Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-27
IN THE WORLD OF SOCIETY
BRILLIANT PICTURES AT THE
DRAPER COSTUME BALL.
Tea Dance for Miss Lucy Hoke
Smith-Dinners-Personal
Notes.

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pageants of historical and fancy dress
at which society has admired It's mem
bers in this home. The glittering Won
| ders of the gathering had been fully
| enjoyed when supper was served at mid
| night around rose-decked tables Then
with the going home of some of the com
pany dancing was an easier matter in
the ballroom for the couple of hundred
who stayed on until the last
| The ball was opened with ceremony
| Two heralds in costume gave the trumpet
call. which announced the formation of
the procession. Led by Miss Margaret
Draper. who was escorted by Count
| Gunther Won Bernstorff marches and
| countermarchtss throughout the halls and
rooms followed Each fair lady carried
rose and each escort a trumpet
The only daughter of the Draper house
| or Charles VII of France. The costume
was rich and becoming to its youthful
| Wedrer. 1t was of pale green satin bro
| caded in silver and worn with a pink
| brocade skirt. Ermine revers added the
| queenly touch, and from a jeweled head
dress fell, on either side of its square top
a long lace veil. Silver cords fastened
her side bag, and to carry out the por-
| trait her fair hair was worn In two long
braids down her back. She wore seI eral
strands of pearls as a necklace.
| Mrs. Draper was another French
queen, Marguerite de Valois. wife of
violet velvet over a silver and jeweled
white satin petticoat, with a Medici
| collar of Venetian point and worn with
| appropriate jewels. was a regal one.
Count Gunther Won Bernstorff wore
\ a court costume of the Louis XIII
period.
Among the guests the debutantes of
| the winter made a lovely group Miss
Miss Helen Wa1cott was Queen Clotilde
| of France. Miss Margaret Brittons cos
tune was after a Titan picture, Miss
Eleanora. Morgan portrayed a medieval
| lady in dress of green. gold and
| old rose brocade, and Miss Mary Gheen
| the same period, the coloring of her dress
being corn CO or and pale blue.
Other bellies of the party were Mile.
Ernestine van Rappard, a peasant of the
Moyen age: Miss Louise HELEN wore an
Elizabethan dress; Miss Ethel Noyes rep
resented Beatrix d Estes: Miss Frances
Moves was the little queen wife of Rich
ard IL: Miss Sophy Johnston wore
| medieval mourning costume: Miss Doris
Haywood was the Duchess d Etemdre;
Miss Mary McCauley followed a Rubens
portrait: Miss Katherine Weeks wore a
fourteenth century costume; Miss Lila
Harrison was in an Elizabethan dress:
Miss Alice Whiting was Queen Anne of
France.
Miss Margaret Breckenridge followed an
ancient portrait in dress of silver and
garnet. Miss Harriet Switzerland copied
an English portrait. Miss Catherine Brit
ton was Russian coach boy, Miss Julia
Whiting was Catherine de Medici, Miss
Katherine Jennings a lady OF King Ar
thurs court. and Miss Katherine Nc
Clintock and Miss Alys Downing were
fourteenth century ladies.
Miss Florence Gheen wore medieval
costume in pink and silver brocade. and
,rI0
| cade costume of the middle ages. Miss
Rebe41ah Wilmer wore a Turkish cos
turffe, and Miss Cecilia May was in a
Persian dress. Miss Katherine Hill was in
| a Juliet costume Miss Symons wore a
medieval dress, Miss Gladys ingalls, an
Egyptian costume, and Miss Alice Whit
| ing; was a lady of the court of Louis XIII.
Other lovely dresses and their wearers
were Mrs. Edward 3. Mclean, an Eng
| iish court lady: Mrs. Chester p Barnett,
an oriental dress; Mrs. Preston Gibson.
Marie de Medici; Mrs. Henry c. Perkins,
| an Elizabethan dress; Nine. Ekengren,
Swedish peasant; Nine. Golejevski, Queen
Isabella; Nine. Havenith Turkish
| lady; Mrs. Montgomery Blair, a titled
lady of the court of Henry "; Nine.
| Scherbatskoy, Spanish dancer; Mrs
Charles S. Hamlin, a Knickerbocker dress
of 1900; Mrs. James Wadsworth, a Span
/, ish dancer: Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, a
sixteenth century lady; Mrs. Heathcoat
| Grant wore a medieval costume and Mrs.
| Sidney Ballou's dress copied a Leonardo
da Vinci portrait of the Duchess of Milan
Among the men in costume were Mr..
Henry Breckenridge. assistant secretary
of war, who was a cardinal; Mr.. Preston
| Gibson, 200-year-old court dress of
| green velvet; Mr.. Lawrason Riggs a fif-
teenth century Florentine gallant Mr..
Duncan Phillips, Sir Walter Scott; Mr..
James Phillips, a Turk; Mr.. Eames Mac
Veagh, Henry of Navarro; Mr.. William
| Bowie Clarke was Viscount de Cont
| Col. Golejevski, a medieval gentleman; DIR.
Scott Breckenridge was King John OF
England: Mr.. Scherbatskoy, court gen.
| tleman: Viscount day. sixteenth cen
fury gallant of France; Mr.. William
F1ather was Robin Hood Mr.. Dudley
Morgan, Prince Charming: Mr.. III. T. Crit
| tenden. Henry VIII: DIR. Langhorne, a
Dominican monk; Mr.. Thomas Symons, a
knight; Mr.. James Wadsworth, black
/ friar: Maj. Won Herwarth, hunting cos
tune; Mr.. Henry May, Louis XIV cour-
tier; Baron Kurt Won Lersner. an early
| German dress: Mr.. Thomas Bowers, a
crusader; Mr.. Chauncey Hackett, Sir Wal
ter Raleigh, and DR.. Howard Hume, a
courtier.
| The guests OF the Home for Aged La
| dies, 3043 p street, will receive their
| friends New Year day from to 6
| o'clock.
Miss Hortense Rosenthal of 235 Flor
ida avenue has as her guest her cousin,
Miss Fannette Perlman of Baltimore.
DR.. Charles d. Walcott and his debu-
| tante daughter Miss Helen Walcott, en-
| tertained at dinner last night in compli-
ment to Miss Mona McAdoo The guests
| to meet her were Miss Ernestine Van
| Rappard Miss Margaret Draper, Miss
Ethel Noyes. Miss Mary McCauley NJ IS
| Sophy Johnston, Miss Margaret Perrin,
Miss Rebekah Wilmer Commander Bur
styn, Senior Algara, Mr.. Schmolck of
the Netherlands legation. Mr.. Coleman
| Jennings. Mr.. John Cotton Smith, Mr..
George Harrison, Mr.. Stedman Hanks
and Mr.. Sidney Walcott A number of
the guests went later to the costume ball
at the home of Mrs. William +. Draper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Britton were
also among those giving dinner parties
last night. Their guests included Mr..
and Mrs. Preston Gibson, Miss ingalls,
Mss Harriet Switzerland. Miss Edwina
Bruner, Miss Br.tton, Miss Margaret
Britton. Mr.. Henry May. Mr.. Wilson
and Mr.. Campbell of the British en-
| bassy, Baron Won Lersner or the Ger
man embassy and Mr.. Gerald May.
Miss Mary Perry Brown OF MlntWooo
place is In Philadelphia for the holidays
and is now visiting her brother-in-laW
and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur H. Lee
of 1904 Walnut street
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson a. Miles entertain
ed Cen Smith and daughter and Mr. and
| Mrc A w coodhart at dinner at the