Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17
lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tqlks of the Cannon-Denckla Wedding
Today-She Tells of Plans for the Devon
ls.s ...i .iE, Horse Sho,u ....r.

-i,h our New York Philadelphia
,,"noos tomorrow and Monday--that
al''aitb ,ritb the guests getting here. Of
il, .,rse Tho bridegroom OF today could
cou' motor to get here, and probably
uss and The bridegroom OF Monday is
GU, o,un,,odv % In New York. and had his
aasbers' a.iu' dinner on Thursday night, so
tbey'll be there.
The weddings to which ! am referring
..a Pauline Denckla's to Le Grand
rannon II do so want to say Can
.on " don't YOUR That will take place
;h,s yS' afternoon at the Church OF the Holy
Tnr;,ity, n%T H Nineteenth and Walnut streets,
and the other wedding is that Of Roddy
Tower, son Of the Charlemagne Towers,
n this city, and Flora whitney, daugh.
Ter Of the Harry Payne Whitneys, OF
New York. which marriage VIII take
nlace on Monday Mt st. bartholomew
fhurch, In New York.
There will be great many New
yorkers here today for the Denckla
wsdding. lie Grand is the son Of Mrs.
Tbsodore Freylingheysen. His father,
,rho was II. lie Grand Cannon, died
so,ne wears ago, and his mother married
Mr i'reylingheysen some years later.
pauline. with her Philadelphia back
aro,,nd of old and leading families, will
Se an acquisition to New York, III say.
Tor mother was one of the five beautiful
Tyson girls. whose mother In turn was
Miss Stuart, a sister OF the late Mrs.
Stuart Patterson. Mrs. Dcnckla's eld-
est sister married Mr.. Percy Drayton.
Another sister Is the widow of Mr..
brentwood Smith. The Rev. Stuart
Tyson is an uncle Of Pauline's.
TIAyE you heard about the pageant
II that Mrs. Otis Skinner is getting
81, IN connection with the Devon Horse
show and Country Fair on Monday eve.
Inc MAY 81. which this year will be
Decoration Day? THE date Is always
NAV 30. YOU remember, but as IL falls on
Sunday this ycar the holiday will be
Nav 81 Mrs. Skinner has such artis-
tic sonse TINT anything she undertakes
IL always successful, find. You reinem-
her she planned the pageant they had at
tbe Indoor Show Mt the First City Troop
Armory some years ago. That was a
beautiful thing.
Mrs. Archibald Barklie Is home from
the West now. and Ia hard at work with
all her plans for the show, because you
know it is only five weeks off now. and
there will be the Indoor Show first and
the Pony Show out ut Mrs, Clothicr's.
THERE is one thing really want
L to do out Mt the Devon show, and
that is vote for the next President.
You see they are going to have straw
vote. and you can choose your favorite
candidate for President. The real
picking of candidate will be going on
then. and so 1t will be uppermost in our
minds. And since it seems positive the
.,,,1 80 hA, ot
least for the next election. we might as
well have a try at it and see how many
different ones we will picf on that day.
1t will differ from other elections, too,
In that no one will be able to sell his
vote, but every one will have to buy
one. and what Is more pay ten whole
cents for it. That's some idea, ism t it ?
7 SUPPOSE I am clothes crazy these
1 days, but I keep looking at the
things people have on, and in at store
windows. and somehow this time OF
year ! certainly do keep my attention
turned to clothes. / saw the Countess
George Ginoux de Fermon on Chestnut
street the other day in a smart looking
toQue Of black trimmed with an out.
standing feather fancy. She wore Q
long fur coat over silk frock. ,
She is staying With her aunt, Mrs
Travis Cochran, at her Twenty second
street home for several months. The
late Mr.. Travis Cochran was O
brother of the countess's father, the
late Mr.. George Cochran, who diet
shortly after his daughter was married
to the French count.
ND talking of clothes, have YOU
n seen the new capes that are beine
worn this spring? Mariana O'Neil
had one at the Stokes Brooke weddn,
on Wednesday. Hers was of faun
colored cloth. There is a bias piec
edged with a thick corded seam abou
the neck and which buttons over tn
breast. and then a wide full piece O
cloth edged with stole collar set on q
straight piece. fits over that an,
wraps about the figure. 1t sounds com
plicated but is really very simple an,
very good looking. Mrs. O'Neill's ha
was big droopy one Of figured geor
gette crepe edged with a fold of dar
blue.
THEY were having a card party, an,
one Of the women who was to 70 t
the time set to say that her nurse ha
simply could not leave Tommy at HON
by himself For be 1t known, sal
Tommy is only three years Of age.
Well, the hostess told her she ''jus
had to come" and to bring Tomm
along with her. She did. and Tomm
was an angel all afternoon. Sat ON til
floor and played with his blocks an
never interrupted nor interfered in an
way. After the cards there was tel
and Tommy was given his pink IL
cream before any one, because he ha
been so good.
When time came to 60 home, viii
MS mother was upstairs putting on he
CLOAK, the small man advanced to Ii
hostess and said, MRS. t, I had
bootiful time -
Then he made a flying dash for IL
opening in the hanisters and lookir
up to where he thought his mother mu
,ps;, he called in stentorian tone
"Muver, said 1t to her."
NANCY wYNNE.