Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-18
DANCES FEATURED
DURING HOLIDAYS I
The Social Whirl Merrily Be-
gins With the Academy Dance
Tomorrow Evening

mas holidays includes events interest
ing to all ages this season, with dances
in the lead of 1ebutante parties. din
ners, concerts and informal card mat
inees.
College students are coming home
every day now. and they shed glad
ness everywhere. Many of them will
attend the ninth annual dance of the
Academy held tomorrow evening in
the old gymnasium gaily trimmed"
where Edward Lapp, William C.
Bruce, Frank Payne. Jr., John Troup.
Lane S. Hart, Jr., Dana Gurnett, Ed
win 5. Herman, Jr, and II. Gilmore
Smith of the committee of arrange
ments. will give all a hearty welcome.
The Kitty Cheatham recital under the
direction of the Wednesday club will
also be an event of Tuesday evening.
The Seller school chorus has invited
the parents of the students to attend
the annual Christmas concert in the
school, Wednesday evening and on
Thursday, Jackson Herr Boyd will tell
the men and boys of the Pine Street
Presbyterian church of the American
Ambulance work in France, in which
he served for six months. Mr.. Boyd
Will show a number of pictures taken
The second of the debutantes, Miss
Eleanor Lindsay Etter will make her
formal bow to society Friday after
noon, December %, at the Civic club,
her mother, Mrs. George Edgar Etter,
| presenting her. In the evening, fol-
lowing a dinner to the receiving party,
Mrs. Etter, Miss Eleanor Etter and
Benjamin Franklin Etter are giving
dance in the Civic club ballroom,
Story Telling Hour
Children throughout the city are
| invited to the annual Holiday Story
Hour" of the Story Telling League,
| in the Tech auditorium, Saturday af-
ternoon, December 23, at 2.15 o'clock,
when beautiful tales of the Christmas
season will be told by gifted members
of the club. This is free to school
children.
The University club smoker Satur-
day evening in their rooms at Front
attendance of members and under
graduates who are in town for the
holidays.
Quite a number of couples are
planning Christmas weddings of the
quietest sort and have begged the
Telegraph's social editor to please
don't say a word about us until we
get off on our trip"
Christmas candy will be distribut-
ed from the Executive Mansion as
usual to the children of the city and
there will be family parties. in many
home on Christmas Day. The Col
onial Country club will be open for
dancing Christmas night.
The Governor and Mrs. Martin
Grove Brumbaugh will entertain the
Chinese minister, DR.. Koo, at dinner
at the Executive Mansion, Tuesday
evening. December 26.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Payne will pre-
l,1s.. H..
Payne at dance in Masonic Hall,
Tuesday evening, and prior to the
event Mrs. Philip Taliaferro Meredith
is entertaining at dinner for Miss
Payne and the debutantes. Miss Sara
Cooper is also giving a dinner before
the dance, in compliment to her house
guests, Miss Grace Post, of Hartford,
Conn.,, and Miss Alice Simpson, of
New York, both of whom assisted at
her coming out party last season.
The Marquis club with Clare L.
Miller and Richard Heagy on the COM
mittee of arrangements will dance at
Winterdale that same evening, and the
Sara Lemer orchestra will play.
DIR. Robert f. Speer will address
the Presbyterian Ministerial Associa-
ton of Harrisburg and vicinity and
college men. at a meeting in Pine
Street Presbyterian church, Tuesday
evening, December 26.
The annual banquet of the Delta
chapter Omicron Phi Sigma frater-
nifty will be held in the banquet hall
of the Engineers club, Tuesday even
ing, December 90, with E. Styles Dun
can. of Duncannon, toastmaster. Ralph
Parthemore. of Ninth and Market
streets. is secretary of the banquet
committee.
pleasantly anticipated pleasure of the
holidays is scheduled for Wednesday
evening, December 81, in Winterdale
with Miss Anne Nissley and Miss Mar
garet Boas as hostesses
The Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh
are giving an afternoon reception
Thursday to Ex-president Taft who
will be in the city to address the Penn
sylvania State Educational society.
Mrs. Archibald G. Knisely and Mrs.
Paul Garfield Smith will present Miss
Elizabeth Knisely at an afternoon tea
at the Knisely residence. North Front
street. and will give a dance in the
evening at the Civic club to the debu-
tantes and receiving party. The sew
enth annual University dance with the
Harrisburg club of State college as
hosts will attract a large company
Thursday evening.
First OF Assemblies
The Assemblies are always looked
forward to as chief among the holiday
delights and the first one comes Fri
day, December 20. in Masonic hall.
On the committee of arrangements
are Henry B. Bent, George S. Com
stock, Jr., Carl B. Ely, Henderson Gil
bert. Vance C. Mccormick and Frank
A. Robbins, Jr. Prior to the dance
there will be q number of dinners.
among them one of forty covers with
DR.. John r Culp host at the Harris
burg club. The Yale Dramat per-
formance in the Orpheum will be an
other pleasure of n very full evening
many of the audience going later to
the Triangle dance in Winterdale as
we'll as to the Assembly.
The University club will entertain
the ladies for the first time in the new
clubhouse, at Front and Market
streets, Saturday afternoon, December
80. at The 'Dansant. The Updegroye
orchestra will play and the affair
promises to be a most delightful one.
The Harrisburg Academy has issued
invitations for a smoker in the Uni
versity club Saturday evening and the
younger college set will attend an in
formal dance in the Civic club ball
rooms with Mrs. James Irwin Cham
berlin and Mrs. ]. Austin Brandt,
hostesses for their daughters, Miss
Jean Bosler Chamberlin and Miss EIiz-
abeth Mullen Brandt. both college
girls. The Sara Lemer orchestra will
play.
In Comes the New Year
As has been the custom for MANY