Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-03
NANCY WYNNE GIVES RESUME
OF THE WEEKS HAPPENINGS
An Unusually Brilliant Calendar Marks Incoming of
the New Year-Numerous Festivities Large
and Small Occupy Society

r,vHE gaieties of the midwinter sea-
/ lon came upon us with full force
a. veek. perhaps because the very
,,no set home for the holidays added
=, N the parties, but each day was
/ -.,,,ded with brilliant events, from
,se Benedicks' ball following the
..,sra on Tuesday evening to the New
yaor,s Eve festivities, among which
A.. George wharton Peppers ball and
.he much talked-of Hecltsher party at
..o pellevue- Stratford were the most
s.sriruous. The holidays ended Of
ao,oIlv on Saturday night-or shall we
,av Sunday morning-with Mrs. SCotts
eunper Club, for some 900 or more of
,ha very smart set drifted in there to
aonce Mt midnight. The club met in
,he rose gardens, which were con-
verted into a charming fairyland for
The occasion. The walls were hung
,e,tb smilax from which twinl<led hun
arods of yaricolored electric lights, and
down each side were placed rows Of
hav and fir trees, giving a most fes-
tive appearance.
Those who arrived late were forced
N content themselves with tables set
outside in the lobby. There was an
,nusual number of debutantes present
and also several of the recent brides.
An interesting group at one table in
ciuded Gurnee Mum and his hand
some bride, Marie Louise Wanamaker
that was, also her cousin, Brownie
warburton. The Roddy Pages, who
returned from their honeymoon in time
"a spend the Christmas holidays with
Mrs. Kremer. made their appearance
early In the evening with two members
of their bridal party CeCile Howell and
Saunders Meade. In fact, almost the
whole Kremer wedding group seemed
TO be present, as the Shpley DiNons,
the Heckscher Wetherills, the Munns
and the Spencer Millers were all dane
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred +. Norris
gave a party for their daughter, Miss
Dorothy, who dances with such un-
usual grace. Another interesting group
included the Howard Pancoasts. who
had as their guests Mr.. and Mrs. Will
son Miles Carey, of Baltimore. Miss
Betty Scott had party of young peo-
pie, including Josephine Foster, Kath-
crime Seeler, Gertrude Pancoast, Agnes
Brocl,ie and Catherine Cassard. Among
those who occupied tables were Mr.
and Mrs. ]. r. Evans Roberts, Mr. and
Mrs Archibald BarSlie, Mr.. and Mrs.
"Ned" Page, the Ned" Grocer the
Philemon Dckinsons, who have had
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynford Dickinson, of
New York. as their guests for the
weekend; Mr.. and Mrs. George Sharp
Munson, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Null
ford, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Mcleod,
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Emlen Hutch
nson and Mrs. Walter Steele, the
Churchill Williams, the Lewis Neil
sons, the Charles Potter, Jr's, the
Saunders, Heath Barnard, Jr., Mrs.
Robert w. Downing, the Cecil Filters
and the Myers Filters, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harlow Voorhees,, the Harrison Gamers,
the welderseims, the Isaac Schlicters
and the Gazzams.
Popular little Molly Thayer will be
given a theatre party and supper at
! the Ritz Carlton this evening by the
William Linton Landreths, who will
have a number of the younger set as
their guests, including Miss Charlotte
Eleanor Pepper Miss Elizabeth w.
Griffith. Miss Eleanor de G. Cuyler.
Miss Charlotte NJ. Cheston, Miss Marie
T. Graham, Miss Alfredo c. Lewis,
Miss Sarah S. Myers, Miss MarGaretta
d. Myers, Miss Aimee Hutchinson Mr..
Joseph T. Thayer and Mr.. Rodney N.
Landreth. Agnes Brockie is another
bud who will be feted this evening, as
the William Wilson Curtins are giving
a theatre and supper party for her.
The engagement of Miss Margaret
Gladys Marks, of New York, to our
own Henry Rawle Geyelin will prove
interesting to Philadelphians, even
though they both make their home in
New York. Doctor Geyelin, who is a
graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania, class of 1905. spent several
years doing postgraduate work in
Berlin, and is now member of the
medical faculty of Columbia Univer-
sity. He is a son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Laussat Geyelin, of Villanova
Miss Marks, who is a sister of Julian
Marks, who married Nancy Hollings-
worth last year in London, makes her
home with her sister, Miss Adah Marks,
at 1873 West 11th street, New York.
NANCY WINNIE