Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-01-08
Mrs. Gertrude Horne, OF
6O3 ". 32d Street, VIII
Share Hrundred Dollars
With Her Two Children,
She Declares
Vas Made by a Jury
of Embryo Light Opera
Stars From Philadelphia
Electric amateur Organi-
cation

The winner Of the limpin' lin m'rict
prize announced today was chosen by a
Jury Of ten girls from the cast and
light opera organization, made up of
employees in the Offices at Tenth and
Chestnut streets. A photograph OF the
Jury will be found on the back page.
The winner to he announced Monday
| is being chosen by jury OF ten niirseS
in the Samaritan Hospital, Broad and
| Ontario streets.
You fans all ought to get tickets some
way or othcr'to an affair that's coming
off at tho Manufacturers Club on
February /. Why? Well. just turn
to the back page and take a slant Mt the
Jury that awarded today's limpn
lin rick prizes.
Sec om? Eh?
These girls are all in the cast and
chorus Of light opera that VIII be
given at the club that night by a COM
many composed of the employees of the
Philadelphia Electric Co.. Tenth and
| Chestnut streets. The jury comes from
what they call the first chorus.
| They tell us the second chorus is just
the same.
All we can say is we're going to hit
out for a Job in the big building where
Joe Mccall works if they run that way
through all the departments. We'd
like to be in the employment office or
the personnel department or a mes
senger boy or sump'in. Anything just
| to be there.
The show they re going to appear in
\ na,Hlnu'' and IL
written by Joseph B. Mccall, Jr., and
Homer Berry. son Of the collector of
the port 1t will be presented in con-
nection with the main section meeting
of the National Electric Light Associa-
tion.
We learned all these things while We
were talking with the girls you see in
the picture and they told us about the
show and things and we photographed
| them and then, just as we were gong.
we remembered that we had limpin
| lin rick to show EN-. Clean forgot
about it till the last moment.
SO we passed around the slips con-
tanning the ten bcst-it gave us an eX-
cuSc to stay longer, y 'sec-and the girls
looked 'em over and then voted. The
winner they chose is:
Mrs. Gertrude f. Horne. 603 North
Thirty second street, West Philadel-
phia.
Usually we print. after the name
Of the winner. his or her business. but
Mrs. Horne is too busy, just being a
| housckeeper and taking care Of her two
children to have any other business.
The verse, as she completed it, follows:
Limerick No. 1S ......-.
No,c rc como TO the pear T1enty- on c
With coal fifteen dollars a ton;
With the heather much colder
And the coal bnrOnS bOIder
Be grateful If you haven't bin done.
There were lot OF really clever lines
to this lin rick and the jury had a
hard time agreeing on a winner. The
other nine we submitted to them were :
We are not well TO do. but well done.
James $. Walsh, 1921 Pennsylvania
avenue, Wilmington.
It's the season to saw wood; see,
Son?-J. A. Hammond, Income Tax
Dept, Hog Island.
Fuel few will get it and buy by
(bye bye) the tOn.-John r. Sieycs,
l2O Fitzwater street.
Fuel object to cOaIed homes-or this
pun.-Mrs. X. Beatty, 1@ Ridgway
avenue, FolCrOft.
They'd B. T. L. (beat YOU out OF
the sun.-George MCCauSIand, 6l3J
Christian street.
They'll need just mask or "a gun
John Il. Dwyer, S1l North Forty third
street.
They'll charge extra for heat from
street, Camden.
WHY: they'll soon tax the heat from
the sun.-NIrs. Lewis A. Darling. G310
North Twenty first street. Germantown
We've no pick but to shovel out mon.
Mrs. William +. MoyCr, 229 East
Fornancc street, Norristown.
The Jury of embryo light opera stars
included two members of the cast of
"NIixcd Doubles" and eight members
of thc first chorus. Miss Lukpns and
Miss Kenny are the two principals.
The full jury was.
street first aid department.
Geraldine NJ. Kenny, 5Gll Boynton
street supply department.
lydia f. StrlIth. 3422 North Eight
eenth street service maintenance de =
Eta NJ. Lukcns. 53OG North Water
street appliance repairs.
Mary l.. MI MIo'1s"a, %S"ar.r,ont walnut
street 'Gihm'IriIh' n'a. nao ''Tc, Wnnti, r,,.
Agnes Il. Her'tuse, oiI ;,, IoIln lnlrty
Beatrice Wagner, 266 South Fifty
seventh street; controllers department
Irma NJ. Gillette l'I- N"ith sixty
first street; superintendent OF buildings
department. oo
Agnes +. Bolton, 0S22 Springfield
avenue; commercial department.
Nory 4 O'Hara, lTO4 West Erie