New-York tribune., 1920-10-10
Brilliant Autumn Season
Being Planned at Tuxedo
Ball, Dog Show and Many Entertainments for
Debutantes Will Be Features of Fall Pro-
gram of Events Arranged in Cottage Colony

by Mrs. J. Horace Harding. Mrs.
Harding gave luncheon at her home.
955 Fifth Avenue, for Miss Laura
Harding, who will be formally intro
duced later on. Mrs. Harding after
ward took her guests to a matinee.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Willoughby Sharp
have arranged to give q dance for their
debutant daughter, Miss Dorothy New
be at the Colony Club and, it goes with
out saying. one of the smartest affairs
of the early season.
In anticipation of New York's brill
liant autumn many have already re-
turned to town, and the hotels and res
taurants during the luncheon and din
ner hours are so crowded that the
scenes suggest the gay days before the
war. Many who have not opened their
houses are at the hotels, entertaining in
dances. The Ritz and the Plaza, st.
Regis, Gotham and Waldorf are all
taxed to their capacity with the visi-
tors focking to town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Coppell have
come in from their country home at
Tenafy and probably will entertain in
an informal way throughout the au-
tumn, for their daughter, Miss Susan
Bowers Coppell, who wilt Join the ranks
Of the debutentes in December, when
her parents will give large AFFAIR." for
popular with her various Coppell rela-
tiyes, the Louis Haights. the O. De
Lancey Costers and the Lawrence B.
Ellimans, all of whom may be counted
upon to do something for her IN So
cial way this winter.
The run to White Sulphur and Hot
Springs Is such a short one that many
who have come back to town for the
season max. frequent visits there TO
enjoy the wonderful golf and horseback
riding and the hunt meets that are
part Of the social life at these popular
resorts in the Virginia mountains.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Graves have de-
serted their home at Mineola and gone
to White Sulphur and Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. E. Rionda are at Hot Springs, where
they will remain for another fortnight
before returning to their country home
at Alpine on the Hudson. Her parents,
MI and Mrs James D. Coin, are with
them.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Magee Ellsworth and
their daughter, Miss Elizabeth Van
Rensselaer, Ellsworth, are at Hot
Springs, where they plan to remain for
the greater part of the month, and Mrs.
Joseph Z. Widener is at White Sulphur
for an indefinite stay. Mrs. John A.
Logan has arrived there for the au-
tumn and recent additions to the fash
ionable colony include Mrs. Lewis
Gouverneur Morris, Mrs. James Henry
McCoon, Miss Edythe McCoon and Mr..
and Mrs. Jay Terry West. The Vests,
who passed the summer at Dobbs Fer
ry. will desert their home on Park Ave
nue. this winter in favor of California.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roderic Tower are also
to pass the winter on the coast and will
make their home for the coming season
at Los Angeles. New York will also
miss Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Chester
French and their daughter Miss Mar
tina French, this winter: They plan to
sail about the middle of November and
will pass the balance of the winter
in southern Italy.
Another engagement just announced
is that of Miss Marion Henshaw, daugh-
ter of Mrs. M. B. Henshaw, of Bridge
port, Conn, to William Miller Paxton
Sd. of this city. Miss Henshaw was
graduated from the CORTLAND School at
Bridgeport and Miss BENEFITS School at
Millbrook, N. Y. Mr.. Paxton is a
graduate of Princeton University, where
he was captain and stroke on the varsity
crew.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman Stewart Walk
er, of Dongan Hills, S. l., have an
nounced the engagement of their daugh-
ter. Miss Gertrude Stewart Walker, to
Jerome Alexander Quay Frsrks, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert A. Franks, of 1876
East Sixty-sixth Street. No date has
been set for the wedding.