Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-28
Coming Out Party at Sulsrave Club
Brilliant Dance Last Nigbt /
Marks Marye Thomas Debut
By Betty Beale

| Woods, who made her debut last
June: striped taffeta was blond
Nancy Trowbridges selection, rose
MORE was Nancy Thomas and all
white was the gown worn by Mrs.
Samuel H. Kaufman III, who was
chatting with her husband and
brother-in-laW. MI. John H Kauff-
mann And still more Capital bellies
present were Miss Louise Hamilton
escorted by Mr.. Edgar Prochnik;
Miss Anne Muse Gillespie, Miss
Hildretk Dunn. Miss Mary Beal, Miss
Anne Bryan and Miss Sherry Parker,
who was in constant demand on the
dance floor.
Washington's 400" or reasonable
facsimile thereof, were present last
night, both f1guratively and literally
speaking. Actually it looked like
more than 400 as every room was
we'll occupied and by II o'clock there
was the usual congenial bottleneck
at the entrance to- the ballroom.
The young fry were seated around
in groups on the floor in the oval
room and in the card rooms, too. As
the evening progressed the debu-
tante of the evening took time out
for rest and was Immediately sur
rounded by Mr.. Adolphus Andrews.
Mr.. Holt Haywood and Mr.. Leslie
Douglas. Glimpsed in the stag line
long enough to select another part
ner were Mr.. Huntington Hartford.
Mr.. Homer Stillwell, Mr.. Robert
Waggaman. Mr.. Mannix Walker,
Mr.. Brooke Armatt, Mr. Sidney
Kent, Mr.. Joseph Addison, Mai
Clement Corger and Capt. Robert
P. Patterson, jr. And to mention
what a man was wearing for a
change, the latter'S decorations in
cluded the Distinguished Flying
Cross with Clusters and the Air
Medal with Clusters.
While on the subject of male APP
parel, Mr.. Frederick Finkenstaedt
sWore that he was wearing the first
opera hat of the postwar era and
that collapsing it so intrigued Nam
cy Mayo that she almost broke it.
These TWO were at the dinner given
by Mrs. George MeSta for Miss Betty
Tyson, whose fabulous debut party
at Newport last summer still is the
talk of the social world Mrs. Mesta
will entertain for Miss Tyson again
on New Year eve at the Sulgrave
Club. Mr.. and Mrs Neville Miller
were also dinner hosts before last
nights gay dance.
Chief among the dinners. of
course. was that given for Miss
Thomas by Mr.. and Mrs. George
Garrett in their lovely home on
Thlrticth street. The dinner was
for So, including Miss Thomas best
friends among the debutante and
post-debutante groups. Except for
1t. Mccullough Darlington, who is
in Calcutta with the AAF, this din
ner also marked a reunion for Mrs.
CARROTS family. Mr.. and Mrs.
Duncan Pitney were there and
talked about the trip they are max
ing today to Aiken to visit Duncans
mother, Mrs. Huston Rawls, for the
New Year holiday.
Mrs. Mccullough Darlington and
Mr.. Harry Darlington III were also
among those present The latter is
fresh out of the Navy after "a
months service He joined the Navy
six years ago and went to the South
Pole with Admiral Byrd and lived in
the frozen wastes of the Antarctic
for two years.
Making a special trip from New
York for this brilliant debut were
Miss Ethel Jones. Miss Betty Nc
Cullouch and Miss Anne Regain,
three Of Marye's best friends who
went to Miss Hewitt's School in New
York with her. From Philadelphia
came Miss Phyllis Walsh and her
and also from Gotham came
Mr.. Francis Curtis, all friends of
Mrs. Thomas. The towns favorite
orchestra kept this dance going at
full speed until the very small hours
of this morning