The New York herald., 1921-12-27
PARTIES FOR DEBUTANTES
GAYEST OF THE SEASON
Receptions, Dinners and The
ater Gatherings Followed
by Three Dances.

There was a round of entertainments
yesterday that made the holiday the
gayest of the season. The reception held
in the afternoon by Mrs. Grenvllle
Parker to introduce her daughter, Miss
Marjorie Hughes, at 139 East Thirty
ninth street. was the first large gather
ing OF the day, and there followed sew
eral dinners, a theatre party and three
large dances. which kept the debutantes
busy going on from one to another.
The largest dance last night was given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry l.. Batterman In
tno Ritz-Carlton to introduce their
daughter, Miss Beatrice w. Batterman,
who is identified with the Locust Valley
section during the summer the country
place of her parents being Beaver Brook
Farm, In Mill Neck, L. !. Mr.. and Mrs.
6atterman's guests included not only the
young friends of their daughter. but
many of their own. The ballroom was
hung with holly, evergreens and mistle-
toe. and while supper was being served
IN the main restaurant negroes sang plan
tation melodies and popular songs.
Mrs. Il. Casimir de Rham of $50 Park
avenue and Tuxedo Park gave a dinner
last night at Sherry's to Introduce her
daughter Miss Marion Z. de Rham, and il
served as a prelude to Mr.. and Mrs. Bat
terman's dance, their daughter being
at two long tables decorated with GRIM
son poinsettia and holly. The guests
included only the young friends of Miss
de Rham. Among them were Mr. and
MRS. Casimir de Rham. Mr. and Mrs.
Morehead Patterson, Misses Elizabeth
kountze. Adele Sloane Hammond. Bar
bara Whitney, Annie Burr Auchincloss,
Phyllis and Priscilla Baldwin, Diana
Daiziel. Catherine w. Dews, Elizabeth
Lee Dodge, Mary Alice Barney, Nina
Chatillon. Elizabeth Blocker Carey,
IRIS Cutting. Josephine j. Dodge, Julia
Fincke, Ruth Thayer, Marjorie Taylor
Dorothy Newton Sharp, Gertrude San.
ford. Sylvia Goddard, Cornelia and, Sara
sage, Dorothy Schiff, Carlotta Have
meyer, Betty Thompson, Katharine
Hurd, Laura Harding. Joan Whitney,
Geraldine Thompson. Helen Trevor, Eve
lyn Loew. Elizabeth Meeker. Barbara
Murray. Marie and Frances Norton,
Kate de Forest Prentice, Betty Price,
Jeanne Reynal. Isabel Rockefeller. Adele
and Virginia Ryan and Celestine God
dard.
Among tho young men were Messrs.
Quincy s. Cabot Adams Ashforth. Henry
Clews Sd, Thomas Bancroft, L. Mauran
Beals, Thomas M. Carnegie. Jr. Charles
J. Coulter, Frederic Cromwell. John c.
Borden, Clifford v. Brokaw, Jr George
n. and Walter l.. Carey, James A. Bur-
den. Jr Seymour L. Cromwell. Jr.
Barry Ryan, Jr.; Durant Rose, Walter
X. Phelps, Reginald p Rose, Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney. Julius Wadsworth.
Gerald Warburg and Norman S. Walker.
Dinner for Miss whitney.
Another dinner in advance of Mr.. and
Mrs. Batterman's dance was given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard w. Maxwell Of Is
East Eighty-fourth street for their niece,
Miss Caroline Whitney. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Howard F. Whitney. who is a
student at Vassar. The other guests
were Misses Mary Steers. Sylvia Con-
way. Marjorie Hughes and Angeline
Garrison. Midshipman John J. Pierre
pont, also Messrs. Samuel II. Ordway,
Jr.; Harold Thorne, Donald Bush, Rob-
ert Goelier. Frank Adams. Eugene l..
Maxwell. David Dutton and Richard
Frothingham.
Miss Cornelia Livingston, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodhue Livingston, gave
dinner party last night before the
Robinson alumnae dance In the Plaza.
Her guests were chiefly girls who will
not make their debuts in society for a
year or two. A dance for girls not yet
out will be held Thursday night in the
Colony Club. and a similar assembly is
to be at the first of the Metropolitan
Dances in the Colony Club In the Ritz
Carlton Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham Lusk of 535
Park avenue gave a dance in the ball
room of the Colony Club to introduce
their daughter. Miss Louise Lusk. In
advance of it Mrs. Henry w. de Forest
gave a dinner for Miss Lusk at the
club and among her guests we're Misses
Maud Cabot. Molly de Forest. Eliza