Monday, February 17, 1919

Bright but rather cold. Home in A.M. & studied little. Feel quite well. Walked to library in P.M. Played muggins. Read. Went to bed 10 P.M. Hanford & Nellie to Van Curler to see Daddy Long-Legs.

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Muggins is a version of dominoes. Here is a description I took from Wikipedia:

Muggins (also known as All Fives, Five Up, or Doer Di) is a domino game played with any of the commonly available sets. The object of the game is for each player to rid their hand of dominoes, and additionally to score points by playing a domino (or bone) that makes the total number of pips on all endpoints of the board equal to a multiple of five.

Daddy Long-Legs started out as a novel by Jean Webster, published in 1912; in 1914 she adapted the novel into a play. It may be the play that Hanford and Nellie went to see in February of 1919, since the movie was not released, according to Turner Classic Movies, until May of that year.  The movie starred Mary Pickford. Here is a synopsis taken from the Turner Classic Movies website:

Brief Synopsis

The poverty and mean-spirited atmosphere of an orphanage do little to suppress the youthful prankishness and compassion of Judy Abbott, an orphan found in an ash can. When she becomes a teenager, an anonymous new trustee pays for her to go to college on the condition she never meet him. Seeing only his tall shadow, Judy deems him "Daddy-Long-Legs" and soon begins to write him long letters telling him about her life. During the next year, Princeton freshman Jimmie McBride and Jarvis Pendleton, the wealthy uncle of one of Judy's classmates, become attentive to Judy and jealous of each other. Judy rejects Jimmie because he is too young and although she loves Jarvis, she fears revealing her orphanage background, so she tells him that their age difference is too great. Despite her humble beginnings, after graduating from college, Judy becomes a successful writer and begins sending money to her Daddy-Long-Legs to repay his kindness. Although she never has received a response from her benefactor, she determines to visit him after he fails to answer her most recent letter only to find that Daddy-Long-Legs is Jarvis. Having been seriously ill, he had not seen her letter until that morning, but his joyful embrace calms her immediate confusion.

You can see the movie on YouTube at this address: Daddy Long-Legs.