New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-28
500 AT DANCE
FOR DEBUTANTE
Affair for Miss +. Preston
at Sherry's Is Heavily
Attended
RECEPTION IS GIVEN
FOR MISS DEARTH
Mrs. J. Robinson Beard
Entertains at St. Regis
for Daughter

One or the largest dinner dances Of
he season was given last night at
sherry's BY Ralph Preston to intro
duoo his daughter. MISS Evelyn Pres
Ton. Dinner was served for two hun
bred IN ,he tapestry room, and about
three hundred others came in for the
dancing, which took place IN the small
ballroom The debutsnte was assisted
in receiving by Mrs. W. Payne Thomp-
son and Mrs. Lewis s. Thompson.
Among those at the dinner were
Colonel and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph T. Widener, Nr.
and Mrs. August Belmont, Mr.. and MIS-.
Theodore A. Havemeyer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
Goadby Loew. Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, Dir. and Mrs. John W. MIN
turn, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Carnegie
Phipps, Mr. and Mrs. Philip ". Live
more, Mr.. and Mrs James +. D. Lanier,
Mr.. and Mrs Edmund l.. Baylies, Mr..
and Mrs. George +. Baker, jr, Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert D. Pruyn. Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Sampson stevens, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. Gordon Norrie, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Magce.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Morrison Carnegie
Mr.. and Mrs. Austen Gray. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Searle Barclay, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Adams Delano, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Gallstin. Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Bur
den, Mr. and Mrs. Courtlandt j.
Barnes. Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford A. Coch-
ran, Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden Mills, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanley Mortimer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Iselin, Mr.. and Mrs. Bradish g.
johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. William Fitz-
hugh Whitehouse and Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel A. Weldon.
There were also present Mrs. Archl-
bald S. Alexander. Mrs. Sloane Dodge,
Mrs. Edmund Randolph. Mrs. Ogden
Goelet, Mrs. William K Vanderbilt, jr.,
Mrs. Belmont Tiffany. Mrs. Grace
Eaton Schoonmaker. Mrs. Edward Van
Ingen. Miss Marjorie Curtis, Miss Anna
Sands, Miss Muriel Winthrop, Miss
Angelica Schuyler Brown, Miss Ruth
Morgan, Miss Harriette Post. Miss
Ruth Twombly, Miss Gabrielle Warren,
Miss Mimi Scott, Miss Frances Riker,
Miss Mary Wiborg, Miss Mary Pyne,
Miss Audrey Osborn, Miss Ellen Nc
Carter, Miss Eugene Ladenburg, Miss
Helen James, Miss Ethel Borden Har-
riman, Miss Teresa Fabbri. Miss Helen
Hosdley. Miss Sylvester Moran, Miss
Mary Crocker Alexander. Miss Mabel
Gerry, Miss Mary Cass Garfield.
Chester Alan Arthur, James w. Bar
ney, Robert Goelet, Robert Walton
Goelet, Alfonso de Navarro, Anderson
Dana, Oliver Ames, jr., Francis W.
Crowninshield, Williams P. Burden.
Frederick s. Allen, George Muirson
Woolsey, Frederick n. Watriss. W.
Rhinelander Stewart, jr., Thomas
Slidcll, Thomas Markoe Robertson,
Maurice Roche, Richard Peters. George
A. McCook and Charles II. Marshall.
Mrs. Henry Golden Dearth gave a
reception yesterday afternoon at her
home, 1863 Fifth Avenue, to introduce
her daughter. Miss Nina Van Rensse-
laer Dearth. Receiving with Mrs.
Dearth and her daughter were Miss
Alice r. Lawrence, Miss Theodore Tif-
fanny, Miss Lorraine Allen, Miss Dorothy
Dorrell, Miss Annette Moran, MIS-
Adelaide Landon, Miss Dorothy Miller,
Miss Augusta de Forest and Miss Bar
bara Benson. Of Philadelphia.
After the reception Mrs. Dearth en-
tertained the receiving party at dinner,
and afterward took them to see "Miss
Springtime" at the New Amsterdam
Theatre. Later the party went or 10
Miss Evelyn Preston dance at Sher-
rvs. Among the extra guests for the
dinner and theatre party were How
land II. Pell. jr., Henry Booth Camp
hell. Robert Carrere, Coburn Gilman,
John De Witt Peltz, Arthur Griggs,
Russell Bartlett, Julius Speyers, Dud-
ley Mills, Elliott Cobb and Allan Mac
Dougall.
Miss Beth Leary, daughter OF Mrs.
Daniel J. Leary, gave luncheon yes
tcrday at Sherry's for Miss Charlotte
Guve and Miss Beatrice Pynchon. two
Of The seasons debutantes. The lunch
con was served for twenty-five at one
table. which WAS decorated with pink
roses. In the party were Miss Lily
Stehli. Miss Jarvis Wyeth, Miss Hen
rietta Talcott, Miss Beatrice Beck.
Miss Genevieve Clendenin, Miss Bar
bara Hoyt, Miss Marion Danforth, Miss
Geraldine Hall, Miss Alice De Lamar
Miss Evangeline johnson. Miss Iherese
Browning and Miss Elizabeth Chapin.
Mrs. d. Olyphant Haynes gave a
dance last night at her home, II west
Tinetv-fourth Street, for Mr.. and Mrs.
u Oivphant Haynes, jr. who were
married in Baltimore last June, and
Mr. and Mrs. John Trevor Adams
chose marriage took place in Noyem-
her Mrs. Adams was Miss Helen
HAYNES. The dancing began early, ana
at midnight seated supper was
served. ,,;.s
Elise stanton Haynes. Miss Nan 0hso-
,,;ct Miss Dorothy Hart. Miss Helen
Cbanry. Miss Emily Wood, Miss iran
eos Wight. Miss Betty Brace, MISS
catherine Adams, Miss Emily Kent,
ME- Margaret Hutchins, Miss Ella
Vorcban Patterson. Miss Helen Adams,
Avmar Kator, Burling Murray, braolsn
Csrroll. Bradley Fisher, Winthrop
BIeecker. Oakley Brown. Eugene
stevens. Warren Williams, Of Roehes-
ter. and Mr.. McFsdyen, Of Chicago.
Mrs. J. Robinson Beard, OF 5l5 Park
Avenue. gave a dance, followed by sup
per last night in the Louis XVI suite
Of the St. Regis for her daughter, Miss
Beatrice Beard, who will make her
debut next year. Among the $50 young
oconle present were Miss Edith Gould