The New York herald., 1920-01-04
More Lesurely Routine To BE Followed Until Checked by
Lent-Many Thousands of Dollars Spent and
Large Sum Raised for Charity

started at the middle of November and
dred parties of varying magnitude for
forty-two days UP to last night has sub
sided. to the regret of more than one
hundred OF the new girls and twice that
number of older sisters and young men.
The quieter routine days of January have
come, to the confessed relief of parents.
who may however, find consolation in the
knowledge that social duties unequalled
in extent in the past were well performed.
This exceptional debutante period has
been potent factor in the economic life
Of New York II il were possible 10 pre-
sent exact statistics, facts and figures' OF
the social process OF making debutantss
into young women of society by means of
formal presentations. even the originators
OF the hundreds of dinners. luncheons,
theatre and tea parties, dances and balis
would be surprised. great many tnou-
sands OF dollars have been placed in cir
culation, and several hundred persons
such essential helpers as walters, COOKS.
musicians. professional entertainers and
florists-duriug the forty days OF merrl-
nent were kept in constant employment.
Advancing with this army of youthtul
r,errymakers was the banner OF charitS' ;
which thus far has been umfuried AT more
than twenty entertainments IN wnich tne
tireless debutanteS were concerned. it mas
been estimated conservativeiy that more
than $4,000 was earned for charity durlns
tho rerfervid days of the first half OF
the winter season. On two successive
nichts-the Blue Bird Ball and the prem
iere of ''The Blue Bird in the Metro
politan Opera House-fully $4,000 resulted
for charitable projects.
cuieter routine will be observed from
). H. Ar1
lS. brings a complete change in the social
outlook. Easter Sunday will fall on
April e.
Early January Parties.
While few more young women viii
make their debuts this week, several OF
the more important incidents in society
win be for the older set, such as dance
which Mrs. William Il. Vanderbilt Jr..
will give tomorrow night in her home.
In Serry's Mrs. S. Vernon Mann VIII give
a dance for her debutante granddaughter.
Miss Edith V. VI. Simonds. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs Francis NJ. Simonds.
The attention of a large circle Will
centre in the marriage in Boston, tomor-
row of Miss Priscilla y. Reynolds to MT
George Lindsey Burr, of New York and
Dobbs Ferry, n Y. Owing to the recent
will be simple Mr.. Burr will take his
bride TO No &c Hatch Terrace, Dobbs
Ferry. to live.
On Tuesday Mrs. Robert Gillespie Mead.
Of No II West Eleventh street. will give
the second of two afternoon receptions
for Miss Theodore Mead, her debutante
daughter
Another of the dances of January Will
be on Friday night with Mr.. and Mrs
Charles u. Alexander as host and hostess
The dance will be in their home on the
same night Sir Ashley and Lady Sparks
will give a dance in the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel for Miss Amy r. \. Sparks, who
was introduced TO society IN December ny
her mother.
For the first time in several years the
home OF Mrs. William Douglas Sloane VIII
be the centre Of social activity on saturday
night when she wGl give dance shcSe for
three family dtbutautes--her granddaugh-
ter. Miss Emily sloane Hammond daugh-
ter OF Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Hammond.
and her grandnieces. Miss Louise Wander
bilt Scheiffelin. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
William Jay Schieffelin. and Miss Louise
Morris. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Dave
Hennen Morris On Saturday night also
Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Pynchon will give
a. dance in the Ritz-Cariton for Miss Marie
Y. Leary. daughter OF Mrs. Pynchon. In
the afternoon Mrs. James Henry Schmelzel
OF No. Is West Forty-sixth street. will in
troduce her daughter. Miss Ethel Schmei-
eel.
The dance that Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
Lee Pratt gave in the Plaza Hotel to in
troduce their daughter. Miss Harriet b.
Pratt, was one of the largest of society ;
New Years Eve assemblies. OF several
dinner parties entertained before the
dance. that arranged by Mrs. Walter Jen-
nings fer, the debutante was the largest
In the receiving party was Miss Isabel
Rockefeller. daughter OF MT. anu MIs'
Percy A. Rockefeller.
OF two other incidents of New Years
Eve that stand out one was a farewell
dinner given by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid IN her
home for viscount Grey, X. c.. the British
Ambassador. who started Tor England yes
terday on board the Adutania. Other
,otable guests were Sir William Tyrrell
tre British Minister Plenipotentiary, and
Captain Ronald Campbell Third Secretary
OF the Embassy The guests also included
Lord and Lady Glenconner. who nave
ioined the large English colony in New
: York After the dinner there was an hour
of music. with Nine Frances Aida and
Charles Haokett. both of the Metropolitan
opera, as soloists.
Tho second outstanding incident was the
first New Years Eve reunion OF members
of the Rockaway Hunting Club In several
,.ears and the largest dinner and dance
there in o decade. From almost every
corner Of the globe noted polcists, VINO
had hcCn in the service OF lnt EoNttlhhttb
during the war, were there TO give 10
the club it's old-timc appearance. Fully
five hundred members and guests Joined
in that significant reunion that holds out
tho prospect Of renewed activity in that
Cedarhurst colony through the coming
spring.
starting on next Friday night, the
bachelors. who more nearly approach the
idea OF ,thc Patriarchs OF an earlier and
extinct social period than any other organ
ization Of men since tho days OF tho late
ward McAilistor viii resume their dances
in the Della Robbia room OF the Wander
o,lt Hotel These assemblies Will be given
under the narne OF tho Friday Evening
Supper Dances. There viii be three, end
ing with one on January @. The proceeds
win be donated to a charity yet TO be se-
lccted
rhc Governing Committee of the
pncnclors is composed of Messrs Richard
p.tars Horace G. StebbinS Hamilton
Fish. Jr william Wickham Hoffman,
William Rhinelandor Stewart. Ir. Maurice
r1,cse. Alfonso dc Navarro, H. Thornton
WILSON schuyler Ia Parsons and Whitney
Warren, Jr.
Amateurs 40 Revive Musical Play.
"The Runaway Girl" one Of tho dra-