Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-15
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks Of Theatre Party for Miss Thomp.
son-,She Hears OF an Affair Given for Wounded
Soldiers by Miss Anna Le,ois-Other Matters

"A DEBUTANTE affair tonight will
"A be the theatre party and supper
later which Mrs. John White Hoff
man is giving for her niece, Marie
Louise Thompson, who, as you know, Ia
the daughter Of Mrs. Charles Trotter
Thompson, of ZIG Spruce street.
Thompson. Her father, the late
Charles Trotssr Thompson, died a lit.
tie moro than q year ago, 90 her mother
has not done any entertaining for her,
but various friends have given her par :
ties, and she Is having very good
time.
The ,1hompsons lived formerly at 220
West Rittenhouse street. Maria Louise,
or Marie Louise, as many call her, is
named for her mother, who was Miss
Maria Louise McCay.
Among the guests at the party to-
night will be Elizabeth Jeanes, Mil.
dred Carpenter, Mary Thayer, Anne
Ashton, Anita Strswbridse, Virginia
Carter and an equal number of men,
Of course. They win 30 later to the
Bellevue. .Stratford for supper. Mrs.
Hoffman was Miss Florence McCay,
Mrs. Thompson's sister.
uNhE TlAys hhu iioyofo WI" he'o
L their forty eighth club night tonight
IN the playrooms at 43 South Eight
eenth street, and me, m going. Some
how, as I have variously and upon oc-
cssion said, like said club and said
club night, and usually like said plays.
But cannot, Of course, state at this
moment that I am going to like to-
nights plays, not having seen them be-
fore, nor having read them; but / do
expect to like them, because they are
nearly always good. And Mra. Howard
Reber has tonight's In charge, and she
usually makes very, very good seiec-
tions. It's all SO chubby and charming,
and very interesting, to say the least.
DID you hear about the wonderful
~ party Miss Anna Lewis. Of 123
South Twenty second street, gave to
eighty. five wounded service men OF the
army and navy last week? She asked
about fifty other women to help her
sntertaiR the men, and arranged q
vaudeville performance ana a supper,
and the men had a perfectly wonder
ful time. Nearly all the men were those
who were recovering from wounds re.
ceived In action two years ago, and
some twenty five Of them were she'll
shocked patients from the hospital on
Grays Ferry road.
I think it's such splendid thing for
Miss Lewis to have done. Many OF US
do not realize that there Is any need
still to entertain our men. The war
was over so long age, now we have come come
70 think they are all we'll and working
again, but the hospitals have a diff
ferent story, and large quota OF men
who suffered over there. And how CRATE
full the sick ones are for these parties
and good times think it's very In
teYesting to hear about, don't you?
DID you know that the Bal Masque
- Is to be given In the Academy Of
Music this year? Yes. it's to be held
there on February 8, which Is the eve of
Lent or Shrove Tuesday, and the dny
on which that annual ball Ia held. How
that affair has grown DO you re:
member when Joe Norris and several
other men got up Shrove Tuesday
dance at the Roosevelt In Chestnut
street and had all sorts Of stunts. let
loose white mice and dropped confetti
and did all sorts Of odd suntsy
never would swear to the white
self, but two girls told mo they were
scurrying around under the chairs In
the supper room. Well, from that first
party, some ten years or more ago,
developed the annual Bal Masque,. in
vitations for which are sought from
ether cities as well as here. Balti-
moresns, ,Washingtonians. New York.
ers; in fact. men and women from all
the leading eastern cities, are invited.
and 1t Is one Of the most brilliant events
in Philadelphia's year. ,
This year it will be more beautiful
than ever witt the new foyer open and
the renovated opera house. The
Academy is a thing Of beauty these
days. It always was marvellous for
acoustic. properties. The Mormon tenn
pie leads In acoustic properties, In
Scala Opera House In Milan is second
on the list and the Academy of Music
10 third. And hear that Mr.. Sto-
kowski says the acoustics in the foyer
are as perfect as In the opera audi
torium itself. OF course. one docs not
care about acoustics for ball, but one
does for opera. How glad am will
rot have to 60 way uptown any more,
says Nancy, snobbishly.