Evening star., 1946-09-29
Merry Whul
Is Promised
DebutQntes
Dates Chosen
For Holiday
Festivities
By Margaref Hart Candy
Society Editor.

VIC nhooe-Ictcu ucUuldllc Ol CIl6
1867 season is the big question. To
be sure there will be no dull moments
FOR the towns younger set. Dates
nave been selected for formal COM
Ing-out parties and friends of the
young ladies who will curtsey to So
ciety this winter are planning other
festivities In their honor. And just
how so many parties can be crowd
ed into the holiday season Is an
other large-sized questions.
Washington's bouquet of debu-
tantes now numbers 14-al attrac-
tive and popular. AS time slips by
more will be added to
the list and just how to prevent
two debuts from taking place on the
same day is no small question.
Miss Mira p. Noyes, daughter Of
Mrs. Laurence H. Green, whose de-
but was Cancelled owing to the death
of her grandfather. Mr.. Theodore
w. Noyes, is to take part in the
debutante whirl this winter. She Is
a student at Wells College and will
be coming home the last week end
in October. She will be here only
a few days then, but upon her re-
turn for Christmas she will stay
longer. December 18 has been
chosen for a dance at. the Sulgrave
Club given by Mr.. and Mrs. Green.
December 81 is the date for the
debut tea of Miss Sophie Finken-
staedt, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward r. Finkenstaedt. The party
will be given at the Sulgrave Club.
SOPHIE had an interesting time this
summer-spent the greater part OF
It In Mexico, where she lived with a
Mexican family. She is now study
ing at Briarcliff Junior College.
To Bow at Tea Dance
Miss Anne Rogers Devereux is to
have two holidays from her studies
at Newton College. She will be home
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. JOS
eph S. Devereux, for Thanksgiving
and again for Christmas. On De-
cember rs her parents will present
her to their friends at tea dance
at the Chevy Chase Club. Miss
Devereux is a graduate of Sacred
Heart Academy and. following IN
the footsteps of other debutantes in
her family, she will be presented at
the first German of the Bachel-
ors' Cotillion.
Coming home from Smith College
for Christmas will be lovely Miss
Patricia Southgate, daughter of Mrs.
Richard Southgate and the late Mr..
Southgate. She will make her for
NAL bow at the 1925 F Street Club
ut a dinner dance given by her
mother.
The widely feted debutante, Miss
Helen II. Bowdoin-she made her
debut at a lavish party at Newport
last month and earlier on Long
Island-will be in the debutante
Christmas whirl. Her mother is Mrs.
Edward II. Foley. jr., wife of the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
and there are now tentative plans
for a New Year eve party for her.
Mr.. and Mrs. Foley are back from
Newport, where they occupied the
De Rham villa on Red Gross avenue.
An attractive newcomer in WASH
ington will make her bow in the
spring, although she will take part
in the debutante activities during
the winter season. She is Miss Pa
tricia Appel, now at Bryn Mawr
after being graduated from Madeira
School. Her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Monte Appel, brought their family
to Washington over year ago from
st. Paul and they have purchased
q house on Foxhall road. Patricia
mas younger sister, Jacqueline, who
is now at Madeira with plans for
a Washington debut a few years
hence
Foreign Debntantes
There will be at least two daugh-
tiers of diplomats enjoying the merry
whirl Pretty Nora Martins, daugh-
ter of the dean of the diplomatic
corps, the Brazilian Ambassador
and Senhora de Martins, is going
to have very gay time, and slated
among the parties for her will be
dance at the Embassy the evening
of December %. Nora was grad
uated in June from Madeira. She
shares her parents great popularity
in the Capital and there is no doubt
but that she will be one of the most
feted of the debutantes.
Another lovely is Tilda Kauff-
mann, daughter of the Danish Min
lister and Nine. de Kaufman. She
will be introduced to society by her
parents at a dance at the Legation.
Now student at Vassar, Tflda will
not be coming home until the
season.
The pretty blond-haired, blue
eyed daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Winslow B. Van Devanter, Miss
Ethel Earling Van Devanter. will
be one of the top buds of the sea-
son. She is going to come out at
tea dance given by her parents at
the Sulgrave Club. Miss Van Dew
anter is looking forward to her
debut. She adores parties. She
now is busy with her studies at
vassar College after a varied vaca-
tion. She went to Wisconsin with
ner parents to visit Mrs. Van Dev-
anter's aunt. Mrs. Frederick G.
Thwaits, and had a merry time
with many parties given for her.
But she found the island in the
Georgian Bay Of Canada, where the
family had cottage, bit quiet
after such gayety.
A double debut has been decided
upon by Miss Gale Miller, daughter
If Mr.. and Mrs. Neville Miller, and
Miss Sarah Murdock, whose parents
ire Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Murdock.
They will be presented by their re-
,pective parents at a tea dance
December 23 at the Chevy Chase
Club.
Miss Helen Chaplin will be intro
iuced by her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Selden Chaplin, at dance the
evening Of December 26 at the 1925
Street Club, and popular and
oyely Evelyn Maddox, is coming out
1t an evening dance at the Sulgrave
Club. She spent much of the sum-
mar urith bar poraptS ropt opd