The New York herald., 1920-12-04
Debutante Dinners
Precede Dance of
Junior Assembly
Hundreds of the Younger Set
Attend Ball at the Ritz
Carlton.

Debutantes and members of their cir
with the first OF the Junior Assemblies
In the Ritz-Carlton. These assemblies.
of which there will be another this sea-
son and to which mothers of the debu-
tantes or other members of the young
set of society subscribe. are the sue
cessors of the Junior Cotillons directed
for several years by Mrs. Arthur M
Dodge
When the subscribers and their guests
reached the ballroom. many OF them
from large preceding dinners. they
formed an assembly of several hundred
persons. with the Younger element pre-
dominating In the distribution of in
vitations debutantes of last year were
not forgotten.
The largest of the dinners were given
by Mrs. Walter b. James, Mrs. D. Hun
ter McAlpfn and Mrs. T. Tileston Wells
Mrs James's dinner was for her debu-
tante niece, Miss Annie Burr Auchln-
Gloss. daughter of Mrs Hugh D. Auchin-
Gloss, who was introduced to society by
her mother during the afternoon. Among
others at the dinner. which was in the
home of DR.. and Mrs. James, East
Seventieth street, were the Misses Eliza
beth Lee Dodge, Emily S. Hammond
Isabel Rockefeller Katharine and
Eleanor Hurd, Evelyn Loew, Constance
Jennings. Eunice James. Gertrude San
ford. Elsie Parsons, Dorothy Newton
Sharp, Marian Farr, Mary Van r. Cogs'
well, Ellen Randolph. Helen l.. S
Trevor, Geraldine Thompson. Laura
Harding, Harriet Pratt, Caroline Prem
tlce and Cornelia Sage, and Messrs. j
Nelson Borland I'd, Herbert l.. Pratt
Jr., Roger Tuckerman, Thomas N. Nc.
Carter. Jr. Godfrey Rockefeller, Oliver
b. Jennings, Edward Wallace, Quincy
Cabot. Leonard Cushing. Churchill
Peters, John Clark, Thomas Avery and
Thomas H. Howard
The dinner given by Mrs. T. Tilestor
Wells in the Colony Club was for hel
daughter. Miss Georgina Lawrenc,
Wells. There were two tables and a
one were seated besides the host ant
hostess Mr.. and Mrs. Harris FahnestocIS
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wells. Mrs. Wolc Of
Johnson of Boston and Mr. Andrew A
Bibby. At the other table were the
Misses Marion Taylor. Betty Barber
Isabella Wood. Katharine G. Rogers
Elizabeth b. Mosle, Katharine Sanford
Frances Isham. Juliette d. Longfellow
Wanden Mathews. Katharine Sharpe
Rosamond Johnson of Boston and Mar.
Earet w. DAWSON and MesSrS. IL. Toe
Rulkley. Langhorne Gibson. Harrison
NcMichael. J.-Sanford Saltus. Jr. +; VIII.
lam Lyon. Robert Miller. Lea Luquer
r.. Morgan Lott Daniel Moran, A. Brad
hurst Field. Jr. e. r. Perry and Court
landt Schuyler Van Rensselaer,. Jr.
Mrs. McAlpin's dinner was given nj
the R'tz-Carlton and 1t was for hel
daughter Miss Geraldine McAlpin. The
guests included the Misses Margaret d,
Forest, Virginia Van Ingen, Mary E
Marouand and Georgianna K Palmer
and Messrs Richar1 v. Lindabury, TT.
Minto0 lie Roy Frederick S. Polhemus
Curtis o. D. Dali. John NJ. Harlan. ]
De Witt PeltZ and Lawrence Seymour.
Mrs Walter Phelps Bliss. Mrs. Jame'
Gore King and Mrs. Herbert L. Satter
Ice. representing the subscribers, re
ceived the guests at the entrance OF tn,
ballroom, which with the foyer wa.
decorated with palms. ferns and pinl
and white chrysanthemums At mid
night supper was served In the nsair
restaurant there being two large table.
for the subscribers and committee Will,
guests sat about small tables. Arranging
their own parties. Afterward dancinf
was resumed.