New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-12
THEATRE PARTIES
FOR DEBUTANTES
Dinners and Trips to
Shows Follow Home
Receptions.
FOUR GIRLS MAKE
BOW TO SOCIETY
They We're Miss Riker, Miss
Palmer, Miss Colgate and
Miss Kerr.

Mrs. Samuel Riker gave reception
yesterday afternoon at her home, 2O6
Madison Avenue, to introduce her
daughter, Miss Frances L. Riker and
her niece, Miss Constance l.. Chappell,
daughter of DR.. Walter F. Chappell.
Assisting in receiving were Miss
Nathalie W. Wood, Miss Helen Alexan-
.'-, Miss Geraldine Adee. Miss Ethel
ter, Miss Madeleine Carey, Miss
iarion Carey Dinsmore, Miss Mary
iartshorne. Miss Margaret Busk, Miss
Isabel Stettinius, Miss Angeline Krech
Miss Dorothy Greer, Miss Virginia
Kneeland, Miss Gertrude Geer, Miss
Charlotte Riker, Miss Edith FarI
and Miss Charlotte Strong. A dinner
and theatre party followed. The extra
guests we're James NJ. Beck, jr., Amory
Haskell. Edward lie Roy, James Trask
Lawrence Dowd, Jonn Potter, Robert c
Myles, IT,, Joseph r. Busk, G. Maury
Jones, Reuel Kimball, Shelton and Bar.
tow Farr, Raymond Hoaglsnd, William
Thompson, Allan MacDougall, William
Preston. Arthur Du Bots and Alrick II
Mann, jr.
Mrs. Nicholas F. Palmer gave a recep.
ton yesterday afternoon at her house
992 Fifth Avenue, 20 introduce
her granddaughter, Miss Lillian Pal.
mer, the debutante daughter oil
Mr.. and Mrs. George Quintard
Palmer. In the receiving line were
Miss Frances Ballard, Miss Margaret
Thompson, Miss Helen Barrett. Miss
Marion Perry, Miss Josephine Bedle
Miss Caroline Dorset, Miss Hope Will
Jams, Miss Helen Porter, Miss Jean
nette Blake and Miss Muriel Wiggin.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius S. Walsh, of 81
Louis, gave dinner for the debutante
the receiving party and a few men
Later they took their guests to the
Hippodrome. The men were Horace
Hotchkiss. Coleman McGovern, Dean
Klabfeisch, Christopher Greer, Bache
Brown, Thomas and Albert Johnson
Coster Steers, Frederick Cunningham
and Henry c. Steers, jr.
Mrs. Craig Colgate gave reception
Yesterday afternoon at her home, 30e
West Seventy-siXth Street, TO introduce
her daughter, Miss Grace Colgate.
In the receiving line were the debu-
tante's sisters, Mrs. Stanley W. Rom.
bough and Miss Florence Colgate: her
cousin, Miss Florence Colgate, OF
Cambridge; Miss Marion Cleveland, OF
Princeton; Miss Marie Thayer and Miss
Elizabeth Eliot, of Cambridge, Mass.
Miss Elizabeth Cushman, Of Albany;
Miss Elizabeth Phelps, of Binghamton;
n. Y; Miss Nomina Twining, of Troy;
Miss Hope Colgate, Miss Genevieye
Hodge, Miss Elizabeth Jennings, Miss
Charlotte, Plat, Miss Katherine Olcott
and Miss Alice Baldwin, of this city.
A dinner followed. and afterwsrd the
receiving party and a few men were
taken to the Harris Theatre.
Mrs. John Clapperton Kerr intro
duced her daughter. Miss Helen Culver
Kerr, at reception yesterday after
noon at her home, 1876 Central Park
West.
Assisting in receiving were Mrs.
James L. Morgan. Miss Beatrice HALEY
Miss Condace Hewitt, Miss Caroline
Hicks Dorset, Miss Josephine Bedle
Miss Isabel S. Yeomans, Miss Eleanor
Margaret Greene, Miss Jeanette Blake
Miss Geraldine Condit Hall, Miss Amy
g. Jennings, Miss Katherine Lyon and
Miss Mabel Alker, all Of Manhattan;
Miss Lois Grace Smith, Miss Made
leine Halloek, Miss Constance Gray
Miss Elizabeth Haight, Miss Charlotte
Edwards Hubbard and Miss Mary 0s-
born Polak, Of Brooklyn; Miss Frances
Phillips and Miss Kathleen Moses, OF
Washington; Miss Shelby Johnson, o.
Baltimore, and Miss Jean Forrest, OF
Chicago.
At the tea table were Mrs. Walter
Charles Bettinson, Mrs. Ormi Ford
Hubbard, Mrs. A. Hatfield Mrs. Glen
worth Reeve Butler and Miss Emily
Rushmore. A dinner followed after
which the guests were taken TO the
Hudson Theatre.
The men in the party were Lawrence
Rossiter, Hamilton II. Salmon, jr., Will
lam Boaz, Sidney Z. Brewster, Ashley c.
Hewitt, y. S. Wyckoff Vanderhoef, Ste
phen French McCready. Douglas Ken
yon James W .Alker, Nelson Ford Car
roll B. Alker, Eugene Jones, Logan Tim
berlake, Octave Blake, Lygett Gray
Warren Pond, A. Clarke Bedford, Darl-
ington Pierce, Morris +. Kinnan and
Horatio King Gray.
45o ENTRIES FOR BENCH SHOW