Evening star., 1938-12-28

The debutante, who has much the
same charm and manner of her
aunt, has said on several occasions
that Washington is her favorite
American city, and there was little
doubt last night but that she was
having a wonderful time at her own
party. She had expected to wear a
dress that is being sent to her by
the King of Greece, but unfortu-
nately it did not arrive in time for
the party and so she chose dress of
white organdie flecked with white
embroidered dots. The bodice was
quite simply cut with the decollete
showing bands of embroidery and
the billowy skirt was formed of two
deep rufIles with insertions of the
embroidery. She wore tiny wreath
Of forget-me-notS and carried an
old fashioned bouquet of roses and
daisies sent to her by her mother
from Boston.
Mrs. Roosevelt wore an unusually
becoming dress of bright red chiffon
with gold accessories.
Spends Morning Sightseeing,
Accompanied by Miss Grant.
Miss Roosevelt arrived at the
mansion early yesterday morning
accompanied by Miss Anne Grant,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Gait
Grant of Dedham, Mass, and
granddaughter of Mr.. Frederic A.
Delano, uncle of the President, and
the young women spent their morn
ing sightseeing. Today they will
attend several debutante festivities,
and expect to remain at the man
sion for several days. Others from
away who are guests at the White
House are Mr.. and Mrs. w. Forbes
Morgan, tr., of New York, cousins
Of the Presidents wife, and Mr..
Henry Parrish Roosevelt and Mr..
Daniel s. Roosevelt, brothers of the
debutante.
Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of
the President, and his sister-in- law,
MRS. James Roosevelt, are at the
mansion and were at the debut as
well as the small dinner party given
for Miss Roosevelt beforehand. Mrs.
Roosevelt, ST., attended Mrs. Roose-
velts press conference early in the
day, and when asked if she would
attend the debut, replied that she
would be there "in corner looking
on She was there and even if
she did sit on the sidelines she was
constantly surrounded by young
people, many of whom she has
Known since their infancy. She
wore handsome black satin dress
which she described to the women
reporters as long tail black satin
dress" She said her toilette did
not vary much except that some
times the trains of her black dress
were longer.
Guests at Party
Mostly From Away.
There were close to 400 guests at
the party last night and these for
the most were representative of the
younger set of Boston and New York.
There were, however, a goodly num-
ber from the Washington debutante
group and the college set home for
the holidays. While it was an
nounced some time ago that only
the Capital debutantes with some
oficial connections would be in
cluded on the list, there were a few
from the old residential circles in
the Capital at the party. Many
guests from Boston and New York
arrived early in the day by special
train and while quite a few are
staying at hotels, for the most they
are visiting friends in the Capital.
Small dinner parties dotted the
calendar before the dance, with out
of-town debutantes and their escorts
meeting a number of the Capitals
buds at these little preludes to the
brilliant coming-out party.
The Commissioner of immigration