Evening star., 1950-12-27
Society News
Young Set Keeps Holiday Glitter Going
With Lively Parties and Lovely Dress

o0AAe, nAoo dt1Ily MdCSuUplIl.
She wore a creamy white tulle
strapless dress sparkling with
rhinestones and pearls and car
ried an old-fashioned bouquet of
pale yellow roses. Mrs. MacCub-
bin was gowned in toast crepe
with a\corsage of talisman roses
fastened at the shoulder.
Assisting the hostess at the tea
tables were Mrs. William Gou-
verneur Barnewall, Mrs. Raymond
Stanton Patton. Mrs. Leighton H.
PEBBLES, Mrs. George A. Newgar-
den, Mrs. Austin A. La Mar, Mrs.
James Nolan, Mrs. Ralph H. Hal
lett and Mrs. w. S. Watson.
Wrist corsages of sweetheart
roses distinguished the debu-
tantes assisting Miss MacCubbin.
Glimpsed wearing such presents
from the deb were the Misses Caro-
Butler. Mary Ann Robb, Louise
Sullivan. Catherine Sullivan, Con-
stance Cathcart, Judith Loucheim
and Sybil Devereux.
A large, brightly lit Christmas
tree dominated the main room at
the club and wreaths, holly and
mistletoe were placed about the
other rooms. Jack Morton's Or
cheStra played for the dancing
and early in the evening enticed
the slim brunette debutante to the
dance floor.
Miss MacCubbin is a graduate
of Mount Vernon Seminary and
will attend George Washington
University.
Dinner and Dance for Bud
About 400 young people fiocked
to the Sulgrave Club last night for
the presentation ball of Miss vir-
ginia Wetherill given by her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Price
Wetherill III. Miss Wetherill was
guest of honor at a dinner before
her dance given by Mr.. and Mrs.
William Bradley Willard at the
Metropolitan Club. The dinner
guests Included 40 young people
and their beaux-all
of whom arrived promptly at
1890 o'clock for the dance.
Another dinner before the dance
was the one given by Col. and
Mrs. David Barry for Miss Eleanor
Tydings whose own debut dance
takes place tonight at the Chevy
Chase Club. Co-hostess with her
parents was Miss Barbara Barry,
a debutante Of three seasons ago.
The party, however, was limited
entierly to debutantes of this sea-
son and their escorts. The set
ting was the Barrys' Kalorama
Circle home which was gay with
Christmas decorations and Erwin
Devron'S music. The IS young
guests were seated at small tables
for five each.
At her dance Miss Wetherill wore
a Nanty dress OF white net pleated
in an oblique line from the top
of its strapless bodice to the knees
where it dared into a 40-yard
wide skirt. A pink satin sash and
an old-fashioned bouquet of pink
and white carnations were the
only color in the costume. She re-
ceived with her mother who wore
4 striking deep violet satin dress
made on princess lines and white
,rchid corSage.
'Fhe debutante. who attends
darcum Junior College at Bryn
Mawr, Pa. will be guest of honor
1T a number of parties this week
including a dinner at the Sui
grave Club tonight to be given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren L. Stephen
son. Tomorrow she will share
nonors with Miss Sally Zantzinger
at dinner to be given by Mr.. and
Mrs. William Foster Burdick and
Friday Mr.. and Mrs. Albert w. |
Walker will host a dinner at the
Club in her honor.
Last night. despite her taxing
schedule of parties, the debutante
was fresh and radiant as she
passed rapidly from partner to
partner while Sidney and the
band played on.