Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-04-21

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Two interesting engagements have
;rst been announced. Viola Homer
!. .rsssed to George Knox McIlwain,
-. ~ Mrs. George X. ,McIlwain, Of
M ~. city, for one. Viola, you know,
!. % -. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs, Henry
T.msr. and has been living for the last
- Years with her aunt, Miss Con-
'.sres I r. Beale, Of 254 South Twenty
a., street. She came out several years
80 M and Is very sweet and attractive.
~ ~. Asnce went to Princeton, and
.n.,vard took an electrical engineer.
-. - course at Pennsylvania. Ho is a
,..mber ~ Of Delta Phi Fraternity or the
A., Elmo Club.
- rhe second engagement 10 that Of
u.rrist King, daughter Of Mr.. and
M, Harry King, Of Cleveland, and
mar w. Baird, Jr.. son Of Mr..
.oS Mrs. Edgar Wright Baird, Of Chest
.rt Hill. I hear that they met in
savannah last winter, when he was
here on business and she was visiting
,.latives in that city. Every one says
that she is most charming. She came
ant A few years ago in Cleveland, and
IA, been active in the Junior League
there, She is going to spend this week
md with the Bairds, and will 60 to
yireinia Heckscher's and Barclay Nc.
r,dden's wedding on Saturday.
Teddy is the brother Of Gainor Baird,
vbo married Joe Minott and is living
IN Portland, Oregon, and of Marian
Rs,rd, who married Jared Ingersoll.
Marian % has little daughter who is
%st ;a.t three weeks old, and Gainor's son
q three months old now. 49,.
THERE will be meeting Of Mrs.
/ Wurts' Dancing Class tonight at the
Bellevue. The cotillon will be led by
Leicester Lewis, assisted by Edmund
Berkeley Taylor, Richard Norris, viii.
liam Hacker, Richard Leiper, Osborn
Cresson and Richard Fielding. Among
those who will entertain before the class
viii be Colonel and Mrs. John Muckle,
who will give dinner in honor OF Ce-
leste Heckscher. For the debutantes
there will be the Roddy Pages dance at
the Ritz for their niece, Banning Grange.
There will be a great many dinners be-
fore the dance. Mr.. and Mrs. William
Rodman Ellison will entertain for their
niece, Kitty Porter. and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Drayton Grange will give q
dinner for Eleanor Dunning; Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Glendinning will give u
Mask and Wig party for Isabel Frazer.
Their daughter Ellen, you know, mar.
ried Isabel's brother Percy.
T SUPPOSE by now every one has
! seen the Mask and Wig, and the gay
debutantes have seen 1t virtually every
night. It's fine show. don't you think?
The costumes and dancing are simply
wonderful. Bobbie Downs made a most
dashing Douglas Fairbanks as D'Ar-
taman in "The Three Musketeers,"
with his flowing curls and all the rest Of
Il. He danced in speciality chorus, too,
and so did Jimmie Ferguson. Wasn't Pc
trola, the funny maid. marvellous? She
was none other than Harry Curtis, they
tell me, the brother of Margaret Cur
us, who married Roy Bookmycr, and
Alma Curtis, who Is Mrs. George A.
Huhn, Sd. He certainly was funny.
Almost the best thing in the show was
the toy soldier dance. I thought.
The performances seem to get more
elaborate every year; they have always
been 50 popular ever since the very first
show, "Lurline," which was given In
1888. Mr.. Frederick Meigs was the
heroine and Il quote from the program
Of that performance) "a sweet young
SIREN" DR.. Charles Frazier was an.
other bcauteous female character,
Lady Una," and (again quote from
the program) he was "shy and timid"
damsel. The late Mr.. Clayton McMi.
chael was the hero and some of the
chorus. though they didn't call them
that then, were Mr.. James Starr, Lo-
gan's father; Mr.. Frederick Nelson,
NJ: Hartley Merrlck, Mr.. Churchill
Williams and many others.
2, NANCY WINNIE