The New York herald., 1920-12-29
Miss Prentice,
Debutante, Has
200 at Dinner
Several Hundred Additional
Guests Arrive for the
Dancing.

The largest dinner party since the
debutantes have held the centre of the
social stage with the opening of the
season in November was given last night
in the Ritz-Carlton by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hill Prentice to introduce their
daughter. Miss Caroline c. Prentice. Two
hundred guests sat at five long tables in
the ballroom Of the hotel after host.
hostess and debutante had greeted them
in the crystal room. There were several
hundred additional guests for the dance.
The table decorations for the dinner
were of pink Japanese lilies. long
stemmed roses and pansies. In the foyer
and about the ballroom were festoons of
smilax and groups of lofty palms and
ferns. At the conclusion of dinner the
guests returned to the crystal room for
coffee while the ballroom was cleared for
the dance. A midnight supper was served
in the main restaurant.
The dinner guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. King Carley.
Mrs. Clifford A. Cochran, Mrs William K.
Vanderbilt I'd. Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney. Mr.. and Mrs. Malcolm
Baker, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Woodward
Babcock, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Whitney.
Mrs Howard c. Cushing, Mrs. Frederick
Martin Davies, Mr.. and Mrs. William F.
Whitehouse. Mr.. and Mrs. Courtlandt d.
Barnes Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel A. Well
don, Mr. and Mrs. Frederic n. Watriss,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Worthington Bull.
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt, Mr.. and Mrs Elliot G. Bacon, Mr..
Nd Nfyo NhOn
and Mrs. Amory S. Carhart, Mr.. and
Mrs T. Morrison Carnegie. Mr.. and Mrs.
Forsyth Wickes, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Rogers Winthrop.
Also Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur O. Choate,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Tweed, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis G.. Clarke. Jr. Mr.. and Mrs
James Cameron Clark, Mr.. and Mrs
Edward T. II. Talmage, Mr.. and Mrs
Seymour LIE Grand Cromwell, Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph r. Swan. Mr.. and Mrs. e.
Livingston Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Charles
II. Sabin. Mr.. and Mrs. Eliot Cross, Mr.
and Mrs. Murray w. Dodge, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. T. H. Talmage. Jr.; Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas H. rockingham, Mr.. and
Mrs. Richard v. N Cambria, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth B. Schley. Mr.. and Mrs
Henry w. Sage, Mr.. and Mrs Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr; Mr.. and Mrs James w.
Gerard and Mr.. and Mrs. Goodhue Liv-
ingston.
Others were Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden H.
Hammond, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence L.
Hay. Mr.. and Mrs. George Stuart Pat
terson, Mr.. and Mrs. Grafton II. Pyne,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt, Mr. and Mrs.
William Frazier Harrison of Philadel-
phia, Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Pratt, Mr..
and Mrs Arthur Iselin, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles l.. Lawrence. Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Iselin. Mr.. and Mrs. Eliphalet N. Potter
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lyon Polk, Mr.. and
Mrs. G.. Hermann Kinnicutt, Mr.. <and
Mrs. Bradish c. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Morris w. Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs w.
Goadby Loew. Mr.. and Mrs. John Magee,
Mr.. and Mrs George d. Widener, Mrs
Robert l.. Stevens, Mrs. lie Grand C.
Griswold, Mrs. Heber r. Bishop, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Kearsley Mitchell Mr.. and Mrs.
Grayson Murphy, Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler
Livingston Parsons. Mr.. and Mrs. George
B. Post, Jr., and Mrs. Cryder Higgins.
Among the young women were Misses
Marian Hoffman. Grace Vanderbilt,
Marion Taylor. Dorothy Duncan, Muriel
Vanderbilt, Florence Ellsworth. Leila
Emery. Ruth Twombly, Helen l.. S.
Trevor, Katherine Mackay. Carlotta
Havemeyer, Betty Thompson. Mary S.
Stevens. Katharine and Eleanor Hurd,
Dorothy Kane, Jane and Gertrude San
ford. Helen Moran. Ruth Morgan. Marion
Taylor, Barbara Kissel, Evelyn Loew.
Frances Norton, Harriette Post, Ellen
Randolph, Isabel Rockefeller and Cor
nelia Sage