New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-17
LAUNCH SEASONS
SENIOR DANCES
Many Dinner Parties Pre-
cede First Of Series in
Sherry's Ballroom.
DERUTANTE AFFAIRS
FOR YOUNGER SET
Luncheons and Theatre Parties
Keep Years Buds in Social
Limelight.


The first Of the Thursday Senior
Dances was held last night in the large
ballroom at Sherry's and was we'll at
tended. Several dinners were given be-
fore the dance, the hostesses including
Mrs. b. Ogden Chisolm, Mrs. Charles
II. Mellon and Mrs. Charles Bradley.
The guests, on their arrival at Sherry g,
were received by the four patronesses,
Mrs. Bradley, Mrs Chisolm, Mrs. Mel
lon and Mrs. Richard c. Colt. There
was general dancing until midnight
when buffet supper was served.
Mrs. Chisolm's dinner was at her
home. q West Tenth Street, and her
guests included Miss Margaret Hen
derson. Miss Lois Cunningham, Miss
Margaret Knapp, Mrs. Harold Arnold,
Don Morrison Kelly, Francis Boyd, Al
fred Hoyt, Elliott Cobb, Juan Ceballos,
Frederick SchiefTeiin, Or. Harold
Arnold and Charles Baker.
Mrs. MELONS dinner was at Sherry
and her guests were Nh and Mrs.
Henry Mellon, Mr. and Mrs Franklin
s Richardson, Nj and Mrs. Edmund
S. Twining. jr., Miss JEANNE and Miss
Marie l.. Emmett. Miss Lisa Stllmhn'
SHEPARD Krech, Watson Emmet. Brad
ford Locke and William Boulton.
Mrs. Bradley's dinner took place At
the Ritz Carlton.
Mrs. William Comstock Pearson. OF
165 West Seventy-siXth street, gave
luncheon yesterday at Sherry's for her
daughter. Miss Madeleine Pearson. Her
guests. numbering twenty-slX, included
Miss Elizabeth Gregory. Miss Marion
Becker, Miss Katherine Hall, MISS
Helen Bludgeon, Miss Jeanette J..
Pruyn. Miss Margaret Potter, Miss
Emma Ross Leslie, Miss Josephine Dan
forth. Miss Mabel Venner, Miss Lois
Mills. Miss Wealthy Lewis, Miss Aida
Oddie Banks, Miss Josephine Coster,
Miss Alice Baldwin, Miss Helen d..
Geer. Miss DIVA Hoe Slade, Miss Grace
Colgate. Miss Elisabeth Haldane, Miss
Marjorie Bruce Stewart, Miss Esther
Louise Denny, Miss Resale Clarke,
Miss Katherine Lyon, Miss Mary w.
Munro and Miss Gertrude Geer.
Mrs. ]. Rich Steers, Of 81 East Sixty
seventh Street, gave luncheon yester-
day for Miss Adelaide and Miss Aileen
Sedgwick, the debutante daughters OF
Mrs, Harry Sedgwick. The guests were
Miss Isabel Stettinius, Miss Resale
Bloodgood, Miss Charlotte Plat, MISS
Dorothy Greer, Miss Hope Williams,
Miss Mary Francke, Miss Ethel Pot
ter, Miss Frederick Bull, Miss Mary
Hartshorne, Miss Lillian Palmer and
Miss Mary Cushman.
Mrs. J. Stevens Ulman gave dance
last night at her house, "a East Eighty
first Street. The guests numbered
about three hundred. The. first and
second floors were used for the dancing
and two orchestras played Supper was
served shortly after midnight.
Mrs. Ernest Flagg gave a dinner OF
fourteen covers last night al her nome
100 East Fortieth Street, for MISS
Isabel Stettinius.
Miss Edith Macculloch Miller gave
small luncheon yesterday at her home
270 Madison Avenue.
Warner VI. Leeds personally super
vised the selection Of plays to be gwen
Friday evening, January 7, at the
Bandbox Theatre, which Mr.. and Mrs.
Leeds have taken for that night for
Mrs Leeds debutante nieces, Miss
Constance Moore and Miss Mary W.
Hartshorne. Mr.. and Mrs. Leeds have
reserved the whole theatre, and the
guests will go on from several dinners.
Among the hostesses Will be MIS-
James Byrne, Mrs. Robert Hartshorne,
Mrs. Thomas Denny and Mrs. J. Mott
Hartshorne. There will be a dance
after the performances.
Baron and Baroness Alfred de Ropp'
112 East Sixty-frst Street. Will give
a dinner tomorrow at Sherry's TOT
their son, Baron Harold de Ropp.
Mr.. and Mrs. william Ayrault Haz-
ard will entertain house party over
New Years Eve at their country place,
Meadow Hall, Cedarhurst, Long lJand'
Mrs. George Henry Newton, Of IA
East Sixtieth Street, will give re-
ception Tuesday 10 introduce MISS lsa-
bel y. Newton
Mrs. William Anderson Keys will in
.rodure her daughter, Miss Adelaide
Kevs. tomorrow at reception at ner
home. 1853 West Seventy-seventh Street
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown will
spend the winter at their country home'
Springhurst, Dobbs Ferry.
Mr. and Mrs. John Clafin and the
Misses Clafin have arrived from tneii
country place at Morristown. \. D., ana
are at the Hotel Gotham until ai'ef
the holidays.
Mrs. Jules s. Bache gives dance
this evening at Sherry's for Miss Kath-
ryn King Bache.
Mr,. Ira Barrovs, Of 52l Park Ave
nue will give a dinner and theatre
party tonight for Miss Rachel Filter
Of Philadelphia.
Mis-. Ethel Simmons will be intro
duced 10 society this afternoon at
reception which her mother, MRS.
Charles II. Simmons, will give at her
homo. III Madison Avenue.
Mrs. w. Seward Webb will give
dinner this evening at Sherry's for
Miss Annette Markoe.
Christmas bazaar and the dansant
will be held this afternoon at the RITZ
Carlton for the benefit Of the oItho-
nedic ward Of the Post-Graduate NOS