The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-06-14
If du Pont- Roosevelt Nuptial Festivities
 Go Awry, Mrs. MacMullan Will Be Blamed
LaMdS Young
 MOdernS' BehaUiOr At Social EUentS

the Bellevue -Stratford in a sumptu- ous suite. From this suite, Mrs. Mac Mullan directs her varied activities She herself Supervises every party and even if she has as many as three parties in one evening, she goes to all three them for a time, leaving a few of her secretaries at each one.
 "The people for whom I plan parties give them not to make a display or a show, as some peo- pie may imagine" she says but in order to give their daughters dignified introduction to the. world or to gilve their children a wed- ding in good taste. Surely they are entitled to that"
 Mrs. MacMullan " got the job" of the du Pont- Roosevelt wedding logically enough, for she arrang- ed Ethel du Fonts parties in her debutante year. She is now arrang- ing the debutante party for Aimee du Pont, EthePs younger sister; will take place next fall. And it was Mrs. MacMullan who arranged the famous Widener Ball for Joan Pea body at the evue-Stratford here last winter.
 "I don't know what made every one so curious about that Widener ball." Mrs. MacMullan went on. T myself had two other balls just as large the same week as the Widen CT Ball and neither of them got any publicity at all. I guess 1t was just one of those unpredictable things.
 T do have most of the debutantes in Wilmington and Philadelphia and the suburbs of Philadelphia. l arrange teas, dinner dances, balls and dances. Yacht entertainment is informal and is almost always ar- ranged by the people themselves. I merely give suggestions for clothes but I don't do anything much about them; I'm not interested in planning clothes and I find that the mothers and daughters usually know what they want to wear.
 What I do arrange is the cater ing, the decorating, the parking of cars, the entertainment, the seating of the dinners. It's important to know how to seat people because if you place a girl who is interested only in horses next to boy who cares nothing at all about them, they won't have good time.
 Roosevelt Wedding
 Only Average in Cost
 "As to financing party, the usual procedure is that the hostess tells me approximately what she can spend and then I tell her what she can get for 1t. Sometimes, of course, the figures have to be revised. get a great deal of satisfaction from doing lot for a hostess who can spend comparatively little. often work on 8 budget system, working out exactly what it's possible to get within limited sum. My mothers won't throw their money away and like to see that they get as much as possible.
 "Of course the kind of entertain ment varies with the price. When a hostess wants a floor show, that up. The du Pont- Roosevelt WCOOnl6 10 1lOt 0V eSkA OANoSoAAAAAo in the matter of costs. It is the same in cost as a dozen others am for this month. It will
 be simple ceremony; the young people are both very sweet and that is all I can say about that. Yes, the invitations went out two weeks ago and they did contain 8 way showing people how to get to the du Pont home"
 Mrs. MacMullan does not consider her work related to that of experts in etiquette, but she does say that she often has to tell people the fine points, like how to walk in a we'd ding procession, which side the bride walks on, and other related small, though important, items. She never gets tired of planning parties. or even of going to them, and she would find it almost impossible to ascertain how many parties she has gone to in fourteen years.