Evening Star Newspaper, November 10, 1929, Page 50

Debutantes Now Hold Sway on New York Society Stage Honor ‘Receptions, Dinners and Dances Con- spicuously Feature Season's Calendar—Com- mittee Planning fo 4 The NEW YORK, November 9.—The de-| the invitation and program for the ball. ' of "Clarendon have visiting them Mrs. butantes will hold the center of social stage from now until after Christmas holidays and luncheons, ceptions, dinners and_dances in their | honor follow one another in rapid suc- cession. In fact, 5o numerous become | the parties that it seems almost a phys- ical impossibility to keep up with the social engagements. The dances end at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and | the young women have to be ready for luncheon parties by 1 o'clock and before that have their appointments at_the hairdressers, the dressmaker, etc. It is small wonder that by the first of the year most of them have to take a rest cure. In fact, many of them break down when the season is half over. Mrs. Clifford 8. Sims will give a debutante luncheon at Sherry’s Monday in honor of her daughter, Miss Martha Lee Sims. Tomorrow Mr. and Mrs. | Leonard Cox will give a tea for Miss | Rosalind Kress, debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claude W. Kress. Mrs. William Woods Plankinton will give a luncheon at Pilerre’s Tuesday for her debutante daughter, Miss Eliza- beth S. Plankinton. On the same day Mrs. John Sargent of Greenwich, Conn., will give a luncheon at Sherry’s for ‘her debutante daughter, Miss Jean Sar- gent. Mrs. Allen Merrill Rogers will | give a luncheon Wednesday at sherry‘af for her debutante daughter, Miss Kath- | erine M. Rogers. Other Buds Are Listed For Honor Ceremonial. Miss Dorothy Evans, who will be in- | troduced to society at a dinner and dance to be given New Year night by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brew- ster, will be the guest of honor at luncheon Thursday by Mrs. Thomas | ‘Webster Edgar. Several parties will be given Friday, | November 15. Former Gov. Charles S. Whitman will be host at an afternoon reception in the Colony Club to intro- duce his daughter, Miss Olive Whit- man, for whom he will give a dinner- dance, also at _the club, November 29. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parker Stevens will | introduce their daughter, Miss Alice Pendleton Stevens, at a dinner-dance | at the Ritz-Carlton November 15 and Mrs. Charles Pinkney Sumner will give a luncheon November 15 for her debu- tante niece, Miss Beatrice Carroll. ‘The same n)‘bm Mrs. Prederick H. Douglas of Seabright, N. J., will be hostess at dinner at Plerre’s to intro- duce her daughters, Miss Elizabeth Douglas and Miss Janet Douglas. Mr. and Mrs. Conde Nast will entertain at a dinner and dance in their residence November 15 for the Misses Wurzburg, debutante daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Lewis Wurzburg. Mr. and Mrs. Francis P. Carvan will give a ball at the Ritz-Carlton Satur- day, November 16, for Miss Margaret | Dunne, debutante daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Peter Finley Dunne. Betrothal Announced, ‘Wedding Due in Spring. Mr, and Mrs. Geofge Wood Bacon of 23 West Sixty-seventh street and St. James, Long Island, have announced the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth to Mr. Anthony Francis Bisgood of London, England, and this city. Miss Bacon comes of distinguished ancestry. Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lord Francis Pacon of England and Samuel Bacon, who settled in Barnstable, Mass., about the middle of the seventeenth century, are among her ancestors. Through her mother Miss Bacon is a_descendant of the Whittleseys of New England. Miss Bacon attended the Mary C. Wheeler Bchool in Providence, R. I. and was graduated from Smith College. She was introduced to society in New York an_the Winter of 1925. Mr. Bisgood is the son of Mrs. E. B. De Rendon and of Wilfred Bisgood of London. He attended the Royal Naval Colleges of Osborn and Dartmouth, England. His clubs include the Royal Thames and the New York Yacht. He is in business in this city. The wedding will take place in the early spring. Plans for Beaux Arts Ball In Hands of Committee. The executive committee for the Beaux Arts Ball, which is to be held January 24 in the Hotel Astor, met re- cently in the headquarters of the Society of Beaux Arts Architects in the Beaux Arts Institute of Design Building, and awarded prizes for the designs sub- the the | Chapters of “Home" Women | of the Young Women's Christian Asso- r Beaux Arts Ball. ; Out of the 75 designs submitted by students from architectural schools rep-' resenting 14 universities, six private ate- re- | liers of architecture and four independ- | Atwood of Holly street entertained Mrs. ent competitors, a first prize of $100 was awarded to Mr. J. O. Mahoney of Yale! University. Five other cash awards were made The second prize was won | by John,Louls Rochon Grand of Catho- | lic University. Others receiving awards | were Mr. W. G. Trimble, Carnegie Tech- nical School: Mr. Don S. King, Univer- | sity of Illinois; Donald Kline, | George Washington University, and Mr. J. J. Chapman, jr., University, of Vir-| gin | Mr. Kenneth M. Murchison, who heads the executive committee, acted a: chairman of the jury of award. As sisting him were Mr. Clinton Mackenzie, Mr. Jahn B. Boyd, Mr. Henry R. Sedge- wick, Mr. F. Burnham Chapman, Mr. Harry R. Burt, Mr. Archibald Brown, Mr. Carl Reimers, Mr. Philip A. Cu sachs, Mr. D, Putnam Brinley, Mr. James O'Connor, Mr. Joseph H. Fried- lander, Mr. Howard Greenley, Mr. Er- nest Peixotto, Mr. Edward McCartan, Mr. H. O. Milliken and Mr. Arthur War. The designs submiitted in the compe- tition are on exhibition in the Institute at 304 East Forty-fourth street. The committees for the Beaux Arts Ball are | now active in the preparations for the event, which will represent the period of | gne'lu‘nnlssunce in France, Italy and pain. . &ccin]ly Aiding Y.W.CA. Nine chapters of “home” women throughout the city are the “backbone” ciation of Washington, lending aid and assistance in countle : ways to the| work of the association throughout the year. It is sald at the Y. W. C. A, that “the Community Chest gave us our bread and butter and the chap’:rs give us the jelly,” which probably expresses the fact in its entirety. Many are the free-will gifts that these nine chapters give each yean to the assoclation, to enhance its value and charm, not only here in the city. but also at the two camps for women, Vacation Lodge in ’V;A’:gmh and Kamp Kahlert in Mary- Mrs. George Winchester Stones, & long time resident of Washington, is the official representative of the nine chap- ters on the board of directors of the Y. W. C. A. She is the chairman of the chapter council, which includes in its make-up the president and one rep- Tesentative from each chapter, with regular mestings held each month and one meeting a year in the administra- tion building of the association on K street. . This year the meeting is sched- :ledv for Monday, November 18, at 11 .m. It is estimated that fully one-third of the membership-of the Y. W. C. A. in its chapters, which include Chase, J. dent; ‘Chevy Craig Peacock presi- eveland Park, Mrs. C. H. rs. Walker president; Dupont, Mrs. George | Pe: Otis Smith president; Georgetown, Mrs, William A, Leetch president; Mount Pleasant, Mrs. Thomas H. Mitchell president; May Day, the baby chapter, organized in Bloomingdale last May day, Mrs, Annie M. Bohrer president; Park View, Mrs. D. Edward Clarke president; Piney Branch, Mrs, H. C. McNeill pres- ident, and