The New York herald., 1922-12-29
MANY HOLIDAY PARTIES GIVEN
FOR YOUNGER SET IN SOCIETY
Debutantes Have Prominent
but Not Exclusive Part in
Days Festivities.

Another round OF parties kept the
younger element in society on the go
early and late yesterday. The largest
OF the dances last night was one Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Daniel Orth gave in
the main bali room suite Of the Ritz
Carlton to introduce Mrs. Orth's daugh-
ter, Miss Kathryn knight. Other dances
given last night by Mrs. AIinturn Pin
chot, Mrs. Thomas Bealle Davis and
Mrs John 7. Pratt were for young peos
pie at home for the holidays. the girl
guests to be numbered among debutantes
of the future.
In advance of the dance given for
Miss Knight she was a special guest at
a dinner given by Mr., and Mrs Howard
c. Brokaw at 9s4 Fifth avenue for their
daughter, Miss Julia Brolkaw. Among
the other guests were Misses Cathleen
Vanderbilt. Polly Mccall. Claire Schenck,
Cornelia r. Livingston, Betty Condor,
Harriet Reynolds. Betty Gilbert. Messrs.
Hendrix Pruyp, Edward Mathews, Rob-
ert Graham. Leslie C. Kountze. Edward
Cady, Chester Dane and Walter Watson
Stokes, Jr.
The ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton was
gay with Christmas decorations for Mr..
and Mrs. Orth's dance. The guests
were received by the, host and
hostess and the debutante. assist
ed by the girls who had attended Mr..
and Mrs. Brokaw's dinner Some of the
married friends of the family and many
OF the deoutantes of the season we're
present. Among the married guests
were Mr.. and Mrs Donald Cowl, Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Drexel, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs
Truman p. Handy. Mr. and Mrs. w.
NJ re
Knight. Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Carroll i.
Wainwright, Mr.. and Mrs. John A. Lar
kin. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles d. Orth, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Richards.
Mrs. Pratt Gives Dance.
But mot all the dances of last night
were for debutantes Mrs. John I. Pratt
gave one at East Sixty-flrst street
for her daughter. Miss Virginia Pratt,
and her son, Mr.. John It. Pratt, Jr., who
are /at home for the holidays from
school and college. Mrs. Thomas Bealle
Davis gave a dance mt the Colony Club
for her daughter. Miss Mallory Davis.
who is at home from F'oxcroft School,
the guests including school friends.
Mrs. Minturn Pnchot gave small
dance at 8 East Eighty-first street for
her daughter, Miss Rosamond Plnchot
who viii not be formally introduced TO
society until another year. In advance
Of the dance Mrs. Alexis w. Stein gave
dinner at the Colony Club for Miss
Pinchot and Miss Cornela Van Rens-
selaer Robb
The other guests were Misses Flor
ence Lockwood, Maud Cabot, Kathleen
Stoddart. Frances Goodhue, Sally Cabot
of Boston, Helen Tefft Matilda c. Els
worth, Barbara -Schieffelin, Charts Derii-
son and Dorothy iselln; also the Mar
uuis of Donegal. Messrs. Clifford Bryce
Pinchot, Bayard Wharton, Benoni Lock
wood. Jr., Dexter Hawkins. Ogden Nc
Cagg, Curzon Taylor, Frederic Warburg,
Bancel and Henry La Fargo, Robert
Hale. John Fife, James Greenway. John
s. Melcher. Jr, John Wilkes and Charles
Harding.
Mrs Frederick Hewitt Parks gave n
| luncheon yesterday at the Ritz-Carlton
for her granddaughter, Miss Florence
Parks Kimbley, daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs Frank Ray Kimbiey. The guests
We're Misses Elizabeth, Armstrong. Polly
Mccall, Katherine Kelley. Julia Brokaw,
Frances Budlong. Barbara Kellogg. Bar
bara Brownlee. Beatrice Bayne Betty
Condor, Beatrice Black, Elizabeth Cav
thra, Jane Dunham. Kate b. Darlington.
Dorothy Fitch and Lucy Gawthrop
Also Misses Dora Hotchkiss, Clarissa
Hurd, Helen jenkins. Kathryn Knight.
Isabel Walker Olive Green. Margaret
Sloane Manson. Grace Brown, Dorothy
Morrill,, Mary Moore. Virginia Quacken-
bush, LYDIA Plunkett, Ann Phelps. Olivia
Sterner. Claire Schenck, Hariot Rey-
nolds. Emily Wright. Maud KnowltoD
Smith. Margaret Stone, Emily Schnie-
wind. Elizabeth Strong. Elise Schreiber
Adele Thompson. Audrey Barclay VI
man, Alice Mckim Voss and Patty
Woodruff.
Mrs Dudley Roberts gave luncheon
at pierre's yesterday for her daughter.