The Washington times., 1925-05-25
DEBUT AN TES
TOBEBANNER
GROUP
'Line Up Already in Prog
ress; Dates for Next
Winter Being Selected
BY JEAN ELIOT.

A LTHOUGH Washington doesn't
IN subscribe to the good old Phila
4 n delphia custom of presenting
its debutantes during the Spins
mothers of prospective buds are
learning something of the value OF
mapping out the season beforehand
Dates are already being engaged
for balls and debut teas scheduled
for next November or December
and it is even now possible 10 gel
a pretty definite idea of what the
debutante lineup for next winter
will be.
A winsome group they are, and
as many of the girls come from
families which have wealth as we'll
as position, indications are that II
will be a very gay season.
Thanksgiving Day, always popu-
lar, has already been pre-empted py
Mrs. Frederick H Brooke for the
tea she will give to introduce her
bonny daughter, Miss FRANCES
Mckee, to her friends in Wash.
ington. And ether girls wno viii
be presented during the same week.
IL present plans go through, are
Miss Halle Brooke, daughter of
Major and Mrs. Mark Brooke, Miss
Lenore Scullin, daughter of Mrs.
Lee Warren, and Miss Lydia Stokes,
daughter of the Reverend Doctor
and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes.
Miss Suzette Dewey, the dainty
little daughter of the Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs.
Charles Dewey, who will have
tea given for her toward the end
Of November and a ball just before
Christmas, ais already having a
preliminary fIutter during the Lon
don season and was presented at
the Court of st. James on the
occasion OF the first drawing room.
Then. there's Miss Rosamond Reed,
daughter of Senator and Mrs. David
A. Reed, who spent last winter
studying at the Sorbonne and who
has just returned to this country
after travelling a bit in Italy with
audience with the king and queen
OF Italy. Senator and Mrs. Reed
are also planning tea for their
daughter during Thanksgiving week.
Miss Drake Another Debutante
From Official Society.
Another debutante from official
society will be Miss Rosalie Drake.
daughter of The Assistant Secretary
OF Commerce and Mrs. J. Walter
Drake. who has been in college
since the brakes came to Wash
ington Captain and Mrs. Walter
Gherardi will present their daugh-
ter. Miss Neville Gherardi, to So
ciety.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hampson Gary are
bringing out their daughter, Miss
Oft n0
ber 21-or is it December 22?-her
nineteenth birthday. And Mrs.
Anne Archbold's daughter, Miss
Anne Archbold, is also to have her
formal coming out next winter.
Miss Archbold is a granddaughter
of the late John d. Archbold, of
Standard Oil fame, his daughter
having deserted New York and Eng
land, where she lived for a long
time, in favor of Washington. Her
home out back of Western High
School is built after the Italian
fashion and is one of the loveliest
IN Washington. Captain Gherardi
Is now aide to the Secretary Of the
Navy, but he was long attache of
our embassy in Berlin and his
little daughter has lived much
abroad.
s. Miss Lille Roosevelt, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert B. Roosevelt,
IS also to be a debutante, with her
coming out tea set for some time in
December and a dance to be given
later on. Mrs. Alec Legare, now
abroad, proposes to present her
daughter, Miss Grace Waggaman,
daughter of the late Clarke Wagga-
man; and 1 suppose the whole huge
Waggaman clan will entertain for
her. An another bud will be Miss
Louise McLanahan, daughter of
Mrs. George X McLanahan. The
McLanahans have been away from
Washington for the greater part
of the last several years, living
abroad for some time and later
at New Haven. But if the younger
girl is nearly as attractive as her
sister, Miss Helen McLanahan, it's
safe to predict a most successful
season for her I'm told, too, that
Halle Brooke is a dear. with much
of the charm of her mother, who.
as Marie Barnes, was a great belle
here in her girlhood. And if Helen
Gary has half her mothers beauty
and charm