New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-01-04

with the new year the season OF 1or-
-, entertaining begins, and from now
.,t;l Ash Wednesday, when the curtain
In be rung down, in way, on social
-.vst;ss. there will be a continuous
, :, Of brilliant affairs. To be sure,
.s.rs was no end of these before the
.,Hdavs. but then entertaining was
largely given over to debutantes, and
,.ors il a certain amount of informality
about the affairs in their honor which
4 lacking in the big dances. the balls,
Tho dinners, musicals and othereatfairs
that always crowd the season from jan
uary on.
me Of the most brilliant affairs of the
veek will be the dance on Friday night
d Be given by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B.
Alexander at their home, West Fifty
,;ehth Street. 1t will be for the young
mssrried set, friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
llaxander's daughters, Mr.. and Mrs.
winthrop w. Aldrich and Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnold Whitridge, and few of the
older people.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt jr., who
already has given several entertain
uents for her debutant daughter, Miss
Murie! Vanderbilt, will give a dance in
her honor tomorrow evening at her
home, 666 Fifth Avenue.
All Of the Vanderbilt debutantes will
be on hand. and this almost might be
called Vanderbilt year, for in addition
10 Mrs. Vanderbilt's daughter there is
Mrs. George w. Vanderbilt's girl, Miss
Cornelia Vanderbilt; Miss Grace Van
derbilt, daughter of Brigadier General
and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; Miss
Louise Morris, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dave Hcnnen MorEis and q great-grand-
daughter of the late William II. Wander
bilt, and her cousins, Miss Emily Sloane
Hammond and Miss Louise Vanderbilt
Schieffeln.
Another event of the early new year
will be a dance January 8 by Mrs.
George Quintard Palmer at her home,
East Seventy third Street, and this
will be followed on Friday evening by
the popular subscription dances known
rs Tae Bachelors, which will be revived
In the Della Robbia room of the Hotel
Vanderbilt. The dates for the other
Two dances are January Is and %. The
proceeds will go to charity. The COM
mittee in charge comprises Richard
Peters, Horace C. Stebbins, Hamilton
Fish jr, William w. Hoffman, w.
ahlnelander Stewart jr., Maurice Roche,
Alfonso De Navarro, R. Thornton Will
son Schuyler L. Parsons and Whitney
Warren jr
Mrs. Albert B. Kerr gives luncheon
to-day at the Colony Club for Miss
Ccrnelia Sage the dsbutant daughter
# Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sage who had
one Of the most charming dances of
The holidays given for Der by her par
enss last week, and Mrs. Lucien Ham
ilton Tying will give the first of four
informal Sunday afternoon musicales
In January to-day at her home, 1888
East Sixty-fifth Street. Miss Penelope
Davis will sing.
The January series Of the Bagby
Illustrates Will Degln tomorrow at the
Waldorf-Assoria, and the artists will
be Miss Frieda Hempel, Nine. Besan-
toni and Percy Granger. The concert,
As usual, will be an excuse for informal
entertaining in the way of luncheon
parties afterwdrd.
Mrs. S. Vernon Mann will give a
mall dance tomorrow in the Sherry
apartments at the Waldorf Astoria for
,er granddaughter, Miss Edith V. M.
sImonds, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis NJ. Simondg Miss Simonds is
sne OF the debutantes Of the season.