The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-10
DebutanteS
Coming Out
at Newport
Whirl of Festivities
Will Mark Next
Few Weeks.
BY HELEN WORDEN
Times Special Writer

blood is bringing new life into the
nations social capital. This gilt
tering resort, hampered for years
by the pompous ghosts of the Mrs.
Stuyesant Fish royal dynasty, is
throwing off the "mind-your-pS-
and qS" letters of the past.
This week Newport enters into a
whirl of debutante festivities. Din
ners, suppers, dances and beach par
ties center around the six pretty
debutantes who are making their
bow to society in a summer colony
heretofore interested only in dow
ager-minded functions.
Phyllis Gillespie, beautiful young
sister of the Eileen Gillespie who
didn't marry John Jacob Astor, is to
be presented informally Wednesday
night at a dinner given in the
Beuevue-av mansion of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Gillespie.
Between IS and 100 young people
have been invited to the party.
Dinner Dance Debut
The GillespieS' Newport resi-
dence is a simple, gray frame house,
with gabled roof, wide porches and
the look of a prosperous Main-st
bankers home to its early twen-
tieth century pattern.
Friday night, Lucy Saunders
slim, curly-haired daughter of DR..
and Mrs. Truman Laurance Saun-
ders-will make her bow to the So
cial world at a dinner dance in the
summer home of her parents on
Ledge-rd.
Saturday night, Mr.. and Mrs
John Russell Pope are giving a ball
for their daughter, Jane, at the
Waves, the Pope estate.
The house, a splendid example of
English country architecture, stands
on the site of the old Lippitt Castle.
Mr.. Pope, a famous architect in his
own right, is designing a specially
constructed pavilion for the party. 1t
is being built on the terrace. Judg-
ing from rumors, the pavilion is to
outshine Marie Antoinette's YER
sailles settings in magnificence.
Marble Palace Cottage"
Jane Pope's grandmother, Mrs.
Henry Walters, remembered the
glory that was Newport. AS Mrs.
Pembroke Jones she contributed to
the elaborate social life of the Fish
era.
Dignified Mrs. Walters lives in a
white marble palace on Bellevue-av,
not far from the Jack Aston resi-
dence. Both these mansions were
built in the days when American
society had an eye on royal purple.
The MeSdameS Fishes, GoeletS, As
tors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts we're
patterning their lives after the kings
and queens of Europe.
A cottage in quaint Newport
meant marble palace filled with
rare works of art, priceless tapes
tries, massive gold furniture and
liveried servants.
Fifty thousand dollars on a sin
gle party was q mere flash in the
pan. The jewels, the gowns and
the food and drinks represented
millions in cold cash.
From Cheese to Chalk"
Have times changed?" I asked
Herbert Coles, the caterer, yesterday.
Mr.. Coles has been in business Sc
years. He's had the major share OF
the resorts big parties.
Miss Worden, Viewpoints gone
from terrapin to a ham sandwich"
he said. From cheese to chalk, if
you know what 1 meant"
But I don't believe the refresh
ments have changed SO much" Mrs.
LIE Brun Rhinelander said yesterday
morning 1--WE still have about the
same things to eat-perhapS not so
deliberately served"
Mrs. RhinelandeT's daughter, LIE
Brun, who is 70 be introduced to
society next Wednesday at dinner
which her mother will give III the
Muenchinger-King returned last
week from California.
She is a pretty girl, with red
brown hair, slanting eyes and oval
face. Many people think her a dead
ringer for Merle Oberon.
Flies to Coast
LIE Brun flew out and back to the
Pacific Coast. She visited Mrs.
Robert Livingston Beeckman at
Santa Barbara. And was crazy
about it," her mother said. "She
liked the flying and she adored
California"
A terrific thunderstorm came up
just as Miss Rhinelander's plane left
Newark airport. 81 was frantic"
Mrs. Rhinelander said. But it
didn't phase lie Brun. She wired me
from Pittsburgh that she enjoyed
the storm"
Mrs. Rhinelander and her two
children, LIE Brun and Philip, and
her mother, Mrs. w. Eugene Par
sons, are stopping at the Viking.
Virginia French, Aerille Frazer,
Elena Villa and Margaret BENNETT
Clinton are among the other debs
who keep the social top spinning
in Newport.
Like Kentucky Feud
Miss French's stepfather and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. James Lenox
Banks, arrived at the Muenchinger-
King last week from New York to