The New York herald., 1921-12-31
YOUNG PEOPLE ATTEND MANY
HOLIDAY DINNERS AND DANCES
Misses Barbara and Joan Whit
ney and Miss Dodge Guests
at Large Party.

While there We're no large private
that kept the young people well occu-
pied. Mr.. and Mrs. Courtlandt Dixon
barnes gave a supper and dance in
Pierre's for their young relatives. Miss
Barbara Whitney. a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney: Miss
Joan Whitney. daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Payne Whitney, and Miss jose
phine j. Dodge, a daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Marshall j. Dodge. all debutantes.
Miss Joan Whitney. in the absence
OF her parents in the South, entertained
twenty friends at dinner at her home.
They included Mr. and Mrs. Court
landt D. Barnes, the Misses Katharine
Porter. Barbara Whitney. Felicia Fisk,
Virginia Ryan, Gertrude Sanford and
Marie Norton, and Messrs Alan Harri-
man, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney,
Frederick S. Allen. Barclay Henry,
Gerald G. Phllb!n. Warren Leslie.
Charles A. Clark. George Wrenn and
John Barry Ryan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dodge entertained as
many more guests at their home.
The guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes,
who went to Pierre for supper num-
bered about $50. and with the excep-
tlon OF few of their married friends
they included the debutantes and young
men home from college.
Bachelors Dances start.
The first OF the new series of dances
by the Bachelors, which was held last
night In the Della Robbin room of the
Vanderbilt. found there many of the
patrons of the former series for sup
per after the opera and theaters.
The patronesses are Mines. Vincent
Astor. George #. Baker, Jr.: James A.
Burden, Jr. Marshall Field, W. Goadby
Loew, George b. Post, Jr.; Cornelius
Vanderbilt William X. Vanderbilt I'd,
Whitney Warren. r. Thornton Wilson,
Harry Payne Whitney and Henry
Rogers Winthrop. Thus far the Bache-
lors have distributed among home chari-
ties $4,000 The dances will continue
on Friday nights through January.
The third of the Miramar supper
dances, the proceeds of Which will be
devoted to charity, was held last night
i'm the rose room of the Plaza instead
of tonight. The patronesses include
Mrs. Albert r. Gallatin, Mrs. Leonard
Cox, Mrs. Raymond Havemeyer, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jr., and Mrs.
jeremiah Milbank
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Schniewind. Jr.,
gave last night at 5 East Seventy-ninth
street a small dinner followed by
dance to introduce their second daugh-
ter. Miss Margaret NJ. Schniewind. who
recently returned from Europe with her
mother The guests were Misses Bar
bara Brokaw, Marion de Rham, Beatrice
Batterrnan. Josefa Watjen and Emily
Schniewind also Messrs. Richard B.
Aver, Samuel Smith. Clifford " Brokaw,
Jr., Lewis Gibb Donald Greeff. John
Ficks. Theodore Romaine, John Niesley.
Gerald warburg, George Post and Rob
ert Scot About 800 others came in
for supper and dancing.
The Misses Alice and Bertha ireland
OF 1909 Madison avenue gave supper
and dance last night in the ballroom OF
the Gotham to Introduce their niece,
Miss Florence A. Brush. Among the
guests were Mr. and Mrs. William W.
McAlpin, Mr. and Mrs. David Town
send, DR. and Mrs. Edward Robinson,
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Smith. Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. William
Peck. DR.. and Mrs. George Davis. Mr.
and Mrs. Philip Hopper. Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick Macdonald. Misses Elizabeth
Pritchard, Eleanor Hubbard, Hyacinth
A. stuphen. Katharine Bull and Dor
othy Brough.
Luncheon for Miss Strong.
Mrs Edwin A. Strong of 565 Park
avenue gave the second OF series or
luncheons yesterday for her debutante
daughter. Miss Elizabeth Strong. Among
the guests were Misses Louisa Steedman
Wilson, Katharine Blackwell. Mary An
derson, Dorothy Rose. Catherine w.
Dews. Mary Noyes, Edith Holden, MILL
cent Barnard, Paula Siedenburg, Susan
Bowers Coppell. Mary Louise Deming.
Nina Chatillon, Mary Sheffield and Ger
trude Pardee. Mrs. Strong will give
dinner for her daughter next Monday
night 10 precede the dance which Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Church are giving
at the Plaza for their niece, Miss Char
lotte Church.
Some Of the future debutantes were
present last night AT the first OF the
Metropolitan Dances at the Ritz-Carlton
These dances nave been carried on for
twenty years, the first meeting having