New-York tribune., 1922-11-19
Week Most Brilliant Since
Before War and Society
Is Kept Busy With
Many Entertainments Is
Two OF Dancing
Classes Under Way
Debusantes Are Guests of
Honor at Luncheons.
Dinners and Dances

- with the premiere at tn,
Metropolitan Opera House, followed
during the week by number of smar
Dances including the one by Miss Har
Yiet Pratt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Esrbert L. Pratt, on Wednesday night
sae by Mr.. and Mrs. Otto II. Kahn, OF
Thursday, and one by Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ssrd f. Hutton, Friday night, both o.
be latter for Lord and Lady Mountbat
IN, who arrived early in the week from
Nshington. In addition to these af
Es for the distinguished foreigners
ii the older set the debutantes were
ssrtained at luncheons, dinners and
cal dances.
Two of the dancing classes also start.
ID thcir seasons, the Bachelors on Fri
asy in the Della Robbia Room of the
Eotel Vanderbilt and the Pail Mall
isnees at the Hotel Lorraine. 1t was
y far the most brilliant opening week
tast society has had since before the
World War.
The smartest debutante affair was
.ae luncheon given on Wednesday a,
.he Colony Club by Mrs. William G.
Rockefeller for Miss Abby Rockefeller
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller jr. In the absence Of the
hostess the dcbutante's mother re-
csiyed the guests.
Plans for Introduction
Of Miss Abby Rockefeller
Miss Rockefeller will be formally in
.iodaeed to society on Wednesday at
reception with music which her
neither will give for her at their
home. West Fifty-fourth Street.
IN sddition, to opera and the enter
taiamsnts 81 the week society was in
tcressst y the several important en-
ssgeae1is announced. One of them
vas shat Of Miss Katharine B. Bliss,
daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Phelps Bliss, of East Eighty
Street, to Mr.. Hermann D. Boxer, SON
o. Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Frederick Boxer,
SfssEast Sixty ninth Street. Miss Bliss
was Introduced to society three seasons
ago and is a member of the Junior
League. She is a sister of Miss Sibyll
D Bliss, one of this seasons debutan-
ses, for whom dance will be given at
the Ritz-Carlton on December / by an
other sister, Mrs. Hermann C. Schwab.
Mr.. Boxer is q graduate of Princeton,
class 'l2. He is president of the Cyclops
Steel Company. His sister is Miss Rita
Boxer and Mr., Carl f. Boxer jr a
brother. No date has been set for the
wedding.
Miss James is Engaged
To Mr.. Henry E. Coe jr.
Announcement has been made of the
engagement Of Miss Eunice James,
daughter Of DR.. and Mrs. Walter, B.
9aines, OF East seventieth Street, who
engaged to Mr.. Henry E. Coe jr., son
o. Mr. and Mrs Henry e. Coe, Of s
East Tenth Street. Miss James made
fsr debut in 1919 at large dance
gwen at the home of her parents. Mr..
Zoe Is Yale graduate Of the class Of
II Mr.. COLES J. Coe is his brother
sna Miss Rosalie Coe is his sister. No
date has been set for the wedding.
Nh. and Mrs. benjamin Lathrop, of
New York and London, have announced
The engagement of their daughter, Miss
Elsie Lathrop, to Mr.. w. r. K. Taylor
j., the son of Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. K.
Taylor, Of 80 West Fifty-fourth Street.
The announcement.was made yesterday
aa luncheon given by Mrs. Lathrop at
tie Colony Club.
Miss Lathrop made her debut in Lon
ssn last year and is spending the
WINTER with her mother and younger
sister at the Plaza. Mr.. Lathrop is a
partner in the banking firm of Ray
aaad Pincion, Of New York and Lon
s0n. Mrs. Lathrop was an active man
ssss OF the American fund for French
s0unded in France during the war and
s ascorated for her services by the
sseaeh government with the Legion Of
Juror. She is member Of the
sssssas family OF early American
s,saaship fame and Of Stevens In
s'ss, Hoboken, and OF the Otis
N cf early Massachusetts,. The
soaswere among the early pioneers
iotnia and one of their members
@sa. Leland Stanford, who with
A. =. husband provided ss0,0oo,Oo0 en-
ssSaaens fuad for Stanford University.
ae Taylor family is well known in
~ new York and Virginia society
iaglor is prominent in Junior
!. ssae activities. Mr.. W. r. x. Taylor
- served in the ,s,,xy d,,r;,,, 49,. x,o,.