New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-15
Debutante Is Hostess at
Largest FestiVity of
Season SO Far.
600 GUESTS DANCE
AT HOTEL PLAZA
Entire Floor Is Engaged for
Supper and Decorations Are
All Pink Blooms.

,rgest dance Of the season last night
:. the Plaza for her debutante daugh-
~ Miss Elise French Rice, who was
,ormslly introduced to society at a the
3,ssant November p. The guests
.-rbered about six hundred, and both
,.a-ooms were used for the dancing
IA the entire first floor for supper,
.a was served at small tables short
,,ner midnight. Il was a pink ball,
\, decorations consisting Of flowers
= that color, with a background of
snilax ard greens.
The guests we're received at the en-
rance to the ballrom by Mrs. Rice. the
5ebu,ante and another daughter, Miss
Mildred Gautier Rice. Mrs. Rice was
ina silver tissue gown, with rhinestone
trimmings; Miss Elise Rice wore pink
.slle silk, trimmed with silver and
tslle. and Hiss Mildred Rice's frock
was Of turquoise blue velvet.
Among the guests were 1lr. and Mrs.
George R. Schieffelin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Rutherfurd, Dir. and Mrs.
Charles 2. Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs.
CYRUS Mccormick. Mr.. and Mrs. w.
scott Cameron, Mr.. and Mrs. august
Veckseher. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W. Taft,
M. and Mrs William Farquhar, Mr.
and Mrs henry +. Coe, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lyttleton Fox, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy A.
Rsiney, Mr. and Mrs. Goodhue Living
s,on. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cumnock,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Horace Harding, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Du F. Irving, Mrs. Rob-
EFT Sturgis, Mrs. William Floyd Jones,
lrs. 7. Burial Hoffman, Mrs. George
G. De Witt, Mrs. Alexander Piers.
Other Debutantes There.
Other guests were Miss Katharine
lamont Mss Priscilla Peabody, Miss
Eva Mali Miss Eleanor Keep, Miss
Marion Tiffany, Miss Marietta L.
Chaplin, Miss Amy Clifford, Miss
Gretchen Damrosch. Miss Katherine
S.ews,d, Miss Helena L. Fish, Miss
Katherine Oakman, Miss Elizabeth Cut
ting. Mss Dorothy Battle, Miss Marie
Taller, Miss NJ. Symphorosa Bristed,
Mss Mary Alexander, Miss Beatrice
Burrill. Miss Adrienne Iselin, Miss
Elizabeth ClarksOn, Miss Mildred Saw
yer, Miss kathryn Motley, Miss Julia
Gilbert Miss Alice Haven, Miss Lisa
Shllman, Miss Josephine Nicoll, Miss
Margaret Luce, Miss Harriet McAlpln,
Miss Katherine Porter, Miss Ruth Cut
ting, Miss Elizabeth Kirlin, Miss Vera
Cravath, Miss Harriet Alexander, Miss
Helen R. Morgan, Miss Constance Pea
body, Miss Mercedes de Acosta, Miss
Gwendolin Condor, Miss Virginia Ia
alexandra. Miss Marie L. Rodewald and
Miss Estelle O'Brien.
Some Men Who Danced.
A~ong the men were Henry II. Lam
DON Charles Inman, G. Suydam Cut
ting Philip Randolph, jr., Marshall
KeInochan, George A. Dixon, jr., Bright
Linn. Gordon Mccormick, Reginald b.
Rives. J. Copper Lord, Lewis Delafield,
IT,. D. d. Babcock, Angler Duke, Charles
Lanier. IT., Lewis Kirlin, c. Governor
Hoffman,, Robert R. Livingston, jr.,
Charles Z. Gautier, John X. Hollins,
William F. Phipps, Edward Paul
OBren, F. Burial Hoffman. jr., Muir
ray Hoffman, L. Stuart Wing, jr., Bev-
eriev X. Robinson, Chester Burden,
Marshall Russell, f. L. Holbrook Belts,
Ceraldyn L. Redmond, Z. Vail Stebbins,
Henry L. Coe., jr., William L. Shepherd,
IT,. s. Bryce Wing, Watson c. Emmett,
Roland Redmond, John A. Morris, Ed
ward de Peyster Livingston, Charles de
Rham, Hayward Cutting, Dr.. Fordyce
c. ST. John. Frederick c. lnman, George
Trevor. Lawrence Atterbury, H. Gal
latin Peu and William Bruce Brown.
Mrs. Columbus ODonnell Iselin gave
a reception yesterday afternoon at her
home. g West SD ST., for her debutaute
daughter. Miss Adrienne Iselin. Sew
eral Of the seasons debutantes assist
ID Mrs. lselin and her daughter IN re-
ceiying.
There was a large attendance yes
terday 81 the second for this season OF
Albert Morris Bagby's musical morn
ngs in the ballroom of the Waldorf
Astoria Mss Geraldine Farrar, soprano;
Miss Ada Sassoli, harpist, and Giovanni
Iariinell, tenor, were the artists.
Among those in the audience we're Mrs.
William ID. Sloane, Mrs. W. Rathbone
Bacon, Mrs. Edward n. Breitung, Miss
Louise Iselin, Mrs. j. Allen Townsend,
hrs Samuel II. Valentine, Mrs. WILDER
A. Bloodgood. Mrs. Charles {. Naydal,
Mrs Henry W. Taft, Mrs. Henry Scott
Rokenbaugh. Mrs. Lee Delafield, Miss
Mary Fitz-Gibbon, Mrs. Robert Under
wood Johnson. Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
Yrs. Cass Gilbert, Mrs. Edwin Gould.
Mrs. Louis r. Hoyt. Mrs. William Bar
bour and Mrs. Dean Sage.
The Misses Preston, daughters of the
late Stephen Preston, for many years
dean Of The diplomatic corps and Minis
ter from Haiti at Washington, VIII give
q matinee dansante Thursday afternoon
IN the ballroom Of the Plaza. among
the patronosses are Mrs. Charles b: Al
exander, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs.
Ogden Mills, Mrs. +. Henry Hartman
Mrs. William Douglas Sloane, MRS. John
r Drexel, Mrs. Elbridge I. Gerry, Mrs.
Frederick Pearson and Mrs. James
Spcyer.
For the benefit Of the committees Of
the East Side Settlement, at 18th ~;
and East River, a poverty dance "lli
be held tonight in one OF the halis OF
the Grand Central Palace. Among
those interested in II are Mrs. Patrick
A Valentine, Mrs. Daniel >. Lamont
Yrs Henry p. DAWSON, Mrs. Sturgis
Iofin and Mrs. G. l.. Riker.
An entertainment will be given this
afieYnoOn al the Shubert Theatre IN
AID Of the destitute and starving won
- and children Of France and the Bel
ssan refugees. Among those who have
.aken boxes arc Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mrs.
Ogden COelet, Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bit and Mrs. Rutherford Stuyvesant.
Mrs. Henry Lewis Morris will give a