The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-07-23
DEBUTANTES
LISTED FOR
NEXT YEAR,
Army, Navy, and Marine
Corps Represented
in Group
By JEAN, ELIOT

IVA these midsummer days to the
debutantes OF next season, an i'm
posing list has been compiled ane
already dates have been chosen fol-
many OF their debut parties.
In Philadelphia 1t Is the custom
for the NEST Influential matrons
In society to present their daugh'
tiers at their suburban estates on
the ssAdain Line" or other fashion
able suburbs, spring and early
autumn being the favored seasons.
In Baltimore the dabutanteS are
presented together at the first
.cotiIlion OF the year. Fond nlanias
may do as much or as little en-
tsrtaining afterwards as they please,
but no Baltimore debutante 10 con-
sidered q success without the cachet
Aok the Monday german.
Crowded Debutante Season
Here In washington the custom
% slightly different. There is moth
ing to take the place OF the MONDAY
germans. and 1t Is not until about
Thanksgiving time that coming OUT
parties begin to figure on the social
caiendar. Christmas comes along
pretty soon, and after that the
WAl1LAG1 0EASOAx--fl - Ne-RAS~A - -
kha true debutaflte season between
Thanksgiving and Christmas u
likely TO be pretty crowded.
For this reason plans for debu-
aante parties are now made months
ahead, and mothers who nave nad
experience 4 few seasons back, with
confusion OF dates worse con-
founded, feel that they owe q debt
% gratitude 70 Helen Ray Hagner,
Who. through her social bureau.
keeps the debutants festivities
straight and tries to see that there
Is no duplication Of conflicting
parties on certain popular dates.
AIra. Hagner, by the way, has
moved her social bureau from the
Willard to 1873 n st. But that,
after all, Is quite another story.
'sOId Washington" Represented
The Army. Navy and Marine
Corps are to be well represented
among the debutantes. Of next sea-
son and the group includes tive or
three girls who stand for ''old
Washington" Among the latter
are Miss Florence Marlatt, who is
TO be presented by her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles i. Mariatt, Miss.
Nancy Hamilton, pretty daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. John J. Hamilton
and niece OF Mr.. and Mrs. George
2. Hamilton, and Miss Rebecca
Lipseonb, daughter Of Mrs. Charles
G. Lipscomb.
Miss Lipscomb's mother was a
Blaine, sister of Mrs. Thomas F..
MaIlan and Mrs. Henry J. Crosson
and q niece Of the late James G.
Blaine. The daughter has been at
college-Vassar. believe-and has
not spent many of her vacations
here. But she is described as
pretty and charming, with a knack
for wearing lovely clothes in a
dashing way. Her mother, who has
an apartment at Wardman Park Ho-
tel, Is a dear. Miss Marldtt is a
granddaughter of Mrs. Alexander
Mackay.Smith and of the late
Bishop Mackay-Smith. Mrs. Mar
latt il the oldest of the three
Mackay- Smith girls. Her sisters
ore Nine. Karl Boyd, now visit.
ing her mother in Maine. and Mrs
William Bell Watkins, Of Philadel.
phia and Virginia.
Two Bonny Buds
Plans for a series of parties for
two charming buds are being made
by Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman B. Kendall
and by Colonel and Mrs. Arthur
O'Brien. Both the Kendalls and
the 0'Briens have lovely new
suburban homes, perfectly adapted
for entertaining, the o'Briens' place
gkirting the edge Of Rock Creek
Park and Kentsdale, the Kendalls'
place being out in the general
direction Of the Congressional Coun-
try Club. Mr.. and Mrs. Kendall
are presenting Miss Jane Kendall,
q lovely slip OF q blonde, and the
debutante In the o'Brien family IL
Mrs. O'Brien's daughter, Miss
Alison Roebling.
Mr.. and Mrs. Copley Amory, Of
New York, transplanted last winter
TO Washington, are to bring out
their daughter, Miss Katherine
Amory, and are, hear, planning a
lot Of parties for her. She was
firsto listed among last years
debutantes, as was Miss Helen Rob-
inson, daughter Of the Assistant
Secretary OF the Navy, but both
girls decided to go back to school
for a year. And believe Miss
Robinson will also come out this
year, although no formal announce
ment to that effect has yet been
made. Mr.. Amory is serving in the
Department Of the Interior on some
important work which has to do
with the Reclamation Service.
Colonel and Mrs. Edward Cliff
fofd's daughter. Miss Helen Cliff.
ford, will also make her debut
here this season. The Clifords are
Chicago people. who came to town