Evening star., 1953-12-22
Society News:
Society News:
Metro oPo|iton Club
Setting for Debuts
Eighteen Young Ladies Presented
At Third Annual Debutonte Ball
By Kothorine M. Brooks

Eighteen pretty and happy
young ladies made their formal
debuts last evening in the stately
Metropolitan Club. Such frivol-
ity and gayety is somewhat new
for the staid and dignified Met
ropolitan Club, which for gen.
erations was kept strictly for
the men.
The debutanteS were enter
tanned at dinner before the ball
and were seated at a horseshoe
shaped table in the dining room
of the club. Seated with them
were guests from out of town,
debutantes of other cities. Their
elders were seated at another
table.
Seasonal Decorations
The club was in holiday dress.
too. At the head of the hand
some, wide, stairway. were two
huge, green Christmas trees, dec
Grated with gay lights. The din
ing room decor featured large
hoops of white carnations with
an occasional sprig of holly.
All 18 of the debutantes. wear
ing white bouffant frocks and
carrying identical nosegays of
pink carnations, received the
guests. Two of the mothers stood
in the line at a time, and at the
proper moment the fathers, or
senior escorts, came forward to
escort the debutantes to the ball.
room.
There was a grand march
around the room, after which
Mr.. Meyer Davis and his orches-
ira started an enticing waltz. The
young men at the party cut in
on their elders and then the
general dancing began.
The party was excellently ar
ranged, and the Washington
Debutante Ball will give the Cap
ital something akin to the old
Bachelors Cotillion in Balti-
more, the Philadelphia Assembly
and the st. Cecelia's Ball IN
Charleston, s. c.
Diplomats Daughters
The Misses Cynthia and Molly
Makins were presented by their
parents, British Ambassador and
Lady MakinS. Both girls al
ready have been presented at
the Court of st. James, which
Is the debut for an English girl.
United States Ambassador to
Cuba and Mrs. Arthur Gardner,
who came home for Christmas,
presented their daughter, Miss
Suzanne Gardner, and Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Richard B.
Wigglesworth presented their
daughter. Miss Mary Wiggles-
worth.
Miss Ann English also made
her bow last evening. She is the
daughter of Mrs. Grew English
and a granddaughter of former
United States Ambassador and
Mrs. Joseph C. Grew. Miss Sa-
rita Southgate, daughter of Mrs.
Richard Southgate and the late
Mr.. Southgate. who was chief Of
protocol for some time, was in
the line last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander B.
Hagner presented the latter's
daughter, Miss Nancy Salmon;
and Miss Harriet Boyd Hawes
was presented by her parents,
MIR. and Mrs Alexander Boyd
HaWeS.
Others presented were Miss
Nancy Fuller Heron, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John William
Heron; Miss Mary Truxton Hill,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam G.. Hill; Miss Jenifer Lee,
daughter of Brig. Gen. and Mrs.
Raymond Eliot Lee, and Miss
Susan Blodgett Lowe, daughter
of Mrs. Ives Lowe.
DR.. and Mrs. John Minor pre-
sented the latter's daughter,
Miss Elizabeth Lewis Sheerin,
and others in the line were Miss
Mercer Brockenbrough Preston,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as Lewis Preston; Miss Emily
Dunlop Stenhouse, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Stenhouse;
Miss Alexandria Taylor, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. James Spear
Taylor; Miss Anne Day VAN