New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-04
Gives Dance for $50 Pre-
coded by Dinner for Men
Friends at Union Club.
FIRST SHERRY BALL
LARGELY ATTENDED
Miss Elizabeth Jennings and
Miss Muriel Cakes introduced
at Thes Dansants.

feTCy II. yne, "a gave udHSc Iao1
night at Delmonico's, which proved to
be one of the most brilliant of the sea-
son. Before the dance Mr.. Pyne enter
tanned about twenty-five Of his men
friends at dinner at the Union Club.
They included w. Earl Dodge, J. Cor
don Douglas, Robert d. Wrenn, Law
renee Waterbury, K. II. Williams, jr,
Ernest Iselin, Eliot c. Bacon, Arthur
Iselin, Charles f. Sands. Sherman Day,
Bertram de N. Cruger, Grafton H. Pyne,
Payne Whitney. Vincent Aston, Guy
Cary, McKim Hollins, George R. Shell
don, Hobart A. II. Baker, William Rhine
lander Stewart, jr., William F. Nc
Combs, J. Searle Barclay, jr., Henry W.
Bull, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Ogden L.
Mills and Robert w. Goelet.
The dance was held in the Marie
Antoinette suite, and the ballroom OF
the suite was transformed to resemble
Japaneee garden. Japanese lanterns
Nere hung about the walls, and the
floral decorations were palms, ferns,
chrysanthemums and wistaria. About
midnight a seated supper was served
in one of the rooms Of the suite, and
during supper Japanese dancers in cos
tune entertained the guests.
About two hundred and fifty were in
vited for the dance, and among them
were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l.. Bacon,
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Hartman, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Mr.. and Mrs. Payne
Whitney, Mr.. and Mrs. Courtlandt
Dixon Barnes. Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent
Aston, Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Randolph,
Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Taylor Pyne, Jr.,
Mr. and Mrs. William Payne Thomp-
son, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Scott Burden,
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, Mr..
and Mrs. william Woodward, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Gray Griswold, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Earl Dodge, Mr.. and Mrs. Rob
ert L. Gerry Mr. and Mrs. Henry W.
Bull, Mr.. and Mrs. j. Gordon Douglas,
Captain and Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mr. and
Mrs. Oliver Iselin, Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, IT,, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Orme Wilson. jr., Mrs. John Jacob As
tor. Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, jr.,
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and Mrs. Stew
cns Sands.
Also, the Misses Anna Sands, Mabel
Gerry, Evelyn Burden, Barbara Ruther-
furd, Elsie Stevens, Mary Pyne, Claire
Bird, Marion Hollins, Carol Hartman,
Ruth Vanderbilt Twombly, Harriette
Post, Mary Cass Garfield, Edith Nor
timer, Angelica Schuyler Brown, Eu-
genia Ladenburg and Theodore La
re cque.
There were also present Robert Goe-
let. Lloyd Warren, c. Gerry Chadwick,
Francis and Maurice Roche. Worthing-
ton Whitehouse. Albert Eugene Gala
tin, Richard Peters, Cyril Hatch, 7.
MarkOe kobertson, Hermann 0elrichs,
Charles H. Marshall, Ashbel II. Barney,
Henry r. Taylor, Charles A. Mum,
Craig Wadsworth, Charles d. Wetmore,
Alfonso de Navarro, r. Thornton Will
son, Williams P. Burden, Hamilton Fish,
jr., Clarence II. Mackay and c. Oliver
Iselin, jr.
The first Of the Three Sherry Dances
for this season was held last night at
Sherry's. Both the large and small
tallrooms were used. the former for
the dancing and the other one for the
supper, which was served shortly after
midnight at small tables. The guests,
many of whom came on from dinners
given by the patronesses, were received
BY Mrs. Edward S. Knapp, Mrs. J. Her
bert Johnston and Mrs. h. Ogden
Chisolm. The other patronesses are
Mrs. John Z. Alexander. Mrs. Henry Z.
Coe. Mrs. Richard c. Colt, Mrs. Carl
A. de Gersdorf. Mrs. Charles NJ.
Chapn, Mrs. Columbus 0D. Iselin.
Mrs Dradish Johnson, Mrs. Louis B.
McCagg. Mrs. William Bard McVicksr,
Mrs. Pierre Mali. Mrs. J. Pierpont
Morgan, jr., Mrs. Walter G.. 0akman.
Mrs. william j. Schieffelin, Mrs. Hiram
W. Sibley and Mrs. Henry G. Trevor
Among those who gave dinners were
Mrs Robert r. Livingston, at IL Wash
ington Square North, for Miss Eliza
beth S. Howard. the debutante daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Thomas II. Howard; Mrs 7.
Hunt Talmage, for her daughter, Miss
Lillian Hunt Talmage. at the Colony
Club; Mrs. Charles II. Marshall, for
her niece, Miss Isabella Banks Taylor;
Mrs. Richard A. Peabody. for her
daughter, Miss Constance Peabody;
Mrs. Pierre Mali, Mrs. II. de Berkeley
Parsons and Mrs. Lawrence Greer. for
her daughter, Miss Dorothy Greer.
Among those at the dance were Mr..
and Mrs. Rowland S. Davis, Miss Grace
jenkins. Miss Audrey Hoffman, Miss
Irene Langhorne Gibson, Miss Ethel
Potter, Miss Nancy Perkins. Miss
Zabriskie, Miss Betty Carson, Miss
Marjorie and Miss Eugenie Rand, Miss
Josephine de Gersdorff, Miss Augusta
Loorah, Robert r. Livingston, Elliot
Cross, Fahys Cook, Thomas Harris,
Shipper Davis, Fisher Goodhue, John
ston Redmond. William Carlton and
De Coursey Fales.
Two tea dances were given for debu-
tantes yesterday at Sherry's. Mrs
Philip B. Jennings, Of 27 West Fiftieth
Street, gave one in the tapestry room
to introduce her daughter, Miss Eliza
beth Jennings. In the receiving party
were Mrs. Edwin Stevens, Miss Helen
Wilkinson, of Providence; Miss Char
lotte Plat. Miss Gertrude Murray, Miss
Madge Lesher, Miss Aileen Sedgwick,
Miss Peggy Rathbone, Miss Madeleine
Sedgwick, Miss Marian Townsend, Miss
Grace Colgate, Miss Katherine 0lcott,
Miss Hope Williams. Miss Dorothea
Camp. Miss Irene Langhorne Gibson,
Miss Ethel Simmons, Miss Hope Col
pate and Miss Esther Auchincloss
Mrs. Jennings will give a luncheon for
her daughter on December II.
The other was given by Mrs. Edward
Winslow Packard for her daughter,
Miss Muriel Cakes. Receiving with
Mrs. Packard and her mother were
Mrs. Charles Morse. of California; Mrs
William Farnham. Miss Madeleine
Carey. Miss Marion Carey Dinsmore,
Miss Marian Perry. Miss Angelina
Krech, Miss Adelaide Flint, Miss Sarah
Larkin, Miss Elizabeth Lasell, Miss
Helen Barrett, Miss FloreRce Lincoln
and Miss Rosamund Lancaster. There
was a dinner for the receiving party
after the reception. Mrs. Packard will
give a large theatre party tonight for
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