Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-10
Capital Debutante
List for 1880 Season
Due for Rare Honors
Group of Buds Includes Rep
resentatives of Prominent
Society Circles, Including
Diplomatic and Executive.

Not in several years has Washington
society boasted so many really impor-
tant debutantes as in the coming sea-
son and there is nothing monoto-
nous about the list, every branch of
society being represented from the
Executive family, Senate and House.
diplomatic corps and where not. Some
of the buds have made Midsummer
debuts in other places and several are
scheduled for early Autumn parties
before they return to- the Capital.
However. no other city in the country
affords such a wonderful field for COM
ing-out parties as is presented in
Washington, and as usual the larger
hotels are chosen for the fields Of
vantage.
The Assistant Secretary OF the Navy
and Mrs. Ernest Lee Jahncke have
selected Tuesday, November Is, to pre-
sent their daughter Miss Adele Town
send Jahncke, to society in Washing
ton, when a large tea dance will be
given In the grand ball room and
Chinese room of the Mayflower for
their many friends and their daughters
friends. Miss Jahncke graduated from
school in New Orleans in June and is
passing the Summer with her younger
sister, Miss Cora Jahncke, at Rock
Jahncke will entertain at luncheon
November IL at the Mayflower for her
daughter and the other debutantes of
the season. Later in the season Com
modore and Mrs. Jahncke will present
their daughter to society in their
Southern home in New Orleans.
Another large debutante party to be
given early in the season at the May
flower will be that of Miss Helen Lee
Eames Dougherty, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. l.. Dougherty of New York,
who will entertain in her honor at q
ball the evening of November 30. Many
out-of-town friends of Miss Dougherty
will come to the Capital for the event.
Miss Dougherty returned recently to
this country from Europe, where she
has been studying.
Col. and Mrs. r. c. Musser will en-
terrain at a dinner dance for their
daughter, Miss Margene K. Musser,
November IS. in the Chinese room of
the Mayhower, when she will make her
official bow to society in the Capital.
Immediately following Miss Musser' S
dinner dance that evening Miss Eliza
beth Edison, granddaughter Of Mr.. John
Joy Edison, will be presented at ball
to be given in the grand ball room
of the hotel. Miss Edison, who gradu-
ated in June from the Drew School on
the Hudson, is with her mother Mrs
Elizabeth Edison, for the Summer in
Atlantic City.
Miss Betty Richards, daughter of DR..
and Mrs Ralph Richards, who is also
among the seasons debutanteS, will give
a luncheon October at the Mayf1ower
for the other young girls who are COM
ing out this season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Dodge of
New York and Colorado Springs will
present their daughter at a ball to be
given November % in the grand ball
room and Chinese room of the May
flower. Miss Dodge spent last Winter
in Washington with her parents and
is now at their Summer home in Colo
RADIO.
Included among the debutantes who
will be presented in December at the
Mayfower are Miss Katrina McCor-
mick, daughter of Mrs. j. Medill Nc
Cormick, who will entertain at a ball
in her honor on the 9th of the month;
Miss Jean Wingfield, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Wingfield of San
Francisco and Reno, New, who have
selected December 81 for a large ball;
the Baroness Korff, who will entertain
|" for her daughter, Miss Barbara Korff,
December % in the Chinese room of the
hotel, and Mr.. and Mrs. George H. CAL
vert, jr., will present their daugh-
tiers, Miss Eleanor Calvert and Miss
Margaret P. Calvert, on Christmas day.
Other early Autumn functions to be
given at the Mayf1ower for the debu-
tantes include luncheon TO be given
October 81 by DR.. and Mrs. William c.
Gwynn for their daughter. Miss Louise
Harrison Gwynn, who will make her
formal debut at a tea dance to be given
later at the hotel. Miss Gwynn. a grad
uate from Holton Arms School, has just
returned home from Atlantic City and
is leaving the middle of the month for
Bar Harbor to be the guest of Miss
Louise Brooks, granddaughter of Mrs.
E. I. Stotesbury. Earlier in the Sum-