Evening star., 1924-12-20
Miss Helen Marye TO
Make Debut This Afternoon.

Miss Helen Marye to
Make Debut This Afternoon.
Former United States Ambassador to
Russia and Mrs. George 7. Marye will
| entertain at tea dance this afternoon
In their home, at 1900 ~ street, when
they will present their daughter, Miss
Helen Marye, to society. The house has
charming arrangement of pink and
white roses, and Mrs. Marye and the
bud will receive standing In front of a
long mirror banked with roses and ferns
Mrs. Marye Will wear a gown of gold
and black lace, made on gracefully
| draped lines. with a large rose shading
| from pink to gold caught at one side
OF the skirt. The debutante will wear an
| imported frock Of white net over cloth
of silver, made on straight lines and
quite short. The net is embroidered
with crystals, and the skirt has three
rows Of real lace insertion. with a gar
| land of white gardenias caught at the
left side. She will carry an arm bouquet
of yellow roses and orchids.
Alternating at the tea table will
be Mrs. Breckenridge Long, Mrs. Rose
Wallach Merriam. Mrs. Horace West
colt and Mrs. Conger Pratt. Assist
ing in the dining room will be Miss
Beatrice Henderson, Miss Gratia
Houghton. Miss Elizabeth Parker,
Miss Violet Spencer, Miss Louise
Clayton, Miss Carolyn Chamberlain,
Miss Louise Ireland, Miss Elizabeth
Johnson, Miss Eleanor Wilson, Miss
Anne Hill and Miss Gertrude Muir
ply OF San Francisco, who is visit
ing Miss Marye over the holidays.
The Misses Doyle, aunts of the
debutante, Will also assist, Miss Cal
lie Doyle wearing a gown of ecru
| lace and Miss Flora Doyle will be
in black velvet.
Following the tea Mr.. and Mrs.
Marye Will entertain the assistants
at buffet supper, and this evening
Marye by her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. William Henry West
will give a large tea this afternoon
from to Z o'clock In their home at
1743 . street to present their daugh-
ter, Miss Margaret West, TO society
Mr.. and Mrs. West and their daugh-
ter will receive, Mrs. West wearing
| a gown of dull antique gold cloth,
made on straight lines and the debu-
| tante In a dainty frock, the bodice
of crystals and the bouffant skirt OF
flesh color and pale pink tulIe. Miss
West will carry an arm bouquet of
American Beauty roses.
Presiding at the tea table will be
Nine. Bryn, Mrs. James F. Mitchell,
Mrs. Thomas Bell Sweeney and Mrs
Charles Selden, jr., and the table will
have a centerpiece of American Beau
" roses Assisting will be Miss Bar
bara Stanfield, Miss Eliza beth Suther-
land, Miss Anne Covington, Miss
Kathrine Dunlop, Miss Beatrice Nc
Lean, Miss Eleanor Hard, Miss Eliza
beth Johnson, Miss Gratia Houghton,
Miss Louise Clayton Miss Hilda Ann
Hill. Miss Mary Treadwell, Miss Eliza
beth Stiles, Miss Elinor Haley OF Mont
claire, n. j.; Miss Helen Gary and
Miss Adelaide Henry.
Mr.. and Mrs. West will entertain
the assistants and a few additional
guests at a buffet supper after the
tea, and preceding the ball, which
viii be given Friday evening, ;Janu-
airy 2, at the New Willard for the
benefit Of the Children's Hospital,
they will be hosts at dinner for their
daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Meade Lea will
be hosts at dinner this evening, en-
tertaining a party OF 10.
Mr. David E. Finley and Mr.. Floyd
Blair Will entertain at dinner this
evening, in honor of Mss Violet
Spencer.
Mrs Herbert d. Brown, wife OF the
director of the Bureau Of Efficiency,
will entertain at tea this afternoon
In compliment to her daughter. Miss
Constance Connor Brown. and the
latter's house guest, Miss Dorothy
Collins OF Lakeport, n. II.
Mrs. Royal McKenna entertained
at luncheon today at the Shoreham
In honor of Nine ]. A. L. van den
Bosch, who has arrived in Washing