Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-14
JUST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tells of First Meeting of Junior Cotlon
This EUenng-Dinner for Women's ,Overseas
Legion-Penn Charter Boys in Annual Plav

u,oNIGHT will see the first meeting
i of'tbe Junior Cotillon in the Belle
30. stratford for this season. These
sonces we're started after the old Mon
Soy Evening Dancing Glasses had
..assed to exist with Mrs. Frederick
Noson's retirement into mourning at
tbe death of her husband. They are not
S continuation of the old Monday Eve
n,nqs in any sense Of the word.
There were six meetings of the Mon
a,y Evening, the first usually in the
tbird week in December and the last
tbs Monday before Lent, Then no
Ssbutante but those eligible for the As
se,nbly was ever asked to join the
Monday Evening Dancing Glasses,
while there is no such restriction for
,he Junior Dances. The Junior Dances
sro three in number and the meetings
g,il he held tonight, on January II and
Ecbruary Is. They will be dinner
DANCES, starting promptly at S:15, and
will be held in the Clover Room in
stead of the Rose Gardens.
The Junior Dances have been very
delightful affairs since they were started
some six or seven years ago, and they
srow In popularity each year. The
gotronesses, some of whom receive at
Zach meeting, are Mrs. Henry Brinton
Cove. Mrs. George Dallas Dixon. Mrs
Robert Kelso Cassatt, Mrs. Daniel l..
Hutcbinson, Jr., Mrs. Robert l.. Mont
comery, Mrs. Charlton Henry, Mrs.
Robert II. Large, Mrs. Edward L.
stotesbury and Mrs. A. j. Drexel
Biddle.
Mrs. Montgomery will not act in the
capacity Of chapcrone this year, as she
is spending the winter in Rome with
her husband and family. Mrs. George
Dallas Dixon will entertain for Mar
jorie Large and there will be several
other affairs.
THE Women's Overseas Legion had n
/ most interesting dinner last evening
IN the North Gardens of the Bellevue
stratford. Mrs. Robert G. Mead. who
only recently has returned from several
months stay in Poland. talked most
interestingly, and Mr.. Edward Box,
who was guest of honor, also made
q short address.
Mrs. Oswald Chew presided at the
meeting. She Is the president of the
Philadelphia Legion. In fact, Phila-
delphia was one Of the first cities to
start a Women's Overseas Legion and
the national meeting of the various
other organizations from other cities
was held here last year. The Overseas
Legion includes nurses, signal corps
women, Red Cross, i. w. G.. A, y.
NJ. G. A., G. A. Il. D., National Cath
olic War Council, Jewish Welfare
Board, Friends reconstruction units
and various others who went abroad
and worked among the soldiers and
refugees during the war and since the
armistice.
THE Penn Charter School play is the
i event of the week in the school set.
1t is to be held on Friday night in the
ballroom of the Bellevue STAFFORD. 1t is
given by the Penn Charter Literary
Society "a Tailor Made Man." which
was played here several years ago by
Grant Mitchell, will be given this year.
The bows have great deal of talent and
are very funny in their impcrSonati1n
Of the girls. do like to see boys idea
of how girl should act and does act.
It's a shame to tease them, but they do
get so sell conscious ana uncOmforta-
bic. Guy Mann is to have the title
role, and the other members of the cast
will be Fred Schanche, Alden Strong.
Thomas Frame, Jr.. Sherman Cooke,
Erskine Bains, Dean JOY, William
Armstrong, AtnertOn W lllcOckS. l"r-
rance Rugh, Jr., Richard Reeves,
James Gage, Henry Jones, Charles Ell
liott, William Budd, DanIrl Merritt,
Frederick Griffin, Jr.
Among the patroncsscs are Mrs. AL
fred Alien, Mrs. Norris Bnrratt, Mrs.
Clarence Bartlett, Mrs. Samuel Bis
pham, Mrs. David Chew, Mrs. Philip
Collins, Mrs. Isaac Davis, Mrs. Myers
Filter, Mrs. Herbert Frazier, Mrs. Ar
thur Gerhard. Mrs. John Gibbon, Mrs.
Norman Grey, Mrs. j. Banckcr Crib
bel Mrs. Arthur Hacker, Mrs. Cas-
par WiStur Hacker, Mrs. Stevens
Heckscher, Mrs. Walter Janncy,- Mrs.
William Gray Knowles, Mrs. Horace
jerks, Mrs. John Kennedy, Mrs.
Thomas Leaning, Mrs. Robert lie
COnte, Mrs. Ralph Dcrr, Mrs. John T.
Lewis, Jr., Mrs. Bertram Lippincott,
Mrs. George II. Lorimer. Mrs. W. Paul
O'Neill, Mrs. Benjamin 4. Reath, Mrs.
John Sinnott, Mrs. Clinton Strong,
Mrs. Andrew Wheeler, Mrs. Edward
b. Smith, Mrs. Alfred Stengel, Mrs.
Charles Randolph Wood and about fifty
others. NANCY WYNNE.