Princeton, Mrs. McFall Kerby president, Mrs. Thomas Edwin Brown, president of the Y. W. C. A. board of directors, and Miss Hettie P. Anderson, general secretary in Washington, are members of the chapter council, and Miss Virginia Wingfield is secretary of membership and recreation to which department the chapters belong. ————— In the first eight months of this year Germany produced 6,000,000 more tons of coal than in 1928. NEWEST IN GUEST TOWELS BEAUTIFUL APPLIQUED LINEN TOWELS. COLORED APPLIQUED LUNCHEQN CLOTHS. APPLIQUED TLLOW CASES. Y LOW PRICES EMBROIDERY SHOP 827-829 11th St. N.W. mmitted in competition for the cover of The pronounced success of “Carlton” Cos- tume Shoes this season to their recognition of a new silhouette in foot- wear—just as in dress of line—but marked distinctiveness in detail, workmanship, materials. Pictured, 'a new bl oxford—profusely derlaid with silk will be much in evidence at the Big Games—and other occasions. fourteen-fifty | ré’s al new . SILHOUETTE in Shoes , we feel certain, is due es. Extreme simplicity ack or brown suede perforated and un- kid. A shoe that important daytime is|In the company were Mr. and Mrs. Al THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 10, 1929—_PART THREE. Dinners, Luncheons And Teas Mark Season In Arlington County House Parties, Club Enter- tainments and Dances Also Special Society Attractions | in Record of Week. e Rev. and Mrs. Isaac Slecnson Steenson's parents and aunt, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Todd and_Miss Nellie Helms, of Malone N. Y. Mrs, Oscar, Steenson, Mrs. Todd and Miss Helms t luncheon Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Leighty of Lyon Village were among the guests at a bridge party given Tuesday evening by Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Harter of Washington. Mr. Williams E. Massie of Tyro, Va., is spending a week with his sister, Mrs. Waiter W. Cosby, of Clarendon. Miss May Simpson of Lyon Park was hotess to the Arlington Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Tuesday evening. Mrs. Daniel A. Defandorf enter- tained the Lyon Village Woman’s Club in her home on Richmond avenue Wednesday evening. Mrs. H. A. Pratt assisted Mrs. Defandorf. Mrs. Gharles M. Bardwell of Ashton Heights entertained at bridge Monday evening. Her guests were Mrs. Eleanor Gary, Mrs. F. J. Kelly, Mrs. Golden N. S Davies, Mrs. M. O. . Warner and Mrs. W. J. Massie. . Bardwell leit last week for a business trip through the West. . Mr. Edwin O. Daue of Lyon Park left this week for a visit with his parents in San Diego, Calif. Mrs. Golden N. Dagger of Ashton Heights entertained a group of the ladies of the St. George's Episcopal Church Guild at luncheon Wednesday after- noon. Among the guests were Mrs. Homer A. Dougall, Mrs. Tupper Stone, Mrs. W. P. Ames, Mrs. Wade Ball, Mrs. P. M. Chichester, Mrs. Joseph C. Ander- son, Mrs. Edward K, Kloman, Mrs. Dur- ward M. Smith, Mrs. W. C. Welburn, %fi Arthur M. Dawson and Mrs. Grace te. Delightful Halloween Party An _Event of Saturday Evening. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Wilson of Clarendon was the scene of a delightful Halloween party given Saturday evening by their daughter, Miss Virginia Wilson, and Miss Cecile Stamp. Among the ‘guests were Miss Frances Bell and Miss Gladys Wilson of Harrisonburg, Va. MF. Crandal Hollis and Mr. Richard Hollis of Wash- ington, and Miss Hildegarde Swenson, Miss Virginia Green, Miss Margaret Norfolk, Miss Doris Burke, Miss Ruth M. Porter, Miss Margaret Rice, Miss Janice Rice, Miss Virginia'Kelley, Miss Ruby Cordor, Mr. Lewis Johnson, Mr. Wayne Melvin, Mr. Arthur Hammond, Mr. Morris Kozee, Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Vernon Marsteller, Mr. Frank Scott, Mr. Joseph Strobel, Mr. Gordon Singhas and Mr. Edward Leigh of the county. Miss Mildred Martz of Lyon k entertained the Welfare Club Tuesday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Dorsey. Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rector of Clarendon were hosts at a Halloween dance in their home Thursday evening. Smith of Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Thomas, Miss Margaret Johnson, Mr. MarkMYoung.MMr. and Mrs. K. A. son, Mr. an rs. Wallace Jc | and Mr. and Mrs, L. V. Pearson, e Mr. d Mrs. Willlam D. Lamborne In the most Speci For young people, look young, these around models. Mrs. B | a_delightful dance in her home last J.i WOL W. D. Moses & Sons | of Harrisburg, Pa., are spending the week end with and m Joseph Haley of Lyon Village. Mr. and Mrs. L. Vernon Pearson of Clarendon motored to Buffalo this week, where they will visit Mrs. Pearson's mother, Mrs. Seibert. Mrs. Alton E. Wise of Clarendon, has as her house guest her niece, Miss Mil- dred Vaughn of Dothan, Ala. Mr. Wise is on a business trip to New York City. ruce Green of Clarendon gave evening in honor of the seventeenth birthday anniversary of her sister-in- law, Miss Virginia Green. Chi Delta Gamma Sorority Listed for Tea This Afternoon. The Chi Delta Gamma Sorority of Clarendon will be entertained at tea this afternoon by Mrs. Bruce Green. 'he occasion is in honor of two new members, Miss Ann_Petty and Miss Dorothy Potterton. The other mem- bers are Miss _Frances Bierley, ginia Clementson, Miss Dorris Burke, Miss Frances _Haydon, Miss Vir- Miss Virginia Wilson, Miss Margaret Norfolk, Miss Ann Davies, Miss Cecile Stamp and Miss Virginia Green. Miss Green entertained the sorority in her home Friday evening. Mrs. A. J. Webb of Clarendon will be hostess Tuesday evening to the Thomas Nelson Chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Joseph E. Shawhan and Mrs. Julia Day of Clarendon were hostesses at a largely attended card party given Friday evening in the Priscilla room for the benefit of the Parent-Teacher Association of the Matthew Fontaine Maury School. Rid;ng and fiunt é{ub Juniors Follow Hounds The Riding and Hunt Club held its first junior hunt of' the seafon yester- day at Massachusetts avenue extendea. Miss Elizabeth Jackson was master of hounds and among the many who fol- lowed the hounds were several girls from Trinity College and Holton Arms School. Miss Elizabeth Hatcher won the ?nu glven by the club for the winner of the paper chase, which was held earlier in the week. Many are sending in their hunters to be ready for the opening of the senior hunting season, which will start with the official hunt Saturday. Six hunters of Mr. Peter A. Jay have arrived from Bar Harbor, Me., and Ma). George Pat- ton has sent in four hunters and a pony. | The Ambassador of Cuba, Senor Fer- rara, has had a beautiful thoroughbred hunter brought from Virginia. Mrs. Robert C. IZ:;J atHome To Callers Thursday Mrs. Robert Cooper Kidd held a reception Thursday for the first time | this Winter in her home in George- town. Mme. Josephine de Lagnel, Miss Constance Eastman. Adams and, Miss Margaret Louise O'Brien assisted at the tea table. Mrs. Kidd's studio, in the west wing of the well known Ben- jamin Stoddard house on Prospect ave- nue, is one of the most interesting in: old Georgetown, and the many tall can- dles and bowls of colorful chrysanthe- mums were in pleasing contrast with the brick walls and low-beamed ceilings. H_‘cnrly 100 guests were present during e Fur Work Done here has that distinctive appearance of "well done-—-you_ will find nowhere else. No overcharging. FURRIER . Massachusetts Society Enjoya Evening of Gayety The Massachusetts Society of Wash- ington held its first meeting of the 1929-30 season Monday evening in the ballroom of the Wardman Park Hotel. The entertainment, which consisted of ® minstrel show and dancing, was