Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-09
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Sees Bevy of Attractive C~ls-7seco"d
Tea Today for Miss Helena Mitchell-Many to
attend Recital Tonight-Other Bits

SAW Emmie Norris on the street
the other day. She certainly Is an
attractive girl, just youth personified,
and she looked awfully well in one OF
those tan sports coats and sports hat
Of French blue duvetyne. She is pro-
nounced blonde, and looks very cute.
Emmie will not make her debut for
several years yet, though she is quite
big for her age, and goes about great
deal in fact, is one of the most popu- :
lar girls in the school set in Chestnut
Hill. She is. you know, the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Norris.
nOESN'T Nancy Cope look awfully
~ well since her return from Europe
Really, she looks wonderful, and has
many Partisan costumes. | saw her the
other day, and she looked quite dash
ing. She was wearing a sports coat OF
brown English tweed and brown
wooden hat to match. and wore choker
of skunk fur. She and Catharine
Wharton Morris and the Wister girls
and Hope Wilson are very chummy'
and go about together quite bit. Oh,
yes Catharinc and Hope we're botn
with her the other day. 1 saw them az
the Bellevue first, and later ut tne
movies.
Hope Is a dandy girl and awful!y
popular She looked very attractive IN
4 suit of maroon duvetyne. trimmed
with japanese mink and semiturDan
Of the same material, which was also
trimmed with fur.
Catharine Morris Is quite bit OF an
artist, you know, In more ways Wv =,
one. Yes, she paints exceptionally Weil, wei
and dances, and is very accomplisne"
along musical lines. She Is jolly, too'
and dandy with crowd.
yTHE second tea of the two given os
i the Langdon Elwyn Mitchells TO ~ II. !.
troduce Helena Mitchell VIII De ,nnS S
afternoon. , The Mitchclls live at ~ ~
pe Lancey, place. you know S0;Ison MsS;
Mitchell has asked Mrs; Nel!Sea ESea
Fearing, Mrs. Henry G. Boyer. MIS- MISS
William Platt. Mrs. James Drinker,
Mrs. Dick Tilghman, Eusenia Cassa.di ud
and Frances X. Wister to receive. anu
the debutantes who will be with Helena
are Augusta Harrison, ElizaDeth
Jeanes, Ruth Packard, Mary sitter
Mary Howland and Sarah Barr'nser'
NGUsIC-LOvERs will turn out in
Ixl force this evening at the Metro
politan to hear Nine. Louisa TetraHllhl'
who will be here just for one evening"
II will take us back to the old Hammgr
stein days, won't 1t. when IetrszII.n'
sang there for several seasonsT Mrs.
John King Van Rensselaer,. who you
remember lived at Seventh and Locust
streets for some years and used to nolu
those delightful salons, gave reception
In Tetrazzini's honor in New YORK the
other day inviting the Rufus hing
Chapter Of the Daughters Of the Ameri-
can Revolution to meet her.
The Italian prima donna, Mrs; van
Rensselaer, tod me, was so dengnteu
with that society. she decided to form
similar one in Italy to be known as tne
Daughters of the italian Revolution.
She is, you see, the daughter OF a
Florentine patriot who fought for the
freedom of italy under Garibaldi: queen
Elena il to be asked to be the hrst
honorary president.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, has started up
4 new society in New York. by the
way. 1t is called Patriot New
Workers." and the purpose Is to teach
Americanisrs to newcomers 10 this
country and also to stir up interest IN
America among Americans. l heard
that Nine. Tetrazzini is to meet Mrs;
George Minor, who Is president general
OF the Daughters of the American
Revolution. next week in Washington,
and Mrs. Minor has promised to give
her COPIES Of constitutions and bylaws
of the American society.
I always remember the pleasant
affairs Mrs. Van Rensselaer, used 20
have here. She went back to New York
TO live about six years ago, but mas
visited here ever since. Her grand
daughter, Sylvia Van ensselaer, came
Snd snt IN later ter" in p't the s' Jason Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, brought her over. here to
meet her Philadelphia friends. If l
remember correctly she gave tea for
her at the Aldine. Mrs. Van Rem
sselaer still comes over to Philadelphia
for several weeks each year.
uAVE you ever seen the du Pont
IL twins? mean Elise du Points
sisters? They are just four, and are
the cutest little tots you ever saw. One
Is a blonde and the other brunette.
Little blondy has all the vivacitv OF
the family, while the little brunette
looks very much like Elise and has
quite the same grave manner.
A friend Of Elise's happened to be
at their home the other evening when
u was time 1or tnem 10 go 10 peu' 80
when their nurse called them to go they
were Just as obedicnt as clock work
and went the rounds of kissing the
members of the family goodnight.
Having never seen them before this girl
felt she was going to be deprived of
the "good night kiss but to her
surprise, and before she knew what was
happening. the sunshine blondy i'm
pulsively grabbed her hand and said :
''I doin' to tiss YOU. too" and gnve
her big kiss, while the other little tot
followed suit, then they ran off to bed
Ike a pair OF little che"ubs.