The Washington herald., 1920-12-03

SERIES BEGIN
Bachelors to Hold First
Dance Of Fall and Winter
Season Tonight.

NE W ioTths DeS. d ioHhoFfoW
night will usher in the first Of the
bachelor supper dances, which in
the last few years have been grow
ing more and more in favor with
the younger married set. despite the
fact the organizers have thus far
sidestepped the altar. A number Of
women, including Mrs. Vincent As
tor, Mrs. Howard Cushing. Mrs. w.
X. Vanderbilt H., Mrs. Charles Dana
Gibson, Mrs. Ernest Iselin, Mrs.
Whitney Warren, Mrs Harry Payne
whitney and Mrs. Henry Rogers
Winthrop, are to assist the bachelor
committee which Is composed of
such well known unattached young
gentlemen as Richard Peters, Percy
r. Pyne I'd. Alfonso De Navarro,
William Rhinelander Stewart, jr,
Horace Stebbins. Frederick Stevens
Allen, Hamilton Fish, jr., and Frank
w. Crowninshield.
a dispatch from the other side
announces the return of the De
Cartier De Marchiennes to the
Belgian Legation in Washington.
They will arrive here in a few days.
Washington made much of the De
Marchiennes when they took up their
residence there. and 1t is to be hoped
New York will see something Of
them this season.
The older members Of the Newport
set will be glad to learn that Mr..
, and Mrs. Charles +. Richardson are
hA
married life in this city, having
taken an apartment at the Hotel
Netherland.
! They spent last winter at the Ho-
/ tel Chatham. going later TO Wash
ington. where they stayed for a
time s!ith Richardson's mother, early
| last spring.
Miss Thacker May Brown. daugh-
! ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. f. n. Brown, of
s22 West End avenue. will be mar
ried to William II. Selden, jr., of
Iron River. Mich. this evening in
the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
west End avenue and Ninety-frst
street. A reception will follow at
the Plaza
Miss Kate Darlington. daughter
of Bishop and Mrs. James Henry
Darlington, who made lhcr unof-
I ficial debut as maid OF honor at her
brothers wedding to Dorothy Stone
Smith short time ago. will be
formally presented by her parents
on December 80 at a dinner at the
! Ritz Carlton.
In the Lady Chapel of st. Pat
| rick's Cathedral Miss Marie II.
Glover, daughter of Mrs. Walter Il.
Glover. of this city and Louisville,
KY. was married at noon today to
Joseph the Marquis de la Tourette,
lof France. son OF the late Marquis
Emmanuel de La Tourette, of the
! Province of Arbeche.
A series of subscription dances,
! known as the Seniors, will be re-
Nived during the season and will be
held at the Plaza on January 81.
February % and April s. Mrs. ].
Horton !. James is in charge.
Mrs. William H. woodin OF 55e
Park avenue. after having married
her older daughter to Ollin f. Har-
vey few weeks ago, will undertake
to launch her second hopeful, Miss
Elizabeth Woodin, at a dance given
at the Plaza on the night of Decem-
Der %.
Announcement has been made of
the engagement of Miss Adele Mead.
daughter of Willis T. Mead, of
Greenwich. Conn, and New York, to
Leonard T. Hendrick. of 5l2 West
l3Sth street, New York. Miss Mead.
who is descendant of the late Isaac
]. Mead. served in the Third District
Naval Headquarters during the war.
Hendrick was in the 137th Engineers
Depot in Washington during that
period.