Evening star., 1938-10-30
Debutante.
List Still
Growing
Cotter Sisters
The Latest
Additions.
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the younger social set here and from
other cities is on the list.
Sweetbriar College, as perhaps
you've heard. is very unrelenting about
such frivolities as giving Thanksgiving
holidays, but the Washington debs
have plan all figured out for getting
here that week end. There are four
of them at the college, believe, and
their mothers are going to drive to
the school, pick up their daughters
from their Saturday classes and get
them home in time to be all prettied
up with the requested up-and-silvered
coiffure for the ball
Miss Sylvia Alexander, the popular
debutante daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Edward r. Alexander is in Philadel-
phia this week end as the guest OF
her brother-in-l and sister, MI and
Mrs. John M. Carter. Last evening
she went to a dinner which Mr. and
Mrs. Morris Clothier gave in honor
Of Miss Jane Bodine. debutante daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. William Bodine.
Miss Bodine will come to Washington
for the tea Miss Alexander's parents
give November II for their daughter
at their home on New Hampshire
avenue.
Miss Gudger to Be Honored
During Thanksgiving Holidays.
Miss Elinor Gudger will return to
the city Wednesday before Thanks
giving and her mother. Mrs. Emmet
c. Gudger, will send out invitations
this week for q debutante luncheon
she will give for her daughter the day
after Thanksgiving.
In the meantime Mrs. Gudger is
going to New York November 10 to
meet Elinor for long week end from
Mount Holyoke. when friends there
will give several parties for the debu-
tante.
Miss Mary Dora Thompson's aunt,
Miss Daisy Prentice, will give lunch
con Monday, November 7, at the
Chevy Chase Club for Mary Dora's
friends and the debutante's mother,
Mrs. Smith Hempstone, is also plan
ming luncheon for her, at which the
seasons debs will be honored, but
the date for this affair has not been
set.
Miss Jacqueline Meredith, the very
charming daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Payne Meredith, is having a
gay season, though no date for a
coming-out party here has been set.
Some time during the Christmas hol-
days her parents will give a party
here for her and she will be presented
in Richmond November 25 at the
Commonwealth Club ball, and in
Baltimore on December at the
Bachelors Cotillion or, if you prefer,
at the First Monday German. This
week end she is in Charlottesville.
where she attended the opening dance
at the University of Virginia Friday
evening.
Several Parties Planned
For Miss Wrightson.
Miss Aileen Gorgas Wrightson,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Dougherty Wrightson, is having sew
eral parties planned for her. one Of
which is luncheon that Mrs. Pierre
IdludTQ Will give.
Col and Mrs. Walter w. Kings
debutante daughter Joan attended the
hop at Annapolis last evening and will
return to Sweetbriar today. Joan will
not take part in Washington social
activities until the Christmas holidays.
when Col. and Mrs. King will give a
tea dance at the 1925 F Street Club.
The time Of debutante festivities is
no longer drawing near, it is already
upon us, with various small parties
for the debutantes appearing almost
daily and with many large and formal
parties coming within few weeks.
The debutante list is now we'll into
the middle Of the forties in number of
names, and, with very few exceptions,
definite dates have been set for the
debuts Of the young ladies named.
SO Washington society can expect
many a crowded day for the rest of
the season.
AS for the debs, bless 'em, If thew
attend half OF the parties planned for
them and their friends, they will be
nothing but shadows by the close of
the season. But they love it, so any
sympathy we might give them would
be wasted After all, you're a deb only
once.