Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-11

SIu1b reception at tne IHdTiotte Sushiiahs
Club was more than interesting yes
terday afternoon. It's.such a pretty little
clubhouse and the women managers are
all so charming and so interested In the
work. I quite like to go to the teas. The
affair Yesterday was given for Miss Alma
Tell, who has been playing here in Eyes
Of. Youth" for several months. She is
very attractive and was especially gra-
cious.
Mrs. James Large, Mrs. Horatio Gates
Lloyd, Mrs. Clinton Rogers Woodruff, Mrs.
Sydney Hutchinson and Mrs. Otis Skinner
are all intensely interested in the Cushman
tClub. You know it was started about ten
tor twelve years ago In n house down on
Tenth street, and as the work grew the
ky7 ana gers took the house at the corner of
Twelfth and Locust streets, and now they
have included 1902 Locust also and have
any number of roorhs for the young
Nactresses who stay here during the year.
The club was founded to give young
actresses a home where, f"- a moderate
board. they could get all The comforts and
have none of the unpleasantnesses that a
want of chaperonage sometimes gives a
young girl who is obliged to stay alone in
the smaller notes. = nuNnper VI pIoinl-
nent actresses and individual people fur
nished tie rooms, and they have the love-
lest cool papers and pretty curtains and
soft rugs! It's as pretty a place as I
nave ever seen.
IBID you know that Julia Williamson had
~ sailed for overseas Y. NJ. C. A. work
on the Carmania? She left New York last
"Wednesday. I understand she's to do
library work. and If any one knows any
thing about library work and storytelling.
it's Julia. She's q perfect wiz" as regards
telling stories, and -,as supervisor of that
very thing In the ! Philadelphia Public Ii
brary. Julia is the daughter of the Frank
VILLA msnns, OF 2Sn3 Spruce street, and
is a sister of Anna Williamson and OF
Marie Louise. who marric2 Coiket Wilson,
Jr., several years ago. J 90 not know of
any one who is better fitted for work of
this kind, and those boys 'ovcr there" are
golnG to herald her stories with cheers,
belle, Q me-.
Jru!a was president of the Pennsylvania
Association of Women Workers. made up
of a number of clubs for working girls and
women, for several years, and she did
great work then.
IBID you know the Musical Club will
- give another party for the benefit of
the children of J'gny-le.Gai, the French
village which the club has undertaken to
reconstruct. and the party will be given
on January % at a quarter after 8 o'clock
in the Bellevue-Stratford ballroom? It's
the regular dance night for the club, but
they have decided 20 give first the delight
full little operetta by the Children of the
clubs members. 1t is "a Clair de la
Lune." and it's the sweetest, daintiest little
French fairy tale. and the Riddles who
take part are too cunning and too dainty
for words. 1 would hate to miss that
party.
T HEAR that Catherine Macdonald, who
L has been spending some time at the
Bellevue and is a great friend Of Marian
Dougherty and Phyllis Yarrow Mrs. Kem-
BILE Yarrow. you know has left for Cali
fornia. where she will spend three months.
Miss Macdonald is quite we'll known in
the movies and has been in some awfully
attractive plays with Charles Ray. She's
quite stunning and a. very good actress.
and she does wear good-looking clothes,
and l think that counts for so much in
the movies, don't you? Some of them 1ciH
wear short sleeves in the afternoon, tri-
colored shoes and befeathered hats! Miss
Macdonald has been t~rotting around with
Marian and Phyllis while here, and Marian
say Y Catherine likes this part of the
coui.try quite we'll"
TTOBIE is three years old and his baby
IL sister is just about six months. He's
crazy about the baby" consequently when
he discovered that there was another one
in the hcme Of the colored chauffeur he
went Immediately to see for himself II
this one was as perfect as his own baby.
He was much impressed. When he came
home he took a long. critical survey Of the
blink and white bunch of dimples and tenn
tperament that lay at ease in the midst of
ynne linen and woolly blankets. Mother"
ne asked solemnly, did the same sork
that brought her bring that other little
baby?" Mother assured him just as
gravely thai ii had. 'Oh, are you sure,
mother" he exclaimed. Il think YOU must
be mistaken. because I'm sure it was a
biackbird!" NANCY WiNNE.