The Washington times., 1924-12-29
DEBU 7 AN ES
R EIG N
TODAY
Parties for Buds and
Sub-debs Are on
Calendar
BY JEAN ELIOT.

NN1AN1sAAGOS c@AA0 SAAOAG SuW'
Il deb sisters are having things
pretty much their own way today,
with Miss Hilda Ann Hill making
her debut this afternoon, Judge
and Mrs. Harry Covington giving
a dinner tonight for their debutante
daughter, Miss Anne Covington,
and whole grist Of parties for
the younger set scheduled for both
afternoon and evening.
Miss Covington is very explicit
in denying that the dance tonight
is her formal coming out party.
This she expects to have later,
probably some time in February
when Judge and Mrs. Covington
will have taken possession Of their
new home in Wyoming avenue. The
dance tonight, which will be given
at Rauscher's, is a young peoples
party. The guests will number
nearly 500 and will be greeted by
Mrs. Covington and her daughter,
receiving together. Miss Coving-
ton will wear a.,1white. flat crepe
frock, made on straight lines and
trimmed with gold embroidery.
Miss Hill Presented at Tea
At Homo In Bancroft Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Alexander
Hill are presenting their daughter,
Miss Hilda Ann Hill, to society at
a tea this afternoon from to Z
o'clock in their home at 2135 Ban,
croft place. The. house is attrac-
lively decorated in La France roses,
white llacs, palms and ferns. s
The debutante is wearing a
charming frock Of white georgette
beaded in crystals and made on
straight lines. She is carrying La
France roses and white gardenias.
Mrs. Hill is gowned in silver cloth
woven over hunters greenr made,
in draped style.
Assisting Mrs. Hill are Mrs. John
HULL Mrs. Barry Mohun, Mrs. Mil
ton Elliott and Mrs. Charles Nc.
Kenney. In the group OF young
girls assisting Miss Hill are Miss
Elizabeth Johnson, Miss Elizabeth
Mohun, Miss Anne Covington and
her guest, Miss Mary Ross, Of
Easton, Maryland; Miss Margaret
West, Miss Beatrice Mclean. Miss
Mollie Crawford, Of Rye, N. Y, who
is visiting in the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Courtney Stillwell
of Chicago and the debutante's
younger sister, Miss Dorothy Hill.
Following the tea the receiving
party will be entertained at dinner
by Mr.. and Mrs. Barry Mohun and
later will attend the dance to be
given for Miss Covington by her
parents.
Guests from the dinner which
Doctor and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor
are giving for their daughter, Miss.
tvn vnH
ment to her brother and sister-in-
Grosvenor, win also go to the Gov
ington's ball.
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Metropolitan Club AHght;
Congressional Club Also.
One of the most festive Of the
sub.deb parties will be given to.
night at the Metropolitan Club an
mex, with Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Meyer, jr.. and Major and Mrs.
Harry Leonard as joint hosts. The
youthful guests, numbering some
$50 and ranging in age from four
teen to eighteen, have been asked
to meet Mr.. and Mrs. Meyers
daughter, Miss Florence Meyer and
Miss Ellen Thoron, daughter of
Mrs. Leonard. The dance will end
at the discreet hour of midnight,
1t will be preceded by a dinner
party for nineteen at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyer.
The dance which Congressman and
Mrs. Clyde Kelly are giving tonight
at the Congressional Club will also
be attended by many Of the boys and
girls home from school and college
Tor the holidays. William Alexander
Clementson, son of Mrs. Kelly, is
to be the particular hero for this
event as it falls on his seventeenth
birthday, but his younger brother,
Merrill Clementson, will share honors
at the dance.
At seventeen "Billy" Clementson
is in his first year at Harvard. He's
q clever youngster, and an aWfully
nice one, good looking, and not too
pleased with himself. He graduated
last year from Eastern High, with
all sortsSof honors, as well as the
very practical one Of having won the
only Harvard scholarship offered in
this district. No wonder his mother
Is proud of him!
And so, for that matter, is Mr..
Kelly-as proud of those two boys
as II they were his own. Mrs,
Kelly was q Mrs. Clementson, and
had been widow for several years
when she married Congressman
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