New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-30
Debutante'S Mother Gives
Dance for Her at
Sherry's
SKATING CARNIVAL
HELD AT WALDORF
Young Girls Hold First of
Metropolitan Dances
Wedding Plans

Mrs. John Wood Blodgctt gave R din
ner and dance last night at Sherrys
for her debutante daughter, Miss Kath-
airline Cumnock Blodgett. The dinner
was served for ll5 in a room adjoining
the large ballroom, where the dancing
took place. A supper was served IN
the main restaurant after midnight.
The decorations were elaborate, and
consisted Of bay trees, orange trees
szaless and smilax. Mr.. and Mrs
Blodgett and their daughter received
tho guests at the entrance to the bali
room.
The dinner guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur J. Cumnock, Mr.. and Mrs
Victor J. Cumnock, Mrs. Lloyd Bowers
Miss Ethel Borden Hartman, Miss
Grace +. Cumnock, Miss Juliana Cut
ting, Miss Eleanor Cabot, Miss Helen
p. Clsrkson. Miss Jeanette Jennings
Miss Jeanne Gourd. Miss Constance
De Lanoy, Miss Katharine +. Blggs'
Miss Harriet ?. Cheney. Miss Kath-
arine R. Haven. Miss Ulrica Dahlgren,
Miss Dorothy Adams Dunn. Miss kliz
abeth Emmett. Miss Teresa Fabbri'
Miss Pauline Disston, MISS Polly
Damrosch. Miss Maria de Barril, Miss
Harriet Fessenden, Miss Anstiss De
Veau. Miss Eleanor Rabbit. Miss Ger
aldine Fitzgerald Adee. Miss Barbara
Allen, Miss Margaret Carnegie, MISS
Mary s. Colt, Miss Frances Pearsali
Field. Miss Agnes RoudeDush, MISS
Adelaide Wlmerding, Miss Nina Ryan
Miss Evelyn Preston, Miss Murel WI
let. Miss Alice Seabury, Miss Elizabeth
Remsen. Miss Maryanna Lincoln. Miss
Elaine Scherer. Miss Margaret Mason
Miss Clara Lee and Miss Caroline
Knapp.
There were also at the dinner Philip
Kip Rhinelander, |. Newton Rae
Charles f. Coster Steers, Reynal de 81.
NJ. Thebaud, Reginald I. Townsend
James A. Burden, jr.. Cass Canneld;
Stoddard Hoffman. John WOOD
B,odgett, jr., COLES Coe, Morris Nc
Kim Pryor. f.. Pennington Pearson,
Frederic Stevens Allen. Stanley Nc
Grsw, Norvin Hewitt Green, Vernon h.
Brown. Hunter van B. Berg. James
Barnes, ". X. Bond Emerson, jr., Will
Jam Platt. Frederic R. Coudert IT,
Hamilton Coolidge. Hermann G. Place,
William T. Preston. Donald ". Lamb,
Thomas Archer Morgan and Harcourt
Amory, jr. -,
Among the several hundred add
tional guests who came in for the
dancing were Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan
Belmont. Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony J..
Drexel. IT., Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. DreTel
Biddle, jr.. Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick y.
Dalziel. Mr.. and Mrs. J. Frederic Tams,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Whitewright Watson.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederick ]. Freling-
huysen. Mr.. and Mrs. Goelet Gallstn,
Mr.. and Mrs. Norrie Sellar, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. Csrley Hartman. Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Low Bacon, Mr.. and Mrs. Jorge
Andre. Mr.. and Mrs. VI. Orme Wilson.
ir.. Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt, jr,
Mrs. Grace Eaton Schoonmaker, Miss
Mabel Gerry. Miss Grace Bristed, Miss
Ina Kissel. Miss Susan Fish Dresser,
Miss Penelope Sears. Miss Hope Will
Jams, Miss Jarvis Wyeth, Miss Mary
Croker Alexander. Miss Rita Norrle,
Miss Marian Van K. Kennedy, Miss
Helen NJ. Rives and Miss Camella Nor
Also Harvey s. Ladew, Maurice
Roche. Alfonso de Navarro, Lloyd War
rem, James w. Barney. Chester G. Bur
den. Irving Paris, I'd, Albert Morris
Bagby. Albert Grosvenor, II. Gallatin
Pell. Lewis l. Delafeld, jr, Foxhall
Keene Taylor. william VI. Evarts,
Thomas Slidell. Roger Tuckerman.
Hugh d. Auchncloss, Richard Peters,
stephen r. Elkins. Roderick Terry, irp
Alessandro Fabbri. Oliver Bird James,
Percy Il. Pyne, I'd, Lester Armour,
ODonnell Iselin. Alexander VI. Had
den and Schuyler l.. Parsons. jr.
In the new Winter Garden on the
roof OF the Waldorf Astoria there was
held last night n carnival of skatiDs
and dancing given under the auspices
Of the Junior Auxiliary of the National
Organization Of Catholic Women. The
carnival included an exhibition OF
fancy skating in costume. in which lrv-
inc Brokaw, Maurice Roche. Francis
Roche and others took part, and an
amateur skating competition IN walt
inc. The pictures shown were those
taken last summer in New Rochelle Of
Mrs. John Giraud Agar's garden party
and a garden party given in Southamp-
ton by Mrs. Francis Burial Hoffman
There was also film comedy entitled
"1n and Out OF Rye" performed by the
young people of Rye, under the leader
ship Of Miss Estelle Mulqueen.
On the committee in charge OF the
entertainment were Miss Grace Bris-
ted, Miss Henrietta Talcott. Miss Claire
Van Lennep, Miss Margaret Phillips,
Miss Resale Bloodgood, Miss Harriet
Lummis, Miss Helen Byrne. Miss
Therese Browning, Miss Gertrude Dam
rosch. Miss Marion Tiffany, Miss Polly
Il. Damrosch. Miss Aileen Sedgwick
Miss Ulrica Dahlgren and Miss Ade-
lside Sedgwick.
The first Of the Metropolitan Dances.
a subscription series organized for
girls sixteen and seventeen years OF
age. was held last night at Sherrys.
There are seventy subscribers. and
each one invites two men TO the dances
Dinners were given before the dance
by Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs.
Walter b. James. Mrs. Stephen Pea
body, Mrs. Henry VI. Tilford, Mrs.
Julian T. Davies, Mrs Samuel Auch-
muty Tucker, Mrs. W. Goadby Loew.
Mrs. Shepard de Forest, Mrs. Walter
Phelps Bliss. Mrs. James Byrne. Mrs.
William Temple Emmett. Mrs. Charles
A Miller and Clarence II. Mackay.