angel" Of Army Hospital at Cape
May Avives Spirits Of Con-
vatescents There

Lying around getting well at an army
convalescent hospital is pretty tedious for
soldiers who have spent year or so in
active campaigning in France.
Transition from the field of battle to one
of the big hospitals or concentration bases
for wounded soldiers in this country may
have been gradual, but it takes so long to
get well that most of them grow tired and,
for the first time since they responded to
their country's call. complain.
Though most of the hospitals are not in
isolated localities, visiting hospitals is
usually too grewsome and melancholic
especially for young peoplc-and how the
soldier docs long for company of his own
age, especially feminine He is back in
America and he wants to talk, dance and
walk with American girls and be a ''regu
lar fellow" again
Down at Cape May there's just such
bunch of wounded soldiers, and here in
Philadelphia there's n number of girls who
have been trying to make easier for the
boys in L. $. A. General Hospital No. II
the job of getting better.
Down at Cape May there's a woman
tthcir angel" the wounded boys call herr
who, besides doing thousand and one other
things for the heroic boys, has been the
means by which the girls of Philadelphia
have been able to visit them and afford them
the restorative companionship of clean,
healthy American girlhood. She has also.
by chaperoning, by arranging trips to this
city and entertainment while here, afforded
the girls the chance to see the boys here
and give the boys an outing in this city.
AT the shore the SOLDIERS angel has
been the means of contact between the
wounded boys and the girls from Philadel-
phia by founding and maintaining "Appre-
citation Cottage 1t is here that she makes
her home and here she cntertains the
wounded soldiers and their fair visitors.
The angel of the wounded soldiers is
Mrs. Maibelle Lovegrove, formerly of Pitts
burghs but, until all the Wounded boys get
well and are discharged, of Cape May.
The girls are planning n big entertain
ment in the city next Tuesday, night for the
wounded soldiers at Cape May. They have
chartered railroad coach and will bring
the men here, give a play and dance for
their benefit at Moose Hall, Broad and Pop
lar streets pay their hotel expenses oyer
night and send them back to Cape May the
next day.
The affair will be public and the wounded
men who attend will not only benefit by an
evening ) entertainment, DuI Jne 1unu Wnlcn
the girls maintain for the purpose of en-
abling them to minister to the boys will be
replcnished considerably.
The girls have been rehearsing for weeks
on cabaret show, comprising talent almost
exclusively within their organization. They
have some talented entertainers and will
provide vaudeville program rvalng q
professional bill.
Following the show there will be dance
IN which every one present, including such
of the wounded soldiers as are not too
badly wounded, will participate
There will be twenty principals and spe-
cialty artists in the cabaret show and
chorus of thirty ytwo. Vocal specialties will
be given by the Misses Agnes Dermitt, Mar
garet A1allon, Eleanor Mallon. Marie Stef-
fen, Emily Steffcn. Bertha Craig, Matte
Jones, Raymond Raucnzahn and Marion
Cowles. Dancing numbers will be con
tributed by the Misses Katherine Rambo
and Ruth Murphy, dansueses; Edward
Miller and Thomas Riley. eccentric dane
ing Miss Jane Costello comcdenne. Plan
list, Miss Lavina Wagner.
. In the chorus will be the Misses Marie
Leiningcr, Evelyn Hollingsworth Gertrude
Bittel, Marie Gutmann, Peggy Joyce. Esther.
Ieller, Mac Christ. Louise O'Melia, Flor
ence Smith, Rose Dillon, Mary Mallon. Jane
Aiken, Ivy Place. Julia Baker. GLADYS
Bretherick, Margaret Carroll, Jennie Bowie.
Emma Rutherford, Regina Junod, Gertrude
Hoffman, Marie Healy, Dolly Page. Eva
HitchOn, Hannah Joyce, Celia Curley, Emma
Hevener and Margaret Mcnningen.