The New York herald., 1921-12-21
MISS JOAN WHITNEY MAKES
DEBUT AT DINNER AND DANCE
Party for 700 at the Plaza for
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whit
ney's Daughter.

Miss Joan Whitney was introduced
10 society last night by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne Whitney. at a
dinner and dance in the Plaza Hotel.
Her debut sent the memories of some
OF the Older guests back TO the davs Of
the generous hospitality of her grand
father. the late William C. whitney.
Miss Whitney's debut was in reality
ball preceded by fifteen dinner parties.
in addition to one Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney
gave for their daughter. The party was
accompanied by both a buffet and seated
supper and terminated with n breakfast.
Although given in a hotel Mr.. and
Mrs. Whitney's party had all the char
acteris.ics OF an entertainment in a pri-
Vate house. From the new entrances the
guests, who numbered more than 100.
entered into a foyer which, with the
terraced restaurant, had been closed 10
me pubie. There was the same privacy
in the broad staircases leading to the
ballroom floor. all OF which. with its
large and small bathrooms and adjacent
corridors and salons. had been reserved
for the party. The main restaurant
was reached from this secluded section
OF the hotel. There was no definite
nour for the supper. After midnight
the guests formed ccngenial groups and
gathered about the tables. The buffet
supper was served in the small ball
room which adjoins the large one
Breakfast at 4 O'Clock.
1t was the late William c. Whitney
Who' in dispensing his hospitality TO
MS generation. gave to New York the
vogue of the typical Yankee breakfast
as the terminating chapter of a. FASH
ionaole soiree. The sausage he had
upon his tables was ALWAYS properly
splced and the griddle cakes were uni
lortniy Drowned and as faultlessly
cooked We're those matutinal comestibIes
served to the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
fayne Whitney at a quarter to four
o'clock this morning.
me decorations were suggestive of
the coming Christmas period. Wreaths
Oh molly and evergreen, with large red
oows attached to them. reflected their
contrasting colors in the mirrors before
which they had been hung. Two orches-
tras that left no resting time for the
e%haustiess energy of the dancing set
Oh al ages played in a grove of pines
on the ballroom stage. and there was a
duplicate of that evergreen grove at the
opposite end of the ROOM There were
more Christmas decorations in the bal
comics.
The dinner the host and hostess rave
Tor their daughter was in their home.
972 Fifth avenue. Their guests were
the Misses Lydia +. Dadmun, NJ. Adele
and Virginia NJ. Ryan, Lille Hancock.
Sheila Burden. Barbara Whitney, Marie
and Frances Norton, Muriel Wander
Dit. Kate de +. Prentice, Elizabeth
kountze. Adele S. Hammond, Mildred
Smith, Katherine Thompson, Florence
Lockwood. Evelyn Wadsworth, daughter
OF United States Senator and Mrs James
W. Wadsworth. Jr., and a cousin of
Miss Joan Whitney Gertrude E. du p.
Sanford and Anita Strawbridge of Phila-
delphia; Vicomte CASTOR Ogier d'Ivry
and Messrs. John Parsons Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney. Norman Walker.
Warren Leslie, John Dodd, Dickson Pot
ter. Jean and Louis Bertschmann
Joseph G. Baldwin Sd, Langhorne Glib
son. Jerome Preston, Harry c. Cush-
ing Sd. Peter Chambers, Joseph Harri-
man. Kenneth Phillips, Walter Carey,
Thomas II. Howard, Charles Suydam
Cutting, Theodore Chanier. Stuart