Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-31

TODAY we start the last week before
i Lent: the last week Of pretty
well kept mp gayety too, don't you
think? For though there have been
fewer debutantes than last year, the
entertaining has been greater than in
a number of years. And the balls and
dances have been such pretty affairs
Take the Cadwaloders' dance for
Jess;e Da Costa last week. have
seldom seen the Ritz ballroom as pretty
ss il was. 1t was copy of an Italian
Garden. and q small pergola was ar
ssonged at the left Of the stage with
iotticed sides covered with pink ram
Ming roses and trailing smilax, willie
bark boxes filed with begonia and roses
were placed about 1t.
In the center Of the stage were huge
white marble vases filled with Gala
lilies. and cybodium ferns and small
hoy trees were banked at the back OF
the stage. Pink. rosebuds on strands
of smilax hung in festoons about the
Uoom and over the entrances. 1t really
was lovely and the rotunda where we
we're received was decorated with the
bcgonias and ferns.
UNHIS week will see the second AS
J. sembly of the season on Friday
,;ubt md then next Tuesday there VIII
he the famous bal masque at the hcau-
o,,r after which we should turn TO
tnDion doings, but bless you we won l.
bennIa don't deny themselves these
days. they lust set about thinking what
con they do next. only In less openly
syciting way. And so Lent IL otteh
siven over to smaller parties put
Sar,ies just the same.
AND while talking of affairs in l''t'
a really am very interested in the
musical comedy, "Why NotF' when n
number Of girls and men are gettlhs up
Tor the benefit of the University oe'-
Element House. ,,;.,,, for n
r.hn,o week nj the Little Theatre, com
nancinp February %. Jacqueiine
r,oen Is prominent in the cast. ana 81 she
hos written the book and lyrics. She
,iovs opposite Jack Whiting. uyten-
Soic Gamer will be French governess
"nJ Dick Chew il to be an Engiish :
man while Marina Wister is to be d
social secretary. ,, ,,d
One scene is laid at Broad and
Chestnut streets, and Uytcndale, tne
French governess, will be actually
- "picked up" whatever that may oe,
= by A strange young man, ana they
4 sing song. which in some way Vi
other brings out the fact thaI tney
I,ko each others appearance and want
to sneak ia each other. and the next
refrain of the song is, why NOT :
Tho girls who are to take part IN
rho opening scene. laid in the Kitten
house Square annual flower market
and who will be dressed in the trocks
tber wore Mt the flower market lns'
snrinp are Virginia Earle. Sydney
Riddlc Mariory Gibbon. Jane Hep
bnrn, Dorothy Ely, Kitty knight
Elizabeth Ross, Julia Baker. Carohne
Viyon. Betsy Davis. BETTY Elliott
Frances Leach. Rachel Price, Elizabeth
Taylor and Maisic Stewart.
NIAIsIE STEWART, by the way
1N Is certainly an attractive debu
tante. She has an awfully pretty re
ton coat trimmed with fur collar an,
cuffs. and a small brown turban whlcl
is very becoming. Maisic has won
derful figure, and wears her clothes 81
well, Her sister, Susie. Is wearing {
very good looking black seal coat this
winter and a largo brown hat, trimmed
with ostrich feathers.
T WAS so sorry yesterday to hear o.
the death in San Juan. Porto Rico
IN January 81, of Maury Polk Gregg
And am sure the news will come as
great shock to his many friends in thi
city. Maury was the son of the lat
Mr.. George y. Gregg. of the PenSylyn
MIA Railroad. His mother was Mis-
Laura Polk, sister Of the late Mrs
Philip Lpidy, Of this city. Maury, wh
was only twenty eight years of age
was member of the staff of the Ameri
can Bureau of Shipping, and was sen
as its representative to establish an
take charge of offices at San Juan an
the Virgin Islands.
During the war he served the Ameri
can Bureau as inspector of the marin
boiler works on the Pacific coast. ii
was a graduate in naval architecture O
3 the Franklin Institute here.
He was taken i'll in San Juan abou
ten days ago. and on Wednesday n
family received cable of his severe Ill
ness (doublc pneumonia | hear 1t was,
and the following day came word OF N
DEATH lie is survived by his mothe
and sister. Miss Ladson Hall, who hv
at AIS South Broad street. =,
Maury had many friends in this Ht
who will grievc sincerely at the earl