Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-17

A FTER quite a lull in parties there
"a are TO be two balls this week and a
dinner dance at the Ritz Carlton on
Saturday night for Molly Thayer, who
Is to sail for Europe the following week.
The Morning Musicale at the Belle
vue. .Stratford was very gay. Every one
you know was there. !! saw Mrs: Ar
thur Newbold. Jr., and Mamie Lewis
Grant, and Mrs. Albert Pancoast and
Mrs. Ben Reath, who were In Mrs. Joe
Widcner's box. Mrs. Stanley Flagg,
Jr.. had Mrs. Robert G.. Drayton and
Mrs. John Groome az her guests. and
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, had one OF her
daughters with her, ] could not rec
ognize which one across the ballroom.
Mrs. William Paul O'Neill entertained
in Mrs. j. Bcrtram Lippincott's box.
You know, she is Mrs: Lippincotts
daughter, Mrs. Howard Clark was
there. and Mrs. Herbert Clark and
Mrs. Gordon Fetterman were together,
and Mrs. Robert Lesley and Mrs. VIII
ham Wilcox.
Madame N1atzenauer was In perfect
voice and received a great ovation.
There were several luncheon parties
after the musicale. r.
TSAw Elise du Pont on the street the
J. other day and she had on the best
looking black coat with q big col
lar and cuffs Of squirrel fur. The coat
was heavily embroidered in black silk,
and with It sbc wore n small black hat
with French blue brim and blue georg-
ette streamers arranged on the right
eide. Gray stockings and black sandal
slippers finished the costume, and she
certainly did look very smart.
Another awfully smart get-up is worn
BY Clair Cuttings. You know, Isabel
and Clair Glttings and their mother,
Mrs, John G. Cuttings, who was Miss
Bertha Morton, a sister Of Miss Helen
Morton, Arthur Morton and Mrs. John
Story Jenks, Jr.. are living here this
winter, and Claire, by the way; Is TO DC
an honor guest at a dinner which Mr..
Morton will give before the next sat
urday Evening Class. x.,
We'll TO tell about Clair's suit. It's
of gray homespun and she wears a
gray hat trimmed with q lavender or
purple feather, and gray stockings and
A fine touch is a muffler Of gray and
lavender plnid. Clair Is attractive,
rather tall and slim. She has large,
beautiful eyes and pretty brown hair.
The Cuttings lived formerly in Nir-
gluia. il / am not mistaken, but they
arc now at OZol w lSSouiChoh uNChu''
in Germantown. and Jimmie is going to
school Mt the Chestnut Hill Academy.
or COURSE, every one is looking
" forward to the Marriage Tax" to.
night, which is to be given in the
Academy of Music. Have you heard
that tho Richards girls arc to be the
little boy twins of the show. a wee
bird saw them Mt tho rehearsal, and
she told me she never had seen anything
cutter than their costumes.
There's n pretty sub-deb chorus that
we will all be interested in, and some
charming Quaker maids. And did you
know that Deborah Seal is going tt
lead party Of Cooks tourists through
the show. I'll wager that part of the
performance will be riot, II nothing
else. Uytendalc Gamer is in it. You
know, and Nelson Eddy. and Jane
Maule and nearly all our leading light
in Amateurdom. That's good word
don't you think?, I'm rather takei
with it myself.
MOTHER was emptying the book
1Nl cases the other day. She will no
trust fathers handsome hooks to am
one else's care, you sec. So she clean
them carefully and thoroughly at leas
twice q year and dusts them othG
times. Ethel was helping her witt
much interest, talking all the while
finally, picking up n small boos,, sh
asked, Mother, dear. does this bool
live on that top shelf"
NANCY WYNNE.