The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-21
NEW YORK IS
MECCA FOR
OUR GIRLS
Numerous Popular Wash
ingtonians to Desert
Capital This Month
nv LEAN ELIOT

York is robbing Washington
u of the debutantes Of last year,
the year before and-well' one doesn't
count back farther than that-it's
q good thing the coming season
can boast a bumper crop of buds to
fill their places.
The announcement that Mrs.
Robert Nelson Stanfield, wife of
Senator Stanfield, and her pretty
daughter, Miss Barbara Stanfieid,
have arrived in New York, where
the latter will pass the winter
studying music, calls attention to,
the size and interest of the group OF
Washington girls who have decided
to put in a winter in New York,
with the determination to devote
themselves to the arts-music,
painting or the dance-as their
motive in cutting themselves off
, from the gayeties of the Capital.
The name of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Hays Hammond's daughter, Miss
! Natalie Hammond, is the latest to
be tentatively added to a list which
includes Miss Betty Byrne, Miss
Ruth Stoddard, Miss Margaret Zol-
nay and, possibly, Miss Barrine
! Drake. The Hammonds are still
away, so the only available infor-
: nation as to their plans is CLEANED
from occasional letters from Miss
Hammond to her friends here. They
contain the news that she wants
very much to settle down in New
York for the winter; and, as she
usually gets what she wants, it
seems probable that he will. 1t
! IL limited that she has theatrical
Inspirations. but as to that l can't
sneak authoritatively
Barbara Stanfield is an exception
ally gifted violinist and it will be
remembered that she studied music
! I'm Italy for a year or two before
her debut What's more to her credit
is the fact that she managed to
Ekeep up her music all through the
gayeties of brilliant Ndebutante's
sseason.
Miss Ruth Stoddard Studying Art
Ruth Stoddard, daughter of Mrs.
Joseph Stoddard, is already estab-
-lished in New York and up to her
Gears in developing her gift for art.
She is living at the Three Arts Club.
Miss Betty Byrne, daughter Of Mrs.
Stanton j. Peelle. is still in Cali
sfornia with her mother, but If she
goes to New York, as she was plan
ming when she left town in the
early summer, it will be. like Ruth
Stoddard. to devote herself to the
study of art She is exceptionally
talented and has not let the gayety
of two highly successful seasons In
-terfere with her work at the Cor
1coran School of Art.
s Margaret Zolnay has been work
ting hard at her dancing in New
York all summer, and, although she
has long aspired to a professional
career. she has refused several ex-
celIent offers in order to acquire a
Finish that only comes from hard
work before making her debut be-
fore the footlights. She will be
snaost happily situated in New York
This winter, as her parents, Mr.. ana
Mrs. George Julian Zolnay, Will
spend the winter there and have
taken a charming studio apartment
in Gramercy Park. Mr.. Zolnay,
who is internationally known as
Sculptor, has a number of commits
1sions in New York and will com
smute" to Washington to carry out
sthe work he has in line here. The
-Zofnays, who hope to rent their
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picturesque studio, expect to leave
Tor New York tomorrow.
If Miss Drake, daughter OF Col
aneI and Mrs. Charles B. Drake,
Deserts Washington, too, 1t VIII De
80 study music in New York and
ahe and Miss Katherine MCNEIL,
IF Washington, will probably be to-
skether. Miss Mcneil has been
abroad all summer working at her
music.
To Have New York Apartment
Miss Margaret Treadweli, daugh-
Ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawson Tread
well, is another Washington girl,
A friend of most of this group, who
will spend the winter in New York,
but l have not heard that she is
koing specifically for artistic de-
Eelopment Mr.. and Mrs, Tread
well, who have been at Asheville,
n. c., for several months, expect
90 take an apartment in New York
For the winter and their daughter