Evening star., 1929-12-01
Ceremonies to Honor
Group of Society Buds
In National Capital
Debutantes Honor Guests at
Luncheons. Suppers, DIM
ners and Teas When Max
ing Formal Society Bows.

Miss Janet Randolph Ball, daughter
of Mrs. Watson. wife Of Representative
Henry Winfield watson, will be the
honor guest at a luncheon December
II Of Mrs. William Conant. Miss Ball
will be presented to society at q tea
given by Representative and Mrs. Wat
son December z.
Miss Junia Culbertson, debutante
daughter of the United States AM
basSador to Chile and Mrs. William S.
CulbertSon. will be the honor guests at
luncheon Thursday Of Mrs. Howard S.
Leroy. Mrs. Wilson Compton will give
luncheon December 10 for the bud.
Signora Catalani, wife of the second
counselor of the Italian embassy, enter
tanned at luncheon Tuesday for Sig
norma Vittoria Catalani, debutante
niece of Signor iCatalani. Due to the
illness of SONORA Catalani, Mrs. Dimock
acted as hostess. The. company in
cluded Countess Cornelia Szechenyi,
Miss Laura Tuckerman, Miss Margar-
eta Wright, Miss Anna Parkhurst, Miss
Elise Alexander, Miss Jean Hay, Miss
Rahel Davies, Miss Marine Jardine,
Miss Betty Thorpe, Miss Helen Gary,
Miss Katharine Phillips, Miss Elsie
Ekengren, Baroness AStrid Ungern-
Sternberg. Senorita Lucia Tessada Guz-
man and Mrs. Mcclure Kelley, sister of
the honor guests.
Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Ashburn
Compliment Miss Wren.
Miss Mary Martha Wren will be the
guest in whose honor Mai Gen. and
Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn will entertain
at buffet supper Saturday evening,
December 81, following her debut tea,
which her parents, Col. and Mrs Clarke
G. Wren, will give at the Mayhower
Hotel.
Miss Ann Virginia Ashburn, debut
tante daughter of Col. and Mrs. Percy
M. Ashburn, will be the guest In whose
honor her uncle and aunt, Mai. Gen.
and Mrs. Thomas @. Ashburn. will give
bunet supper Monday evening, De-
cember 80.
The dowager, Mrs. Vanderbilt of New
York. will give her first large entertain
ment of many years when on the night
OF December 23 she will entertain at
dinner for Miss Cornelia Szechenyi and
Miss Alice Szechenyi. daughters Of the
Minister Of Hungary and Countess
SZenchenyi, In her new home at East
Slxty-seventh street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fitzhush Talman will
entertain at q tea this afternoon from
to Z o'clock to present their daughter,
MISS Marjorie Talman. to society. AS
SlSt1ng Mrs. Talman will be Mrs. AL
fred j. johnson. Mrs. Charles Pittman,
Sonora de Mello. Miss Anne Squire,
Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh and Mrs. Benja-
min Long Edes. grandmother of the
debutante. With the bud will be Miss
Long Edes, Miss Catherine Goodwin,
Miss Janet Ball, Miss Priscilla Totten,
Miss ElIa nolouau EYY1ptar NNiev -,
Will wear q cream taffeta gown and
carry rosebuds, and her mother will be
IN fowered chiffon frock.
Debutante to Have Guest
on Day Of Her Debut.
Miss Catherine Knox Berry, whose
mother, Mrs. Georgia Knox Berry, issued
invitations last week for her coming
out ball at the Mayflower, Friday
December 27 will have as her guest for
the holidays, Miss Mary Blackman
Bass, daughter Of Gen. and Mrs. Frank
Bass, of Nashville, Tenn, who will ar
rive the day of Miss Berry'S debut. She
will assist at the ball.
Miss Berry and Miss Bass made their
debut together in Nashville at the
Bellemeade Country Club Cotillon,
october "a. Miss Bass Is q Strikingly
beautiful girl and will remain here for
several weeks.
Miss Eleanor Morgan Grain, debutante
daughter of Mrs. Robert Grain, will be
the honor guest at a dinner given by
Mrs Charles Worthington. December IL,
at the Chevy Chase Club. Another
dinner will be given for her December
30, by DR.. and Mrs. Louis Greene, at
their home on Connecticut avenue. Mr..
and Mrs. Charles A. Douglas will enter
tain at a dinner dance December %,
at the Chevy Chase Club, in honor Of
, Miss Grain.
DR.. Hugh H. Young and his daugh-
! ter, Miss Helen H. Young, viii give
q dinner dance in Miss Grains honor
Decembers13. Later the guests viii at