The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
Holiday Dances
for Younger Set

~ HRISTMAS week will find the
ranks of society much in
- creased with the influx from
college, boarding and preparatory
schools OF the members of the younger
set, all of whom will have to be con-
sidered in the many entertainments
that are being given. Some OF them
will be included at the parties of their
elders, but the majority OF those at
home for the holidays will be included
in tho smaller dances which will be
and the season after.
There will be q combination dance
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frederic Il. Church
and Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rumsey
Marvin at the Plaza tomorrow night
for their respective daughters, Miss
Charlotte d. Church and Miss Judith
II. Marvin. Mrs. James III. Ottley
will have a dance on Tuesday night
at the Ritz-Carlton for her debutante
daughter. Miss Martha Ottley. On
Wednesday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur w. Francis will have a large
dance in the ballroom of the Colony
Club for their debutante daughter,
Miss Katharine w. Francis, in advance
Of which Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Curtiss
James will give a dinner for Miss
Francis and some OF her young
friends. Another dance of that night
will be given at the Ritz-Carlton by
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin c. Fincke and
Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Brown for
their debutante daughters. Miss Julia.
Brown FYncke and Miss Dorothy
Douglas Brown, who are grand
daughters of Mrs. Waldron Post
Brown. Preceding this dance a din
ner for the debutantes will be given
by Mr.. and Mrs. J. Wright Brown. A
luncheon OF that day will be given for
Miss Betty wolcott Merchant at the
Colony Club by her mother. Mrs.
Huntington w. Merchant. and Mrs.
Edwin Campbell.
wednesday will be much occupied
with dinners, theatre parties and dances.
Probably the largest theatre party of the
season will be given by Mr. Thomas b.
Davis for his niece. Miss Mary Davis
Landstreet, the debutante daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Fairfax Stuart Landstreet.
His guests will number about hun
dred and fifty, who after dinner at the
Ritz-Carlton will be conveyed to the New
Amsterdam Theatre for the performance
Of sally in Our Alley" Dances of that
night are being given by Mr.. and Mrs.
William III. Woodin for Miss Elizabeth
f. woodin at the Plaza and by Mr.. and
Mrs Henry z. Meeker for Miss Eliza
beth Meeker at the Ritz-Carlton. Mrs.
Thomas A. Cawthra will give another Of
the dances at the Plaza, and IL will be
for her daughter, Miss Genevieve Cav
thra-
That afternoon Mr.. Julius IT. wortum
is holding reception with dancing at SO
East Eghty-second street for her
daughter. Miss Clara +. workum Mrs.
Payne Whitney will give a dance that
night for her daughter, Miss Joan Whit
ney. who Is at homo from school for the
holidays.
Mrs Charles Il. Alexander has sent
out invitations for n dance to be given
on tho night OF January 3 at West
Fifty-eighth street for her grandniece,
Miss Virginia Harrison, and also for
Miss Georgette de Saint Paul of Paris,
who is passing tho winter with Mrs.
Alexander.
For tho younger element there will be
the first ~ the holiday dances, a series
OF subscription events directed by Mrs.
william II. X. Taylor. The juniors will
meet at the plaza on Wednesday night.
and on Friday night there will be meet
ing at the same place of the Friday
Juniors, set of dances organized for
the holidays years ago by Miss Georgi-
ana Hartman Owen.
The artists for Mr.. BaEby's musical
tomorrow at the Waldorf I
Astoria viii be Mime Frances Alda and I
Bcniamino Gigl of the Metrorfisan /
opera and Gutia Casini, 'cellist