New-York tribune., 1920-01-16
Large Dance
Is Given for
MissHannond
Seasons Leading Debutantes
Attend Function at Home
I Of Mrs. W. d. Sloane
for Her Granddaughter
Miss Hitchcock Engaged
Mid.Year Dance at the Ritz
ON Valentines Day I'm.
der Noteworthy Patronage

One Of the last and also one Of the
most brilliant Of the debutante dances.
which have been crowding tho social
calendar since early in December, was
given last evening by Mrs. William
Douglas Sloane. at her house. 2 West
Mty-seeond Street, for her grand
daughter, Miss Emily Sloane Hammond,
laughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry
Hammond. The house was decorated
v,rn palms and Towering plants, and
the debutante received with Mrs.
Slsane. near the entrance to the ball
room. Tho guests were all members
.of the younger set, including many of
the most prominent Of the winters
4buds," and the dancing was followed
hy . seated supper.
Miss Hammond is one Of the four
ereat-granddaughters Of the late Will
liam H. Vanderbilt presented to So
eisty this winter. The others are Miss
Louise Vanderbilt Schieffelin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. William Jay Schieffe-
lin; Miss Louise Morris, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris, and
Miss Cornelia Vanderbilt, daughter Of
the late George W. Vanderbilt. There
is another Vanderbilt debutante, a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of the late
William H. Vanderbilt, Miss Muriel
Vanderbilt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt jr.
Mrs. John Hitchcock, of III Com.
nonwealth Avenue, Boston, announces
the engagement Of her daughter, Miss
Evelyn Hitchcock, to Douglas Mace.
Stewart, son Of DR.. and Mrs. Douglas
a. Stewart, Of New York. Miss Hitch
cock, who was in the 1918 Sewing Cir
Gle, was active in war work. serving
for over year at Brooks Hospital. Mr..
Stewart was graduated from Harvard
IN 1916. He was on convoy duty in
the navy during the war and recently
returned from France, where he spent
several months after his release from
active service.
The mid-year dance for older girls
at the Ritz-Carlton will be Valentine
affair and given on the evening of
February IA. 1t will be under the
patronage Of Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley,
Mrs. Richard C. Colt, Mrs. Rowland
Davis, Mrs: George c. Fraser, Mrs: Ell
Mrs. R.. Burnham Moffat, Mrs. A..
Henry Mosle, Mrs. William A. Read
and Mrs. Wilfred ]. Worcester.
Mrs. Livingston Carroll's marriage to
". Sackett Duell, Of Philadelphia, will
take place next Wednesday. in her
apartment at the Lorraine. Fifth Ave
nue. and Forty-ffth Street. Only few
relatives will be present at the cere-
nony, but about 200 friends have been
asked to the reception a{terward. Mrs.
Carroll, who is a daughter of Mrs.
clsrmont Livingston Best, will be given
away by her cousin, Whitney Warren.
She will have no attendants. Mr..
Duell's best man will be his brother,
Charles L. Duell jr.
Miss Helen A. Carrere has chosen
February II as the date Of her mar
riage to Frederick X. Barbour. 1t will
take place in st. James's Church.
Mrs. Oliver Gould Jennings has sent
out invitations for luncheon at her
aome, 8S2 Fifth Avenue, January 27,
for her mother, Mrs. Benjamin Brew
star.
Several charity dances will be given
this evening, including another Of the
series known as the Bachelors, in the
Della Robbia room Of the Hotel Van
derhilt. Many suppers will be given in
connection with 1t, and the proceeds
will be ussd for homo charities.
Another Of the St. Christopher
League dances will be given this
evening at the Plaza Il viii be for the
beneht Of the Nursery and Child's Hos
pital.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of St. Vim
csnt's Hospital will give its annual re-
eevtien and dance 1t the Waldorf-As-
tcria this evening for the benefit Of the
sick and poor Of st. Vinceut's Hos
pitaL
As- z. Henry Hartman will give a
dinner dance this evening at her home.
East Sixty-ninth Street.
Ar. and Mrs. Edward Dudley Kenna,
q 8 East Eighty-ninth Street, leave
ne city on Sunday for brief visit to
Washington.
Miss Betty Beirns Andrews, daugh-
Ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Garnet Andrews,
q Chattanooga, Tenn, is spending 3
M,cstnight with her cousins. M. and
Mrs. Josiah Kingsley Ohl, at s. East
sixty-6fth Street.
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