Evening star., 1936-12-06
Tuckernnan
Reception
Last Nigh
Daughter Is Presented
to Society A m id
Charming Setting.

Tuxeden, the Edgemoor home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter r. Tucker
i man, their daughter, Miss Alice
Noel Tuckerman, was formally pre-
sented to society yesterday.
There were flowers everywhere in
Tuxeden. They we're banked against
the walls of the living room, where
the young debutante received with ker
mother, on the mantel and on the
tables and in the ball room, where
the young guests assisting at the tea
danced after the reception was over.
The living room where Miss Tucker
man received her guests was the same
room in Tuxeden in which her three
sisters-Miss Laura Tuckerman, Miss
Elsie Tuckerman, now Mrs. Benjamin
Bays, and Miss Ruth Tuckerman,
made their debuts in previous years.
Miss Tuckerman. in her pale blue
satin dress with its bouffant skirt and
small puff sleeves and slightly off the
shoulder effect, and with her arms
full of American Beauty roses, looked
as If she might have stepped from
the frame of an old daguerreotype.
Around her throat she wore a neck
lace with a pendant of pearls and dia-
monds set in gold which her mother
wore when, as Miss Edith Abercrombie-
Miller, she made her debut in Wash
ington. She also wore a topaz and
pearl pin set in gold to match the
necklace.
The debutante's mothers dress was
OF dubonnet red with a very long skirt
and insets Of lace and pearls in the
sleeves. and her corsage bouquet was
OF orchids.
During the afternoon and again in
the evening, groups Of young girls
in attractive costumes, debutantes OF
Washington and Of Baltimore and
Philadelphia. where Miss Tuckerman
frequently visits, assisted in entertain
ing the younger guests present at the
tea. In this group were Miss Carlile
Porter. Miss Anne Child, daughter OF
the late Richard Washburn Child
and Mrs. Edmund w. Pavenstedt;
Miss Ethel Worthington Miss Margot
Garrett, Miss Hebe Reynolds and Miss
Gloria Grosvenor. all of Washington;
and from Philadelphia there was Miss
Helen Cresson, debutante Of last
June; from Boston, Miss Tuckerman's
cousin. Miss Elizabeth Dick, and also
Miss Anne Jackson from Baltimore.
In this same group of young girls
who assisted Miss Tuckerman were
Miss Yolande de Mauduit, Miss Eleanor
Flood, Miss Miriam Scott, Miss Stellita
Stapleton and Miss Tuckerman's
cousin. Miss Emily Tuckerman, from
New York City and the Worn Rath
twins, Cecilia and Marie, from New
York City. Miss Caroline Cecil, one
OF the next years debutantes, was also
present and also helped with the en-
tertainment after the reception.
Among those who alternated at the
tea table during the afternoon were
Mrs. Clement Biddle, Mrs. George
Dallas Dixon, Mrs. Caleb Cresson and
Mrs. James Francis Sullivan, all of
Philadelphia. and Mrs Bruce Cotton
Mrs. James T. Dennis, Mrs. Josephine
Tunstall Smith and Mrs. George Hunt
ington williams of Baltimore. Mrs
Tuckerman also was assisted during
the afternoon by Nine. Prochnik. wife
of the Austrian Minister; Representa-
tive Edith Nourse Rogers, Nine. He'll
mann, Nine. de Mauduit, Mrs. Ralph
Close, Mrs. Mahlon Pitney, Mrs
Thomas Riggs, Mrs. Robert Hollister
Chapman, Mrs. George Pillsbury, Mrs
Mark L. Bristol Mrs. Gilbert Gros-
venor, Mrs Arthur Macarthur, Mrs.
Ralph jenkins, Mrs. Ralph Worthing-
ton Mrs George T. Becker. Mrs. James
Carroll Frazer. Miss Janet Fish, Miss
Mary Randolph and Mrs. David Porter.
After the reception Miss Tuckerman
entertained the young girls who as
sisted her during the afternoon at a
dinner party after which the guests
remained to dance in the ball room
at Tuxeden.
At second dinner party at Tuxeden
last night Mrs. Tuckerman had as her
guests the Austrian Minister and Nine.
Prochnik, the Hungarian Minister and
Nine. Pelenyi, the Canadian Minister
and the Hon. Lady Marler, DR.. Josef
Nemecek. Charge d'Affaires Of Czecho-
slovakia; the Minister of the Union Of
South Africa and Mrs. Close, Repre-
sentative Edith Nourse Rogers, Mr.
Robert Webster of the South African
Legation. Count and Countess de Cas-
tellane. Mrs. James Francis Sullivan,
Mrs. George Huntington Williams,
Mrs. Bruce Cotton, Miss Josephine
Tunstall Smith, Mrs. James T. Dennis.
Mrs. Clement Biddle, Mrs. Caleb
Cresson, Admiral and Mrs. Mark l..
Bristol, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Riggs,
Mr.. Laurence S. Butler, Mr.. Lynch
Luquer, Mr.. Walter Davidge. Mr.. Oscar
T. Crosby. Mr.. Kulokowski and Mr..