Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-15
! lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Tells Of the Stokes-Brooke Wedding-She
anticipates a WonderfM Pageant at Memorial Hall

THAT was such pretty wedding o.
Mary Brooke and Lowber Stokes yes
..,Jsy, / have always thought Mary
..ss attractive. but she was perfectly
,.Jant in her exquisite satin gown and
noint lace veil. IL there is a trying
wodding veil to wear 1t is lace one,
.rJ when one is worn successfully II
aiwoys seems to me safe to say that
tbs wearer thereof is real beauty.
never saw so many Stokes men in
NV life. Everywhere you turned you
s.w n Stokes. John and Tom and stand .
| isv and Dickie. And they all looked
~ much alike. It was dandy having all
those brothers as ushers. And wasn't
4 nice TO see Frances Stokes Clark
i,bousbt she looked stunning. She was
wearing brown silk frock and her
h.own hat was trimmed with long
o.trich feather Of light shade of
sherry red, which was most becoming.
IIsr little daughter was with her and
mss CARRYING two tiny old fashioned
bououets in her small hands. I heard
Wrs clark explaining that one had been
attended for Billie Stokes, but he, Bill,
had srurned it.. -.
Rllie was with his mother. Mrs.
s,andley Stokes--Ruth Coke that was.
! thought that she was particularly be-
romingly dressed In a lowered gcorgette
crane, the colors predominating in the
s dyess being blue. brown and yellow.
Wsr hat was a rather large lacy one.
n seemed to me that every one was
,hsre Mr.. and Mrs. Charlemagne
Towor I saw at the church and later
Al the house. Mrs. Tower looked very
we'll in dark blue suit and large velvet
hat with many ostrich feathers. Mrs.
Henry Brinton Coke wore a feather
h,t too. Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Bid
dle were there and Mrs, Bertiam lip
nincott and Mrs. William Paul O'Neill
werr together. OF course. nearly every
member Of the Welsh family turned out
also, You know the Stokes and Welshes
Arc all inter. related. and Welsh and
Jack Strawbridge and the Caryl Roberts
and everybody.
The reception was not 80 enormous,
Init at all such affairs every one ar
rlyes at once and that makes-it crush,
even In n large house Ike the Brookes'.
AREN'T you interested in the pageant
a ont at Memorial Hall2 IT'S to open
on Monday night and last for three
more evenings and Saturday afternoon.
And all the artists are to take part
Themselves or plan groups and dances.
/ hear that Mrs. Eli Kirk Price and
several others of the women interested
had with their own hands dyed the gar
ments to be worn in most of the groups,
and the coors they have gotten from
their experiments are marvellous in
beauty.
THE affair is given to celebrate the
L opening Of the beautiful Hindu
temple portico at the Pennsylvania Mu-
scum, Memorial Hall. in the Pank.
You know the temple has been given
to the museum by the family OF Ade-
line Pepper Gibson. who died while
working in France in the late war.
There are to be ten groups in cast
Of 1S0 people and various persons are
chairmcn Of each group. Members of
the Philadelphia School of Design will
be the farmers and country people with
Miss Natalie Rowland as their chair
man; Sophie Norris will have charge of
the group Of cloth merchants; while
Mrs. Charles '. Mclean will be at the
head Of the sellers Of drinks; Mrs.
Jab Brnton will have the buyers: Ned
Warrick and Charles Scott will be at
the head Of the group of dancers:
fakrs. musicians, ETC., all members of
the School of Industrial Art.
Miss Margaret Montgomery will have
charge of the kings attendants; the T.
Square Club will be the priests:
maidpns and matrons will be under the
direction Of Miss Joline and Mrs. Otis
skinner; the craftsman groups will be
made up of members of the Academy Of
the Fine Arts; while the visitors and
other attendants of the king will be un-
der the direction Of Thornton Oakley
and Miss Peters.
Altogether | expect most wonderful
performance. And every one I have met
seems TO intend to go, so we'd better 20
early, but avoid the crowd--well that
cant be did
MY SMALL friend Anne Scott has a
44 new spring hat Yes. she has, and
sne is just as proud of it! I saw her
walking into Rittenhouse Square the
cther day holding on to her mothers
nand' 1t $ big hat too! It's brown
straw and it has wide brim and brown
toGon around the crown with two long
ends hanging down the back and it's
most becoming to that small curly
headed person.
,Uh, Anne" called one of the other
MaalHs, you got new hat. haven't
!on; And Anne nodded her head and
SAID 'uh huh NANCY WYSSE.