New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-25
HISS PALMER'S
ENGAGEMENT OUT
First of Seasons Debu-
tanteS to Have a Formal
Announcement.
WILL BECOME BRIDE
OF II. &. r. STEERS
Big Supper Dance for Her-Mrs
4. W. Burchard Gives Din.
ner for Miss Mckee.

Miss Lillian A. Palmer has the dis
tinction Of being the first OF this sea-
sons debutantes to have formal an
nouncemcnt made Of her engagement.
Her bctro-hal 10 Henry G. r. Steers
was made known last night By her par
onts, Mr.. and Mrs. George Quintard
Palmer. Of East Seventy third Street,
at tho largest and most brilliant dance
Of the winter. given Dy Mr.. and Mrs.
Palmer at ShcrrY's. Nr. Steers is n
son Of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steers, Of
- Fast Thir'y-eiehth street.
The dance was held ~ the large ball
room. which was decorated with cedar
trees, trimmed with hundreds of small
coiorcd electric lights. palms. holly,
poirscttis and Christmas greens
stretched across the cciIiHg in which
"ore hidden tiny electric lights. There
wcro two orclcsuas which played
from ten O'Clock until daylight this
morning. Several dinners preceded
the dance. supper was served shortly
after midnight. and about four O'Clock
a breakfast Of bouilon. waffles and
scrambled eggs was served The en-
tire second floor was used for the sup
per and breakfast
Among the seven hundred guests
were Miss Mercer French. Miss Fred
erica Bull, Miss Adrienne VI. Iselin.
Miss Hope Williams. Miss JOY vii
liamr. Miss Geraldine Adee. Miss
MauGe O BrieG, Miss Margaret Thomp-
son. Miss Madeleine Carey. Miss Mar
carot Erhsrt, Miss Elise French Rice,
Miss Katharine de Berkeley Parsons.
Miss Dorothy Greer Miss Priscilla
Peabody, Miss Al,aa de Gersdorf. Miss
MadEe LCshor, Miss Marie Johnson,
Miss Olivia Eramarn. Miss Florence
Gilbert, Miss Kathleen Macy. Miss
Helen Porter. Miss jeanette Blake.
Miss Julia Edey, Mss Mary Alexan-
deJ, Miss Alexandra Emery, Miss Helen
Flake. Miss Charlotte Plat. Miss Car
ANAL Carroll. Hiss Lilly Rupert, Miss
Adelaide ScGCwick. Miss Aileen Sodg-
wick, Miss Dorothy Howard, Miss
MJr.cl Wiggiu, Miss Gladys Fries Miss
Euuice Clapp. Miss adele Prindle.
Miss Dorothy Howard, Miss Diana
Richards, Miss Isabel Ieomans, Miss
Marion Townsend. Miss Adellne Brech,
Virginia Kimball, Miss Margaret War
rem. Miss Uilda Holmes, Miss Violet
Gordon King Miss Maud T.. Kahn, Miss
Elizabeth Jennings, Miss Mary Jen-
uings and Miss Virginia Kimball
There were also present john H..
French, ir. Richard Keogh, Amory
Haskell, Breton yelling, Malcolm
Stevenson. Maury II. B. Paul. Stuyves-
ant Wainwright, Charles Sabin, jr..
Horace Stebbins, John Curtis, Perry
BeadlcstOn, Albert Johnson, Andrew
Fletcher, Frederic Coudcrt, jr, Charles
yelling. Maynard lvison. Darlington
Stettiuius, Warren Kunhardt Warren
Pond Edgar Allan Poe. I. Hunt Tai
mage. Brewster Prirdle, Murray Tay-
Tor, Godfrey Taylor. Z. Chesiey Rich
ardsOn. Wallace Fleming. Cecil Stat
tord. Gordon Abbott, Hugh Cotton,
Frederic lnm2u, Charles lnman. Dean
kalbiiesch, Edward lie Roy, William
Leith, Frederick Lincoln, Christopher
Greer, Henry L. Coo. j., Roland Har-
riman, Allan Hartman. Harry Cushing,
Sd, J. Rich steers, ir., Frederick Gun
nngham, COster Steers, Juan Ceballos,
Coster SchermerhOrG. Morgan O'Brien.
Edmund Nash. Vivian Palmeri, Liv
ingston Parsons, Sidney Dillon Ripley,
William Rockefeller, Livingston Par
sons and Justus Rupert.
Mrs. Arson Wood Burchard gave a
dinner last night at her home, 81 East
SiXty-fourth Street, for Miss Harriet
Mckee, the debutante daughter Of Mrs.
Sutton Mckee. After dinner Mrs.
Burchard took her guests, eighteen in
number, 10 see princess Pat at the
Cort Theatre. and afterward to
Sherry's for the dance given by Mrs.
George @. Palmer for her debutante
daughter, Miss Lillian A. Palmer
Mr.. and Mrs. Sherwood Aldrich gave
supper in the Crystal Room Of the
Ritz-Carltop last night Their guests
included Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert II. Gary,
Mr.. and Mrs Arson W. Burchard, Mr..
and Mrs. Fairfax f. Landstreet and
Mr. AMI Mrs. Hamilton Carhart.
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan. Mrs. Og
den Mills Reid. Mrs. William F.. Refs,
Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt. Mrs.
Herbert l.. Satterlee. Mrs. Willard D.
Straight. Mrs Harry Payne Whitney,
Mrs. Paul Morton, Mrs. John A. Lo-
gan. Mrs. Dave II. Morris, Mrs. Henry
z. Gourd. Mrs. DreXel Dahlgren and
Mrs. Hiram Sibley are among those
who will attend the performance in
French Of "Pierrot Puni" and ia
?oup6e &c Nuremberg" which will be
given next Tuesday afternoon, Deem
Der IS, for the benefit of the Janson
dc Sally Hospital, Paris.
Tinar Linden. the celebrated Danish
tenor: Greta Torpadie, Emile De Varny
and Orphec Langevin are among the
artists who will tax" part. Maestro
Arnaldo Cont, Of the Boston Opera
Comparv. will condrct. and Mr.. Lin
den will be assisted b. William +.
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