The Washington herald., 1921-01-01
Mclean Ball
Gala Event
Society Dances
Staged to Watch
NeID Year In.
By EVELYN C. HUNT.

Washington society, determined
that little Miss 1921 should not
slip unnoticed into town, assembled
at the hotels, clubs and in their
homes. last evening to greet the
stranger.
Perhaps the most important So
cial event of the evening was the
big ball and dinner given by Mr..
and Mrs. Edward B. Mclean at
their home on I street. Here the
social elect of the National Capital
gathered to dance the Old Year out
and the New Year in. About 400
invitations to the ball had been is
sued and, reports Of preparations
for the event sounding so alluring,
practically every invitation was ac-
cepted. The bathrooms and entire
house were lavishly decorated with
the traditional reds and greens Of
the Yuletide season as the prevail
ing note. The music was exception
ally fine, as Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean
had not only secured the finest
available in the city but had brought
a special orchestra from Florida
and one from New York for the af-
fair.
The guests included members Of
the diplomatic, official and resi-
Dental sets. The debutantes of the
season were particularly remem-
bered on the invitation list and at
tended practically in a body.
Before the ball Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Lean entertained about forty guests
at dinner. Among the guests pres-
ent were Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Randolph Hearst, of New
York, guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Lean, and Mrs. Henry Clews, OF
New York, who Is also a guest of
the McLeans.
Preceding the ball were a num-
Der OF smart dinner parties, the
diners later going to the McLeans
to dance. Chief among these din
ners was the dinner given by Mrs.
Bainbridge Colby. Her guests in
cluded the Acting Secretary of
State and Mrs. Norman H. Davis;
the Ambassador OF Peru and Nine.
Pezet: the Minister of the Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes and Nine.
Grouitch; Mr.. and Mrs. Henry de
Bach, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond, william Phelps Emo, Mrs
George Ehle, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Schoelkopf. Mr.. and Mrs. Alexand der
Sedgwick, Mr.. and Mrs. r. r Gov
in. Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Caspar
Miller, and Franklin MacVeagh.
MR.. AND MRS. sYLyANUs
STOKES AMONG ENTERTAINERS.
Another dinner party that later
went on to the McLeans to dance
was that given by Mr.. and Mrs.
'Sylvanus Stokes, jr., who enter
tanned a smart company OF guests,
the majority of them members OF
the younger married set.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Henry Young
entertained a party of young peo-
pie at dinner last evening for their
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hervey
Young and her guest, Miss Janet
Harlan, granddaughter of the late
Chief Justice Harlan. After din
ner they, too, Joined their friends
at the Mclean ball.
Col. and Mrs. George Marshall
were hosts at a dinner given in
honor Of the secretary OF War and
Mrs. Newton ID. Baker. The guests
later went to ths army dance at
24OO Sixteenth street and remained
TO greet the New Year. Receiving
at the dance with. Secretary and
Mrs. Baker were Gen. and Mrs.
Arthur Murray and Commander and
MTS, EmmeL u. GQQgeF.
To the boys and girls home from
school for the holidays, the most
importent event of the evening was
the dinner party which Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke and Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney gave
at the Chevy Chase Club for Mrs.
Brooke's son and daughter, Bates
Mckee and Miss, Frances Mckee
4 Do1
Sweeney, jr. About seventy MEM
bers of the younger set were guests
at the dinner and remained after
ward to dance the new year in.
Miss Helen Tucker was the guest
Of honor at another dinner at the
Chevy Chase Club, her fance, Eli
phaIet Frazer Andrews, jr., enter
tanning in her honor. There were
twenty-eight guests, young people
all, and Miss Mildred Williams,
Of War and Mrs. William R. Will
Jams, who is staying with Mr.. An
drews' mother, Mrs. E. F. Andrews,
was among the guests.
Another dinner at Chevy Chase
Club was given by DR.. and Mrs.
Davenport White, who entertained
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Among those entertaining at sup
per for the Watch Party" at the
New willard were Goutesha Vladi-
mir, secretary of the Serbian Lega-
tion, who had six guests; Miss L.
Johnson, daughter of Senator Ed
win S. johnson, Of South Dakota:
E. Summerlfn, Mrs. George McCabe,
who had nine guests; Capt. Gordon
Gordon Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy
Boyle, DR.. Elmer Sothoron, W. I.
Burch, jr., Maj. Edward NJ Brown,
Basil Gordon, H. T. Van. Strum,
Miss 3. C. Johnson and Miss NJ.
Stewart.
Among the many hostesses giving
dinners at Wardman Park Inn last
evening and watching out the old
year and welcoming in the new
year was Mrs. Elizabeth Bailey,
who had as her guests the Chief
OF Naval Operations and Mrs. Rob-
ert E. Coontz, the Chief of Military
Intelligence and Mrs. Dennie E. No
Ian. Col. and Mrs. John B. Bennett,
Maj. and Mrs. Truxss, Mrs. Alex
ander Sharp, sr., Capt. John B. Ben
nett, jr., U. s. A; Lieut.. Butler, U.
s. A; Lieut.. Wattles, U. S. N, and
her granddaughters, the Misses
Frances and Marion Smith. Mrs.
Bailey, who is the widow Of Charles
H. Bailey, of st. Louis, has an
apartment at Wardman Park Inn
for the winter.
At st. Marks Cafe a merry party
of Washington's smartest people
gathered to greet the New Year.
Among those entertaining there
were Comdr. and Mrs. H. w. R1sk,
Delos Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Hal
Smith, Lieut.. BrlII and Comdr. 8.