New-York tribune., 1919-12-30
Holiday Week of Dinners,
Receptions, Parties and
Dances Will Be Given in
Honor of the Younger Set
Miss Bliss Makes Bow
Mrs. Denckla Announces
Engagement of Daughter
to lie Grand B. Cannon

Another weeks round of social
cayety began yesterday yith dances
and receptions for the debutantes, q
holiday dance for the juniors, and sew
4rsI other affairs. Mrs. Walter Phelps
Bliss gave small dinner dance at her
home, East Eighty Street,
last night for her debutante daughter,
Miss katherine p. Bliss. The dinner
was one Of eighty covers, and. like
the dancing which followed. was for
the Younger set. seated supper was
s-rved from midnight on
Three dances were given last evening
At the Plaza for some of the younger set.
Mrs. Henry Eugene Meeker gave one in
The new ballroom for her son, John R.
Meeker The supper was served in the
main dining room. Dinners were given
before the dance by Mrs. Bertram II.
Borden. Mrs. Rowland Davis and Mrs.
Richard Hurd. all of whom took their
gue,ts to Mrs. Meekers entertainment.
In the large ballroom Mrs. Otto Q.
Helnze gave dance to introduce her
daughter. Miss Ada L. Heinze. 1t was
attended by about four hundred Of the
louueNl sN1. NeSeiNiiR Win tne
debutante were Miss Edna Hoyt, Miss
Emma Peabody and Miss Ada Worden,
% London.
Dance for Miss Strong
The third dance was small one in
re Rose Room, given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward A Strong for Miss Betty A.
Strong.
The Christmas dance of Miss Robin
son's Wednesday Senior Class was
-iven last evening at the Ritz Carlton
md brought out number of the future
le0utantes. 1t was under the patronage
Il Mrs. Robert S. Brewster, Mrs. James
Bvrne. Mrs. Joseph c. Baldwin jr., Mrs
Everett Colby, Mrs. Tracy Dows, Mrs
T. Nagee Ellsworth, Mrs. Joseph II.
Aoa.e jr.. Mrs. Goodhue Livingston,
Nrs Payne Whitney, Mrs. Z. N. Potter,
Nrs William c. Potter, Mrs. David
1nsey. Mrs. Lewis Iselin, Mrs. W.
neLsncey Kountze, Mrs. W. Z. s. Girls
void. Mrs. Norris Kellogg, Mrs James
Ludlow and Mrs. Lewis Gouverneur
iorris. For many years the Wednes-
lay Senior, like all of Miss Robinson s
'Acr classes, met at Sherry's.
Hardness Christmas Party
Mrs Edward s. Harkness gave q
aarning Christmas party yesterday
afteruoon st her home, | East Seventy
tth Street. where she entertained
slSty-fve children from the Profes-
sional Chldren's School at 220 West
olty-sixtn Street. There was big
nristmas tree for the young guests,
aden with gifts of all kinds--toys,
isndies and useful things-and a ma
riciaa afforded them no end of amuse-
l.
.he distribution of presents and there
AS dancing.
Ns larAnes5 is ono of the most
ictive members of the board Of man
gers of the school, and Mrs. j Clifton
d.aT is chairman of the committee in
eharge of 1t.
Ms. Howard D. Collins gave re-
eption yesterday afternoon at her
.ome. $50 Park Avenue, to present her
laughter. Miss Dorothy Collins. Re
ewing with tho debutanto were Miss
llive Gawtry, Miss Virginia Van Ingen,
Miss Mary Harkness Flsgler. Miss
Mary Thomas. Miss Katharine Sharpe,
Miss Margaret De Forest, Miss Gera]-
dine McAlpin and two Boston girls,
Miss Polly Proctor and Miss Eleano nor
Jackson. The reception was followed
BY a dinner. from which Mrs. Collins
ook her guests TO Mrs. Walter Phelps
Bliss's dance. Those at the dinner in
addition to the girls already men
ioued. were Miss Marion G. Clifford
Miss Mary Appleton, Miss Phyllis
sacnellor, Miss Currie Duke Mathews
iiss Routh Ogden, Miss Wilhelmine
Ruperti, Louis Faugeres Bishop jr.
William NJ Studdiford jr., Benjam
K. kittredge jr., George Churchill
Nadsworth Dunn, Bradford Norman
r., Dexter Hawkins. Frederick Brnke