Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-07-10
.TLST GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy Wynne Tells Of Miss Katharine MacKay's We'd
ding Date-She Speaks of Philadelphians at
Narragansett Pier-Ne,Vport Doings

,IERE We are in the second week Of
II Iulv md the parties In this par
!, -. country are about over. Nearly
r 80 onc who is going North or to the
49, ,...sv Coast for, the season will start
a.. ~. veek or next, and most of the
- .,,s will be given over to getting
ready. u,o,. N.. y,
..-s out of town which are interesting,
.I mess we'll manage to worry along.
=. oourse. we are nll interested in
T.,harine Macknv, Mr.. Clarence
Mscksy's daughter. and her. engage.
..r, 10 Kenneth O'Bricn. They are
- he married on September q. you
s,ow ot st. Mary's Church. in RoslSn.
II Katharine came on here last
D,,,er - for the dance which the Wilmer
u,adles gave in her honor and for their
,.n.bter. Virginia Gordon, and
.s,rS eIrl, a Baltimorean (I can't just
..msmbsr her name). Kenneth
n'prien Is Judge Morgan UBrien''
" And he and Katharine are both
Wv accidentally, I hear that Ken's sister
u,ude. who married Pierce Butler,
.ho wos wounded in the war and died
Ann the effects, is now engaged to
n.rold Dempsey. The engagement was
announced in New York on Saturday
w.ude O'BrIcn is awfully good
,..tinp =. in fact, all those O'Bricn girls
-. extremely attractive. Gerald
n.mpsey is a Bostonian and lives OIL
commonwealth avenue. Both the
n,pr,ens and Dempseys spend most OF
n. summer at Narrngansett Pier.
THE Pier, by the way, Is filling up
\ l rapidly, and a great many l'hila
A.nhians are there as usual. Mrs.
IIi.,snder Brown has opened her villa,
snS her sister, Kitty Penn Smith. has
ss.n Z staying with her for some weeks.
~. nick Norrises and their daughter
Wsrv have been there about a week
srd The John Norrises and Lisa are
.i.o Mt their cottage. Mrs. Thomas
i.S,,es. the two Mrs. Norris sis
Us. will spend the summer at
Ns,rasansett, too. Her two daugh
Tara Mrs. Albert and Mrs. Harold
Hossnaarten, who were Mary and
. Amanda Jeffries, respectively, left d
counle of weeks ago for Europe. taking
% their sons Albert and Harold Will
thsm. And Mrs. Pearson Pearce, who
Sas Florence Jeffries. will join hez
mother in Narragansett some time dur
ing the summer. -,
Many other Philadelphians who will
spepd a month or so at the Pier are
IKE Jack Fells, John Converses and
''f!1d EmIly TIaafnIi Randolph Stevenson and her
husband, Phil Stevenson, who live most
Of the time in New York, Will 20 up
70 visit Emily's father, Mr.. Phil Ran.
iolph. Emily is a sister Of Mrs. Fell
and Of Hannah Randolph Hudson, who,
YOU recember, married IN EnShshman
some three years ago.
ACROSS the bay from Narragansett
: n the season in Newport may be said
10 have well begun. The annual Casino
tennis tournament Is scheduled for next
week, with Mr.. Craig Biddle at the
head Of the committee. And there is
4 great deal of entertaining ut the
villas. The Alexander Hamilton Rices
gave luncheon yesterday nj
Miramar, which you remember Mrs
Rice built when she was Mrs. George
Widener. There were two hundred
guests.
MOTHER was sewing In the room
1N next to the nursery when Jack and
Marguerite were playing one rainy
afternoon, They were playing
House." and Jack was the father and
Marguerite the mother Of elsie
Marguerite's very bestest doll. During
the afternoon "Elsie" wanted to go ou,
70 play, and Mamma Marguerite was
heard to say: mo, my dear child, you
are al dressed for the party; yor
would get your frock sOiled." Ant
then Papa Jack spoke up and remarked
That's silly! Let her Co." And q
conyulsed mother heard her daughter
nply: Now, John, there you art
interfering. How can l ever disci.
plane this child IL You always change
" commanderies.