The New York herald., 1921-12-04
Take Advantage of Lull in Entertainments for Arms
Delegates Baroness de Cartier Gives Luncheon for
Her Niece, Miss Betty Connolly.

it all over most attractively and settled
down in it and proceeded 20 make life
as interesting as they could for them
selves and to share Its pleasures with
large circle OF friends. They are people
mho enjoy life and live it enthusiast
cally-nice. friendly. human sort Of folk
OF the live and let live" sort. The two
children--Alice and Billy--have been
away at school most OF the time, but
they have had a royal good time when
they came homo for the holidays.
Christcned n Battleship.
Just recently Miss Alice was chosen
70 name the big new battleship West
Virginia and went down 10 Newport
News for the christening. The vessel is
aiioat, but is "A long way from being fin
ished, and If the present conference
plans go through is likely to be scrapped
before 1t gets much further along tow
ard completion. But it was christened
with as much pomp and ceremony as If
1t was to sail the seven seas and bear
the American flag and American au-
thority into the harbors Of the earth.
This week Miss Nina Lunn, the first
Congressional bud. daughter of Mrs.
Wallace White. made her bow. Mrs
White Is the wife of Representative
White of Maine. Mrs. Whites mother.
Mrs. Lombard. came all the way from
the Pacific coast TO assist" at her
granddaughter debut.
There were two other debuts during
The week--those of Miss Mary Emily
Hamilton. daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George p. Hamilton, and Miss Lady
Jane Raby. daughter of Capt and Mrs.
j. j. Raby-the one appealing especially
10 resident society and the other to navy
foik. 1t seems rather curious that a
child should have been baptized Lady
Jane and it seems at first blusi,
rather cute" as name, but when the
ohlid who bears it grows up and has TO
put Miss" before 1t It certainly COM
picates matters a bit.
These arc the only ones to have ac
tual debut parties. but there have beep
all sorts OF parties for debuntantes.
Two OF the most notable being the
luncheon which the Baroness de Car
Tier, wife OF the Belgian Ambassador.
gave on Tuesday for her niece. Miss
betty Connolly, in honor of Miss Kath-
crime Hughes. to which most of the
prominent debutantes of the season
were invited The group of girls in
cluded Miss Ailsa Mellon, Miss Beatrice
Beck. Miss Nan Tenant CPrincess
Bibesco's young cousin, whom she
brought back from England TO spend
| the winter with her bere), Princess
Bertha Cantacuzene-Speransk Miss
Bloveras, Miss Ingegerd Wallenberg,
| Miss de Warsee. Miss Inga Bryn, Miss
Mildred Bromwell. Miss Gladys Chap
man Smith and Miss Silvercruyz
On Friday Mrs. Arthur Capper. wife
4 .1r Se.,,a fr,. (fn .f
big debutante luncheon--rounded up
| pretty neary the whole group-for her
| niece. Miss Isabella Campbell who is
spending the winter with the Cappers
aud for whom they will give u debut
ball about the middle of the month
! And there were several other parties
rather elaborate some of them-given
| Ivy debutantes or their friends for the
| other debutantes. to help them get
| acquainted with one another.
But considering the number of debu-
! tantes the season is producing, the num-
Der of formal debut parties is COM
paratively small. Formal debuts seem
! TO be rather in the discard, even as big
weddings with much fuss and feathers
are. Many of tho most important OF
the seasons debutanies are not having
! them at ALL
! For instance there is Evelyn Wads-
worth. only daughter Of Senator and
Mrs. James w. Wadsworth. Jr. of New
York--quite little parsonage in her
way--for not only is her father Wads-
worth but her mother is John Hays
daughter, Lincoln's secretary and Nc
Kinley's Secretary of State. She is un-
doubtedly one of the debutantes, but she
is TO have no debut. She will simply be
out without the formality of coming
| out toll he f11a n lnntnerC
and 20 around with the young people
Of her own ago and station as II seems
desirable to do SO.
There is Princess Bertha Cantacuzenc
daughter OF Prince and Princess Michael
Speransky. the latter a
daughter of Gen. Frederick Dent Grant
and a granddaughter of General-ano
President--Ulysses ). Grant. This littlt
lady. great-granddaug aughter of one of oui
greatest OF soldiers and identified VIII
the capital through several generations
one might say. was certainly entitled tc
a formal presentation TO society here
But she is not to have II. The Cantacu'
zenes are spending the winter here, vita
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant. and littlc
Princess Bertha Is. like Evelyn Wads-
worth, to be out without coming out II
is safe 10 say that she will be in on every
party that is given. And when there are
two she will be asked TO assist at botf
simultaneously.
Then there Is Gladys Chapman Smith
whose mother is now Mime. Marcel Levie
she having been married to a member oI
.he French High Commission some tarcf
years ago. i. doesn't seem possible that
one OF her two little daughters Is old
enough TO be making her debut--bu'
here she Is, home with her grandmotaei
for the winter and her debut scheduled
for next Saturday. She has been living
for the last few years abroad with heI
mother. dividing her time between Cor
sica. where Capt. Levie's estates are
and the continent, chiefly France: lnt
she is very much a little cosmopolitan.
On the same day Mrs. Henry NJ. Hoy
will present her daughter Nancy. also !
bud who will receive much attention
There also are half a dozen diplomatic
dcbutantes. most of whom are not e
have formal debuts.
Amateur Th~atricals.