New-York tribune., 1919-12-05
Dance Tonight at the Ritz
Carlton To Be Preceded
by Many Dinners for
Younger Set Members
Miss Alice Thayer a Bride
Blue Bird Campaign Will Be
Started To-day at Tea by
Mrs. W. X. Vanderbilt .Jr.

Miss Alice r. Thayer, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin B. Thayer, was
married to Maynard c. Ivison, son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Ivison. IL West
Forty-eighth Street, yesterday after
noon at the home Of her parents, 46
East Eighty-ninth Street. Only rela-
tlves and few intimate friends were
present at the ceremony, which was
performed by the Rev. Father Mangin
of st. Patrick's Cathedral. A large
reception followed at the Hotel St.
Regis. The bride, who walked to the
temporary altar, of palms, ferns and
cut flowers, with her father. was in a
gown of white satin, trimmed with
lace. Her veil was of old point lace,
an heirloom of the family, and it was
She carried a shower bouquet of white
orchids and lilies of the valley.
Miss Marie Thayer was her sisters
maid of honor and another sister, Mrs.
Douglas Gibbons. was the matron of
honor. The other attendants were
Mrs. Reginald Hutchinson; Miss Kath-
crime Hutchins, who took the place of
Mrs Robert C. Myles jr., who was i'll
and unable to attend; Miss Sarah
Townsend, of Wilmington, and Miss
Katharine Dwight Porter. The bride s
two sisters were in blue taffeta and
chiffon, with mauve sashes, and the
other attendants were dressed in Law
ender chiffon and taffeta and wore
blue sashes. They wore blue tulle hats
and carried lavender and blue dwarf
chrysant themums.
Arthur Crundon served as Mr.. wi
sons best man and the ushers were
Douglas Gibbons, Sterling Ivison, q
cousin of the bridegroom; Robert Hol-
den, Oliver James, Walter Wolf, r.
Ryland Sizer jr., John English, Oliver
B. James, Walter r, Wolf, Pierrepont
D. Schneider and Robert F. Holden.
Mr.. Ivison was graduated from Yale,
class 'l8 and served one year overseas
He and his bride will live in New York
after an extensive honeymoon trip.
Mrs. D. Hunter McAlpin entertained
at luncheon at the Colony Club yes
terday for her debutante daughter,
Miss Gerald H. McAlpin, and Miss
Margaret Strong, a granddaughter of
John d. Rockefeller. The guests in
cluded Miss Sylvia Hllhouse, Miss
Constance Jennings, Miss Katherine T.
Keogh, Miss Katharine Knapp, Miss
l;
Miss Polly Lincoln. Miss Laura Mabon.
Miss Ruth Manierre, Miss Elizabeth
A van A Manning, Miss Myra Fraser.
Miss Margaret De Forest. Miss Mary
Hardness Flagler Miss Sophie Duer,
Miss Juliette Bartlett. Miss Marion
Hodenpyl, Miss Elizabeth Whiting.
Miss Martha Jarman, Miss Helen Cum
mings, Miss Elizabeth Clark, Miss
Katharine B. Bliss, Miss Clara Work
um, Miss Alice Marden, Miss Katherine
B. Porter, Miss Katherine Van Ingen.
Miss Virginia Van Ingen, Miss Grace
Vanderbilt, Miss Margar& Trimble'
Miss Adelaide Kip Rhinelander and
Miss Puth Ogden.
Mrs. Clarence Blair Mitchell gave q
dance last evening at her home, 21
East Eleventh Street, for her debu-
tante daughter, Miss Caroline W.
Mitchell. 1t was for young people and
brought out many OF the seasons girls.
There was general dancing through out
the evening, and this was followed by
a seated supper.
Mrs. R. Stewart Edison gave recep-
ton at her home, S24 West 1O4th Street,
yesterday afternoon to present her
daughter, Miss Cameron Edison. Re-
ceiving with the debutante were Miss
Hope Kingsley. Miss Dorothea Hall and
Miss Lydia Comstock. Mrs. Edison will
give a dance for her daughter at the
Cosmopolitan Club December 20.
The Junior Assembly, which omitted
its dances last year, will resume them
this evening, when the first dance will
be given at the Ritz Carlton. The as
sembly was formerly known as the
Junior Cotillons and is for the
debutantes and others Of the younger
set. On this years committee are Mrs
Richard c. Colt, Mrs. Walter Phelps
Bliss, Mrs. Joseph W. Burden, Mrs
James Byrne, Mrs. Walter B. James.
Mrs. James Gore King, Mrs. Herbert L
Pratt and Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee.
Several dinners will be given this
evening before the Junior Assembly
from which the guests will 60 on to the
dance. One Of the largest will be giver
by Mrs. William ]. Schieffelin at hel
home, S East Sixty-sixth Street. II
will follow a reception which she is
giving this afternoon to introduce hel
daughter, Miss Louise Vanderbilt
Schieffelin. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller
jr. will entertain at dinner or Mr.
Rockefeller's niece, Miss Margaret
Strong, one of the debutantes of the
season. Mrs. Rockefeller will take hel
guests to the Junior Assembly. Mrs
B. Ogden Chisolm will give dinner
for her daughter. Miss Betty Chisolm
and, like Mrs. George M. Pynchon, wht