The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-22
Miss Ottley Has
FINE Hundred at
Debutante Party
Mrs. G. B. French and Mrs. L.
b. Gilman Entertain
Naval Ball Also Held.

Continuing the merriment OF Christi
mas week In the young set of society.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Ottley of 20
West Fifty-third street had the field TO
themselves last night with a dinner and
dance in the Ritz-Carton to introduce
their daughter. Miss Martha NJ. Ottley.
Numerous dinners preceded the as
sembly, one OF the largest Of which
was given by Mr.. and Mrs. Ottley. In
their group. in addition TO their daugh-
ter were Misses Eliza S. Parish, Mar
guerite Doubleday. Katharine Hurd.
Ellen Randolph. Isabel Rockefeller. Julia
b. Finc!ie, Charlotte Demorest, Odette
FEEDER, Sarah C. Atha, Edith l. M.
Smedberg and Kathryn I. Slayback,
Messrs. William Hardness. Walden Pell
I'd, F'rand Gould, Hampton S. Lynch.
Lewis Livingston Delafield. Jr.; George
Purdy HILL, Eugene Hodenpyl. Skeffing>
ton Norton. Gilbert c. Demo-est, DaJ>
win P. Kingsley. Jr.; Philip A. 8.
Franklin, Jr. Sydney f. Brewster, War
rem D. Brewster, 8. Vernon Mann, J1;
Shelton Voleman and James II. Ottley,
u.
Another dinner before the dance was
arranged by Mr.. and Mrs. George Bar
ton French for Misses Isabella Wood,
Betty Thompson and Helen l.. S. Trevor.
In their party were Misses Barbara F.
Hooker. Eleanor Towne. Cynthia Bige-
low, Clara +. Worlzum, May Wistar
Morris, Florence Ellsworth. Dorothy
Newton Sharp. Annie Burr Auchinc,oss.
Caroline Prentice and Phyllis Batchel-
Ter, Major Cooper Foote and Messrs.
Henry G. Trevor, Jr. Charles Coulter.
Roger Tuckerman. John Jay Schieffelin.
Douglas Delany, Jesse Hoyt. Nelson
Borland I'd. Daniel Grant. James W.r-
ren, Holbrook Cushman. Daniel Drake
Smith and Douglas Campbell. who in
the interim between dinner and dance
were taken to see 1.-THE Broken Wing"
ia the Forty-eighth Street Theatre.
Also preceding Mr.. and Mrs Ottley's
dance q dinner was given by Mr. and
Mrs Lawrence b. Gilman for their de-
butante niece, Miss Susan Bowers
Coppell. Their party included Misses
Edith Smith, Frances Mott. Margaret
Phelps, Betty Wolcott Merchant. Mary
Davis Landstreet. Urling Valentine and
Betty Murphy and Messrs. Walter w.
Stokes, Jr.; w. Savery Lower, Charles
w. Bowring, Jr.; Carl w. Timpson, j.
Herbert Claiborne, Jr.; John Meyer
Kort and l.. NJ. Doyle.
Mrs. John d. Ryan gave dinner at
East Seventy eighth street for her
son, Mr.. John c. Ryan, and went to the
dance with her guests. who included
Misses Katherine Mackay. Betty Jack
son, Margaret Hennessy Katharine Bis
sell, Margaret o. Flint. Katherine Kent,
Beatrice and Phyllis Byrne. Catharine
and Laura Harding and several under
graduates at Harvard home for the hol-
days
Others among the 500 guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Ottley were Misses Betty
Barber. Adelaide Kip Rhinelander. Mary
Osgood Field, Elizabeth Lee Dodge. Elise
H. Hughes, Elsie Parsons, Laura Mabon,
Helena Ogden, Florence and Evelyn
Loew, Melissa Yulie. Yvonne Gourd.
Emily Sloane Hammond, Louise Wander
bit Schieffelin. Muriel Vanderbilt, Helen
Y. Schnevtnd, Lillian L. Remsen, Caro-
line c. Prentice and Betsy Flagg.
Mrs. Roger Lewis will give an after
noon dance in the Plaza on December 80
FOR her daughter, Miss Mary Barley
Lewis.
All of last nights dancing was not
for the amusement of the debutantes.
In the Commodore Hotel was the Naval
ball, under the auspices of a large conf
nittee. headed by Mrs Julian w. Rob-
bins. for the Navy Club. at Is East
Forty-first street. AS the hotel man
agement donated the use of the ball
room suite. the amount of money
raised was SUBSTANTIAL. Inc Dalld
from the u. S. Pennsylvania fur
nished virile dance music. The
ball was under the patronage of Adj
miral II. b. Wilson, who commands the
Atlantic squadron and who. with
number of additional guests. dined with
Mrs. Vincent Astor in her home. $40
Fifth avenue. Other dinners were given
by Mrs. a. Barton Hepburn. Mrs. John
Henry Hammond, Mrs. Belmont Tiff
fanny. Mrs. !. Chauncey McKeever, Mrs.
Lydig Hoyt, Mrs. Spencer Turner and
Mrs. NJ Lentilhon Crook, who took her
guests to the theatre and later had
box overlooking the ballroom floor.
A dance last night at the Plaza In aid
Of the building fund OF the Madison
Avenue Exchange for Woman's Work
netted more than $1,000. There were
tables for bridge for those who did not
care to dance. Some exhibition dances
were given by members of a Russian
ballet under the direction Of Stanislaws
Portapovitch. Boxes were had by
Mines. Ira Barrows, William Lowe
Rice, William A. Jamison, Albert H.
Wiggin, William Barbour, Melvin A.
Bronson. N. Hamilton Dalton, Arthur
Ryle, William c. Ivison, Arson r.
Flower, Thomas Denny, stephen I'll.
Tying, Jr.; Frederick Gunther and
Charles Newcomb.