Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-24
! lust GOSSIP ABOUT PEOPLE
Nancy lynne Talks of the Assembly to Be Held Tonight
in the BelleUue-Strattord- Carnival
4 to Be Held in March

GWEN though 1t is late season. It
II does not seem possible that this Is
.,o final week before Lent, and that
tonisht will see the Second Assembly.
,to true however, and It almost seems
~ 70 Il would be clear night as well
+, :, n fairly warm one, which you will
grant Is unusual.
hone Mrs. Fisher will be able TO
.,;rc She is such delightful per.
reu IT,. She is Eleanor IIart's grand
,sS"tber sv,j YOU know. Eleanor IL all hcdgetl
no"nd with Assemblyites. Her uncle.
y. Charlie Hart. Is on the committee
I'd I'd when he is not, her father. Mr..
William Hart. generally IS. or some
n,har close relation, and her mothers
SUntber, Mrs. Fisher Is the leading
mstroness this year. Mrs. Fisher was
vpnable TO receive on the night Of the
First Assembly because OF Illness. but
sbe has entirely recovered since then.
A good many people nre in the South
~ prcsent and there nre not to be Ms
m,nv ont .of.town guests for this ball,
understand, so the floor will be won
derfui for dancing: always like the
.scond ball best. Everyone Is afraid to
stsv away from the first for fear they
"nn't ' see who got in and who was in.
yhed, At the second they know, and
when they 20 they {. so for a good
NJ course the whole of the ballroom
Aoor at the Bellevue Stratford will be
used, the Clover Room being turned into
a rustic garden, and the ballroom into
4 mass of Southern blooms. Supper Wi!
ho served in the Palm and Stratford
ho Svhnln
RsIleyue is screened off from the main
hotel. the guests entering from Chan
cellor street. $780,.
There are to be n number Of dinners.
one FOR Sophie Jacobs, another for Anne
xsbton. still another for Rosemary
Howe and several more besides. The
men on the Committee Of the Assemblies
fhis year are DR.. Hart, Beauveau Borie,
jr.. Alexander Van Rensselaer,. Charlie
Biddle, Edward Beale and Fritz Dray'
ton.
rTAyE you heard about the skating
II carnival which Is to be held this
wear on the thirteenth of March! This
time the bcneficiaries are t. be the
Rryn Mawr Hospital Social Service anf
Tho Chestnut Hill Hospital. Mrs. Tom
Newhall is chairman Of the Bryn Mawrr
Service and Mrs. Franklin Pepper OF
There is to be NIL kinds Of exhibition
.katinp. and Teresa Weld Blanchard
and Nat Niles, the national amateur
cbampions, are to come on for the af-
fairy There also will be an exhibition
Of skating by Emma Bergfeldt and
Bror Meyer, champion pair skaters OF
the world. And local talent. too. VIII
have its chance, for the New York Club
and the Philadelphia Club will compete !
in fancy skating. .,.
waltz. and the whole affair will end
with general skating. The Philadelphia
Skating Club has the whole carnival In
Its hands.
uOW quickly the meetings Of the
IL Saturday Evening Glass come
around. There's another for tomorrow
night in the Foyer. wns wishing the
other evening Mt the Midwintcr Ball
that the Saturday evening could be next
night. I remember II the dark ages
when the Saturday evening met in old
Horticultural Hall we sometimes bene-
fted In the decorations from the balls
Of the night before.
Certainly the Academy was gor-
gcous on Tuesday night. You know
lney lulS FelNcG curtains over tHS OulCe
doors in the corridors. and they car
peted the entrance hall and served the
supper down there at small tables. And
they had ferns and great vases Of flow.
ers out in the corridors. for while the
ball Is not large enough to take in
the Academy floor proper, 1t has the
whole house, you know. However. that
IS a thing Of the past, but it's beau.
tiful memory.
Tomorrow night those receiving will
be Mrs. Charlton Yarnall, Mrs. George
McFadden, who recently came home
from Ialm Beach; Mrs. ID. Moreau
Barringer. Mrs. Percy Clark. Henry
Potter Knight will lead the cotillon,
and will be assisted by Ned Trasel, Jr.,
Stewart Alcorn, George Allen, Jr.. and
Lee Patton, Jr.
WHILE it is a bit late to tell q
w Washington Birthday story. this
really happened yesterday. Robbie
came in from playing with rather
aggrieved expression of countenancc.
Dad" said he. "what day ws yes
terdny?' "Washington Birthday"
replied father. promptly, forgetting
that one Of Bobbie's friends was named
washington: he omitted the George"
'Well.' said Bob. II like that, he
never asked me to his party"