New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-24
FOUR COMING-OUT
DANCESFOR GIRLS
Miss Parsons and Miss
O'Brien Presented at
Parties at Sherry'S.
MISS KERR MAKES
BOW AT BILTMORE
Miss Wiggin Introduced at Home
Reception-Mrs. Carnegie I'm"
tertains for Miss Margaret.

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Mrs. II. de Berkeley Parsons gave
dance last night at Sherry's for her
Cobutante daughter. Miss Katherine dc
Berkeley Parsons. The dancing began
about ten o'clock IN the small ball
room. and soon after midnight sup
Der was served in the tapestry room
Mrs. Parsons's guests included some
Of the debutantes of the season as
we'll as some Of the older girls. Among
them wer, Miss Eleanor de Graf Guy
Ter. of Philadelphia; Miss Helen Mac
Grecor Byrne, Miss Marian Hartman
Miss Helen Hamilton. Miss Alma DE
GersdorF, Miss Rita Norrle. MISS mary
jay Schieffelin. Miss Anstiss de eau
: Miss Annette Msrkoe, Miss irene
Langhorne Gibson. Miss Ruth outing
Miss Pauline Bacon. Miss Edith Blair
Miss Elizabeth Howard. MISS AieNah-
oria Emery. Miss Maud Coster. MISS
Adrienne lselin, Miss Ethel Potter ana
Miss Mary Anna Lincoln.
Others were Percy Il. Pyne. I'd;
Wadsworth Lewis, Archibald Roosevelt
Geraldvn Redmond. Albert Eugene
Gallatin. Reginald B. Rives. Roland
Hartman. r. Winthrop Kane. Alfred
Hoyt. Marshall r. Kernochan, Chester
Burden. William Osgood. Maurice
Roche. Edward A. lie Roy, jr.; Francis
Roche. r. Thornton Wilson, Richard
Gambrill, Livingston Parsons and
Charles Lanier.
Another dance was given at Sherry's
last night by Mrs. Morgan J. O'Brlen
/ for her debutante daughter, MISS
Msude O'Brien. The large ballroom
was used, the supper being served IN
the reception room adjoining. During
supper the two hundred guests were
entertained by minstrel singing ana
fancy dancing The rooms were dec
Grated with Christmas trees, holly
poinsettia and palms.
Mrs. John Clapperton Kerr, 1876 Cen
trail Park West. gave dinner dance
last night at the Biltmore for her
debutante daughter, Miss Helen Gull
YER Kerr. The small ballroom was
used and the decorations were holly,
roinsettia and other flowers suggestive
Of the Christmas season. For the sup
per the guests, numbering 23O, were
seated at small tables.
After the dinner there was 4 South
ern cotillon which was led by George
Davis Kittridge, of Louisville. and
] Carruthers Askew Coleman, of Missis-
sippi. The favors we're Hawaiian
beads. japanese fans and feather
flowers for the girls, and paper cut
ters. silver pencils and ash trays for
the boys.
Mrs. Kerr was assisted in receiving
by her sister. Mrs. Arthur X. Buxton;
her niece. Miss Jessie Tresdwell; Mrs.
Parker Newton, Mrs. Charles Bettin-
on. Miss Emily Rushmore. Mrs. Shelby
Johnson. Of Baltimore; Miss Kathleen
Hoses, Of Washington, and Miss
Marian Coleman, of Mississippi.
Among the young people present
were Miss Katherine Lyon. Miss Marie
Munroe. Miss Edith Williams, Miss
Delite Woollcy. Miss Marion Wander
hoef. Miss Emmelena Sizer. Miss Amo
Sessions, Miss Diana Richards. Miss
Ann Rogers. Miss Mildred Gautier
Rice. Miss Vera de Ropp, Miss Elise
French Rice. Miss Marie Caroline
Pratt, Miss Mabel Alker. Miss Beth
Leary. Miss Wealthy Lewis, Miss Jean
nette Blake. Miss Josephine Bedle,
Miss Beatrice Kally, Miss Amy Jen-
nings. Miss Madeline Hollock, Miss
Charlotte Hubbard, Miss Elizabeth
Haight, Miss Caroline Dorset, Miss
Helen Clarkson. Miss Katherine Gull
bert, Miss Eunce Clapp and Miss
Helen Barrett.
Also Horatio King Gray. Lygett
Gray. Joseph Graham. Ralph De Witt
Wortley, Murray Vernon, Wherefore
Scully, Harold de Ropp. Wallace
Chauncey, David Cowles. Csss Garfield,
William Childs, Clifford Carver, Alex
ander Bass, Herbert Bsssett Sidney
Brewster. Clark Bedford, Russell
Higelow. James Alker, Wyckof Wander
hoef. Carroll Alker, Douglas Woolley
and David Geary.
Mrs Frederic c. de Veau, of 90 East
Fiftythird Street, gave a dinner last
night at Sherry's for her debutante
daughter, Miss Anstiss de Veau. The
dinner was served in the tapestry room
81 small tables which were decorated
with pink roses. After dinner Mrs. de
Veau took her guests, numbering about
sixty, 10 see Princess Pat" at the Cort
Theatre.
In the party were Miss Marion Dins-
more, Miss Vera Morgan, Miss Beatrice
Sorchan, Miss Adelaide Flint, Miss
Alice Davies, Miss Mary Hsrtshorne.
Miss Lillian Palmer Miss Mildred
Mitchell, Miss Eleanor Cuyler, Miss
Katherine Crosby, Miss Madeleine
Carey. Miss Helen Alexander, Miss
Frederick Bull. Miss Dorothy Greer,
Miss Alma de Gersdorff. Miss Angelina
Krech, Miss Geraldine Adee, Miss Julia
Zabriskie. Miss Constance Chappell,
Miss Anita Delafield. Miss Mary /.
Francke, Miss Helen Pierce, Miss Mar
Earet Minott and Miss Rosamund
Batchelder, Of Boston
Others were George Rushmore. Ed
ward Condor, Francis Henderson, Rob-
ert Monroe, James Monroe. George de
Neau, Reginald Whitman. Frederic de
Neau. Theodore Sizer. John Browning.
Franklin Lawrence, Thomas Mackay,
John Phillips, Tappin King. Chester
Ladd. Robert Littell, William Emerson.
Boughton Cobb. Jarvis Cromwell,
Julien Davies, Charles Baker, John
ELEPHANT. Endicott Putnam. OF Boston.
and David Sanford, Of Baltimore.
After the theatre some Of Mrs. de
Neau's guests went 20 Miss Parsons's
dance al Sherry's.
Mrs. Albert II. Wiggin gave n dinner
dance last night at her home. 52l PARK
Avenue, for her daughter. Miss Muriel
Wiggin. The dinner was served for
about eighty at small tables, and
Christmas decorations were used. After
dinner a number Of additional guests
came in for the dancing.
Preceding the dinner the debutante
was assisted in receiving by several Of
the seasons debutantes. Among them
we're Miss Marion Townsend. Miss Bes-