un- der the supervision of Mr. Adler M. Mann. ~ Dancing started at 9 o'clock and continued until 1 o'clock. It was the most successful opening of a sea- son ever held by the society. About 500 people were present. The commit- tee in charge headed by the As- sistant Attornéy General, Mr. George || R. Farnum, president of the society, who opened the meeting with a short address of welcome. On the reception committee were Mr. and Mrs. George R. Mr. James J. Sweeney, Miss Alice A. Baker, Miss Hazel E. Batchelder, Mr, A. Bowman, M. Chamberlain, Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, Mr. Alfred E. Hanson, Mrs. Robert H. Kempton, Mrs. Frank E. Dicker, Mr. Raymond E. Manning, Miss Edith M. Michand, Mrs. Patricl J. Murray, Mr. George A. Herman, Dr. William 1. Agus, Miss Elsie V. Phalen, Mr. George Roberti, Miss Loretta H. Ryan, Mr. Charles F. Sharkey, Mr. William T. Simpson, Miss Jessie L. Williams and Miss Josephine Wunde: the music committee, Mr. Frank Hickey and Mr. Charles F. Sharkey, and | | the floor committee, Mr. Lewis W. Hart, Mr. Robert H. Kempton and Mr. John H. Springer. The date of the December meeting will be announced shortly and applica- tion blanks for membership may be ob- tained from the secretary, Mr. George A. !;lermln, at 1345 Girard street north- west. : Pygmy Against Giant. NEW YORK, November 9 (#)—Oath- erine Curtis O'Neil, is 6 !Qt. 2 and weighs 190. Her business ventures have included motion picture produc-' tion and ranch-owning. James C. Cleary, an attorney, weighing 118, is Suing her for $5,000 for obtaining her a divorce from Joseph 8. O'Nell, another lawyer. The plaintiff avers she hurled a paperweight in a demonstration in his office in which she was accompanied by a 200-pound man. The Chastleton Cafe 16th at R 5-Course Sunday Dinner $1 Choice of Roast Duckling Roast Chicken Broiled Tenderloin Steak with Mushroom Sauce Roast Lamb or Baked Ham Homemade Ice Cream Variety of Desserts Hot Rolls Have You Tried Our New Cafeteria for Breakfast and Luncheon? Continuous Service from 7:30 AM. to 1:30 P.M. oice of Superior Food at Reasonable Prices, North 10000 Large F Street at Eleventh "New Apparel Always” ~ Sflattering versions of the new Paris Silbouettes *148 al! and for people who manage, quite cleverly, to were designed Clever interpretations of the prin- cess silhouette . . charming wrap- A full range of women’s and misses’ sizes. FURS: Kolinsky dyed civet cat, black caracul, wolf in various shades, kit fox. The Magic Flattery of the all BLACK COATS Selected Furs ‘Charles | | Miss Eleanor Carleton, || Mrs. John A. Chamberlain, Miss Grace || CHANGES COMPLETED. Parliament Committpe to Report Amended Austrian Constitution. VIENNA, November 9 (#).—The par- liamentary subcommittee which has been discussing a series of amendments to the Austrian constitution designed to enlarge the powers of the Presi- dent and take away some of the self- governing status of Vienna, terminated its work this morning. Its report showed that no agreement was reached on vital points between the Fascist Helmwehr representatives and Socialists. It was suggested that the amend- ments will come before the full con- stitutional committee next week. - A 12-cylinder automobile attracted much_attention at the recent automo- | bile show at Paris, France. 0il Law Passes First Reading: By Cable to The Star. . ‘A, Colombia, November 9.— the | ;hc new oil law passed the first readin the Chamber of Deputies Thursday. The bill, which _has already been ap- proved by the Senate, must pass two more readings before it is sent to Presi- dent Miguel Abadia for signature. The Balkan States of Euro] buying increased amounts of States automotive rubber goods. pe are United High-Grade 1894 N. W. /& / & & e at a great saving. 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