Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-10
Debutantes Now Hold Sway
on New York Society Stage
Honor Receptions, Dinners and Dances Con
sp1cuously Feature Season Calendar-Com-
mittee Planning for Beaux Arts Ball.

NEW YORK, November 9.-The de-
butantes will hold the center of the
social stage from now until after the
Christmas holidays and luncheons. re-
ceptions. dinners and dances in their
honor follow one another In rapid Sue
cession In fact, so numerous become
the parties that It seems almost phys
ical impossibility to keep up with the
social engagements. The dances end
at or 4 o'clock in the morning and
the young women have to be ready for
luncheon parties by o'clock and before
that have their appointments at the
hairdressers, the dreSSmaker, etc. 1t Is
small wonder that by the first of the
year most of them have to take q rest
cure. In fact, many of them break
down when the season Is half over.
Mrs. Clifford S. Sims will give a
debutante luncheon at Sherry's Monday
in honor of her daughter, Miss Martha
Lee Sims Tomorrow Mr.. and Mrs.
Leonard Cox will give tea for Miss
Rosalind KresS. debutante daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Claude w. Kress.
Mrs. William Woods Plankinton will
for her debutante daughter, Miss Eliza
beth S. Plankinton. On the same day
Mrs. John Sargent of Greenwich. Conn,
will give a luncheon at Sherry's for
her debutante daughter, Miss Jean Sar-
gent. Mrs. Allen Merrill Rogers will
give a luncheon Wednesday at Sherry's
for her debutante daughter, Miss Kath-
crime M Rogers.
Other Buds Are Listed
For Honor Ceremonial.
Miss Dorothy Evans, who will be in
troduced to society at dinner and
dance to be given New Year night by
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs, Arthur Brew
ster, will be the guest of honor at
luncheon Thursday by Mrs. Thomas
Webster Edgar.
several parties will be given Friday,
November is. Former Gov. Charles S.
Whitman will be host at an afternoon
reception in the Colony Club TO intro
duce his daughter, Miss Olive Whit
man, for whom he will give. dinner
dance, also at the club, November 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Parker Stevens VIII
introduce their daughter, Miss Alice
Pendleton Stevens, at dinner-oance
at the Ritz-Carlton November Is and
Mrs. Charles Pinkney Sumner will give
a luncheon November is for her debu-
tante niece, Miss Beatrice Carroll.
The same night Mrs. Frederick H.
Douglas of Seabright N. j., will be
hostess at dinner at PierreS to intro
duce her daughters, Miss Elizabeth
Douglas and Miss Janet Douglas. Mr..
and Mrs. Condo Mast will entertain at
4 dinner and dance In their residence
November Is for the Misses Wurzburg,
debutante daughters OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Francis Lewis Wurzburg. go,
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis P. Caravan will
give a ball at the Ritz-Carlton Satur-
day, November Is, for Miss Margaret
Dune debutante daughter Of Mr. ana
Mrs. Peter Finley Dunno.
Betrothal Announced,
wedding Due in Spring.
Mr.. and Mrs George Wood Bacon OF
"a West Sixty-Seventh street and ST.
James, Long Island, have announced the
engagement of their daughter Ellzapetn
to Mr.. Anthony Francis Bisgood OF
London, England, and TINS city. MISS
Bacon comes of distinguished ancestry.
Sir Nicholas Bacon and Lord Francis
Bacon of England and Samuel Bacon,
who settled in Barnstable, Mass, about
the middle of the seventeenth century,
are among her ancestors. Through ner
mother Miss Bacon Is q descendant OF
the Whittleseys of New England. MISS
Bacon attended the Mary @. wheeler
graduated from Smith College. she
was introduced to society In New York
N the Winter of 1925.
Mr.. Bisgood is the son of Mrs. e. B.
De Rendon and of Wilfred Bisgood Of
London. He attended the Royal Naval
Colleges of Osborn and Dartmouth,
England. His clubs include the Royal
Thames and the New York Yacht. He
is in business in this city. The wedding
will take place in the early spring.
Plans for Beaux Arts Ball
In Hands Of Committee.
The executive committee for the
Beaux Arts Ball, which is to be held
January "a in the Hotel Aston, met re-
Gently in the headquarters of the Society
Of Beaux Arts Architects in the Beaux
Arts Institute of Design Building, and
awarded prizes for the designs sub
..aittna IN ccrnrnetitinrn for the cnuer Of