New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-22
DR.. and Mrs. Biggs Enter.
tain Debutante and
Their Daughter
NANCY X. PERKINS
TO BE Welded FEB. 7
viii Be Married to H. Mar
shall Field in Mrs.
GibSOn's Home


debutante daughter, Mise Margaret
Van b. Mason. The small ballroom
suite YVES used and supper was served
shortly after midnight in the tapestry
room. The decorations consisted OF
hanging baskets Of poinsettia, smilax
and Christmas greens.
The guests were received by Mrs
Mason, by the debutAnte, and Miss
Elizabeth Whiting, Of Boston. Two
orchcstras played for the dancing and
an Hawaiian orchestra furnished the
music during supper.
The dance was preceded by a dinner
given RI the Colony Club by DR.. and
Mrs. Hermann NJ. Biggs, for Miss
Mason and for their daughter, MISS
Katharine f. Biggs. After the dinner
the guests were taken TO see Cheating
Creators" and later to Miss Mason
dance at Sherry's.
Miss Nancy Keene Perkins. OF Rich-
mond. will be married TO Henry Mar
at the home OF her aunt, Mrs. Charles
Dana Gibson, l27 East Seventy-third
Street. Miss Alice Perkins will he her
sisters maid Of honor. The engage
ment was announced a few weeks ago
bv Miss Perkins's grandfather, ems
well d. Langhorne, Of mirador, Ga.
She was introduced TO society in this
city two years ago at a reception gwen
r.. k.r H. Gibson
Members of the St Christopher
League will give vaudeville this even.
ing at the Plaza, for the benefit or
the New York Nursery and Childs
Hospital. Among those who will take
part are Miss Katherine Culver, Miss
Cecilia Higgins, Miss Katherine Turck,
Miss Adelaide Beddall. Miss Marian
Whitman, Miss Jeanne Montgomery
and Miss Grace Rogers.
The patronesses include Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie. Mrs Ashton c. Clarkson,
Mrs. John y. Stearns, Mrs. John c.
Moore, Mrs. A. Fillmore Hyde, Mrs.
Simeon B. Chaplin and Miss Helen
Hartley Jenkins.
Dr.. and Mrs. ". Seward Webb will
have a house party over Christmas at
their country place at Shelburne, W.
Miss Adeline Townsend, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Allen Townsend, will
be married 70 Edwin T. Fox on jan
uary in St. Thomas's Church. The
bride will be attended by her sisters.
Mrs. Robert G. Winmill and Miss
Marion Townsend; Miss Vouletti I.
Proctor, Miss Ruth Moller, Miss Flor
ence Moberly and Miss Margaret Kemp.
John VI. l.. Rutherfurd will serve as
best man and the ushers will be Cor
nelius and Raymond Fox. Robert c.
Winmill. Robert A. II. Baker, Charles
Hickox, jr., II. Barlow FAIR and Walter
Eaton.
The ceremony will be followed by a
reception at the home Of the brides
parents, 237 Madison Avenue.
Frederick n. Hatch has gone to Flor
ida FOL the Christmas holidays.
Mrs. John Manning Young, of 263
Lexington Avenue, announces the en-
gagement of her daughter, Miss Sophie
Young, TO George Loring Hubbell, jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. George l.. Hub
bell, of Garden City, Long Island Miss
Young made her debut two seasons ago.
Mr. Hubbell was graduated from Will
Jams College in 1915, and is now a stu
dent at the Columbia Law School No
date has been set for the wedding.
Louis F. Holbrook Belts will give a
dinner dance tonight at Sherry's for
his niece. Miss Helen A. Hoadley.
Mrs. Edwin Gould gives theatre
party tonight, followed by dancing
at her home, $50 Fifth Avenue.
Mrs. William II. Browning will give
dance tonight at Sherry's for Miss
Therese Browning.
A dinner dance will be given to-
night at the Hotel Gotham by Mrs.
Herbert II. Dean for her daughter,
Miss Ruth Dean.
The second Of the Bachelor Assem-
bly, dances will be held tonight at
the Hotel Vanderbilt.
Mrs. John W. Dennis gives a din
ner at the Ritz-Carlton this evening,
followed by a theatre party, for her
daughter, Miss Evangeline Brewster
Johnson.
The first Of the Four Dances. for
juniors, arranged by Miss Annabelle
s. ELEPHANT, takes place this evening
at ~ East Forty-ninth Street.
Mrs. James K Hoyt gives dance
tonight at the Ritz-Carlton for Miss
Barbara Hoyt.
Mrs. Frederick Whiting will give a
uf hnp
10 West Forty-seventh Street. for
Miss Margaret Whiting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix n. Doubleday
and Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Doubleday
have arrived in town from Oyster
Bay and are at the Hotel Gotham for
a short stay.
Mrs. William II. Hill. OF Boston,
will be the guest of honor at tea
given this afternoon at the Cosmo-
politan Club. by Mrs G. p. Rowland.
of 1871 East Seventy-eighth Street, and
Miss Rosina Hoyt. of 934 Fifth Ave
nue.. Mrs. Hill, who recently returned
from France. where she devoted two
wears to aiding children from the in
yaded districts OF France and Belgium,
will show slides depicting the condi-
lions OF the frontier children. and will
tell how the homeless little ones are
helped.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Steers gave a
dinner Of twenty-five covers last night
at the Ritz Carlton for their son and
Ssuchter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Coster Steers, who were married Sep
,ember 8. Mrs. Henry Coster Steers
was Miss Lillian A. Palmer.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Oliver Iselin, VINO
have been at the Ritz-Carlton Tor
month. will leave the city to-day for
Aiken, S. c.