Evening star., 1936-11-01
"Tacky Ball.
Last Night
Resourceful
Spirit of Halloween
Prevails at Dance
for Debutantes.

THE spirit of Halloween and that
of the gay nineties period pre-
vailed last evening at the dance
Il given at the Mayf1ower Hotel
for the debutantes Of the season. Mrs.
William Laird Dunlop sponsored the
party, which is given annually under
the name of the "Tacky Ball" by the
self-styled girls on the shelf"
One might easily have thought he
had stepped into a gay nineties party
with all the costumes Of that period
and even those of an earlier period,
going back into the Civil War and
reconstruction period, with the i'm
personation of many of Margaret
Mitchelrs characters from Gone
With the Wind" The ryhthm of the
colored orchestra playing old songs
of the Civil War and gay nineties
soon instilled feeling Of the olden
days.
The typical election ballot boxes
into which the votes were cast for the
most authentic and most amusing
costumes were presided over by
President Roosevelt, impersonated by
Mr.. Clarence Dodge, jr., and by Lam
don. impersonated by Mr.. Smith
Blair, jr. At midnight the guests were
asked to remove their masks and make
known their identities.
A gay nineties drop was used as q
background Of the stage and the en-
tire italian garden was appropriately
decorated as q setting for the barbe-
cue supper, carried out in similar
fashion to ones served at the Wilkes
estate, around which Margaret Mitch
ellis story Is woven.
Mrs. Dunlop received the guests,
with a group Of the post-debutantes
assisting. Miss Margaret McMullen,
chairman of the Hostess Committee,
impersonated Ellen O'Hara, mother
of Scarlet, the main character in the
book.
Miss Mary Senate Howes, the "cabi-
net" bud of the season. was chairman
of the debutantes. appearing as Bea-
trice Talterton, and Miss Ruth Dove,
also of the debutante group, was
among several Scarletts.
Miss Henrietta Talbot came as
Cathleen Calvert and Miss Margaret
Sampson as Mrs. Sally Fontaine.
Suellen O'Hara, portrayed by Miss
Mary Agnes Young, and Miss Carrie
Roper Fulton came as Melanie and
Mr.. Charles Thomas Clagett as Rhett
Butler.
There were Roosevelts and Landons
and motion-picture characters.
Among others attending the ball
were Capt. James White, U. S. A.;
Lieut.. Sidney Wooten. U. s. A.: Mr..
Robert F. Kelly, Mr.. Bruce Aitchison,
Mr.. Otis Wingo, Miss Gloria Gros-
venor. Miss Bette Hartz, Miss Suzanne
Happier, Miss Virginia Randolph,
Miss Hebe Reynolds, Miss Gertrude
Pearson, Miss Henrietta Talbot, Miss
Mary Agnes Young, Miss Martha Tai
ley, Miss Sally Mitchell LIE Fevre,
Miss Patricia Ridsdale, Miss Silvine
Clagett, Miss Catherine McKane, Miss
Florence Coffin, Miss Evelyn Elizabeth
Radeker, Miss Vallette Sullivan, Miss
Margaret McNeal, Miss Polly Wirg-
man, Miss Jean Gilbert, Miss Eliza
g beth c. Barnard, Miss Randolph
Richardson, Miss Betty Marsh, Miss
Mary Morris Wright, Miss Katherine
Friant, Miss Laura johnson, Miss
Eula Council, Miss Helen Potts, Miss
Margaret Walsh, Miss Lilly Fleming
Of Chicago, Miss Marjorie Kyle, Miss
Alice Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Merton
English and Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
West.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abbott Maginnis:
guests included the Minister of the
Dominican Republic and Sonora de
Pastoriza, the Charge d'Affaires of
Nicaragua and Sonora de De Bayle,
DR.. and Mrs. j. G. Lewis, DR.. and
Mrs William O'Donnell, Miss Battle
of New York and Mr.. Paulo G. Hass-
locher.
Mrs. Neitah King entertained q
party Of 40 preceding the ball.