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48 WINNETKA TALK December 8, 1928 Plans for Young Folk Hold Sway Along North Shore Society's Interest Turns to Affairs for Younger Set BY EVELYN DUNCAN With Thanksgiving and the football season 'over, all social interest is now centered in the Christmas holidays with the return of debutantes, sub debs and their brothers from school, and the many teas, luncheons, dinners and in- numerable dances and balls which will more than fill their calendar. Four Winnetka girls will make their debuts during the holiday season, and others who have already come out will give balls and dinners. Miss Louise Lackner, daughter of the Francis I. Lackners, will be presented at a large luncheon to be given by her mother at Indian Hill club on December 23. Her list of assistants is not quite com- plete. She and her sister, Antoinette, will return from Vassar on Decem- ber 22. Miss Louise Fentress' debut is to take place Christmas day at a tea at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Fentress. December 27 is marked by two affairs, one given by Miss Charlotte Picher and Miss Elizabeth Knode, a dinner dance, at the Black- Col stone, and later that evening Mr. and Mrs. Bruce MacLeish will give a ball for their daughter, Jean, in the Red Lacquer room of the Palmer House. New Year's day Miss Harriet Leonard and Miss Louise Badgerow are to have their respective debut parties. Miss Badgerow is to be pre- sented to society at a tea dance to be given by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harve Badgerow of 576 Arbor Vitae road, on New Year's day at the Indian Hill club. She has chosen the following debutantes to assist her at the affair, Miss Jean MacLeish, Miss Charlotte Picher, Miss Elizabeth Knode, Miss Elizabeth Warren, Miss Barbara King, Miss Dorothy Ranney, Miss Betty Borden, Miss Mary Elizabeth Johnson, Miss Jean Purcell, Miss Kathleen Whitcomb, Miss Jean Stevens and Miss Letitia Channon. Miss Leonard will be presented by her father, John R. Leonard, at his annual New Year's reception to be held at their home, Wildacre. Miss Leonard was graduated from Radcliffe college last June and one of her classmates from Boston, Miss Claribel Smith, is coming directly after Christmas to as- sist at Miss Leonard's tea. She will spend several months here as Miss Leonard's houseguest. A partial list of the other debutantes who will serve with her on New Year's day includes Miss Letitia Channon, Miss Laura Jacoby, Miss Eleanor McEwen, Miss Jean MacLeish, Miss Charlotte Picher, Miss Theresa Rew, Miss Ada Rew, Miss Peggy Waidner and Miss Cynthia Wilson. Indian Hill club and Skokie Country club also have entertainments down on the social calendar for both adults and children. Indian Hill will have its annual Christmas carol "sing" with an outdoor party and a tea to follow on Saturday afternoon, December 22, and on New Year's eve, December 31, there is to be a gala supper dance. Skokie has announced a Christmas and Winter Sports dinner dance for December 22, and a children's party for the after- noon of December 29. Parties for the sub debs include a dance to be given on December 24, at which Miss Virginia Lamson, Miss Lucy Jacobs and Miss Welthyan Har- mon will be co-hostesses, at Indian Hill. Miss Chloe Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Watson of 700 Ardsley road, will give a tea dance on the afternoon of December 28, and that Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stanton 'evenin, in for their son and daugh- Gamma Phi Beta to Stage Vaudeville Show Benefit The Gamma Phi Beta sorority at Northwestern university, active and alumnae chapters, will stage a vaude- ville show Saturday evening, January 19, at the Evanston Woman's club, under the direction of Miss Hope Summers of Evanston. Miss Lillian Woodworth of Chicago is the business manager and Miss Helen Northrop of Evanston is in charge of the ticket sale. The chapter house in the women's quadrangle is now the scene of great activity, since the girls already have begun rehearsing for the choruses under the direction of Miss Dorothy Steinert, a member of the sorority who has a dance studio. After they have wearied from their intensive practice, one may hear the Harmony Girls as they diligently work together under the leadership of Mrs. John Freeman of Evanston and Mrs. A. Steele of Chi- cago. The event promises to be a real vaudeville. Part of the proceeds of the show will go to the sorority's camp for underprivileged children at Denver, olo. Makes Debut Miss Charlotte Picher made her de- but last Saturday afternoon at an un- usually lovely tea given by her mother, Mrs. Oliver S. Picher, 226 Sheridan road. Miss Picher wore a gown of silver lace and white tulle, made with a long bodice and bouffant skirt of the tulle. She carried a colonial bouquet of roses, violets and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Picher's gown was of ashes of roses lace and chiffon and she wore a shoulder bouquet of orchids. The name of Miss Jean MacLeish, who is home from Wellesley for a few weeks, was added to the list of assist- ing debutantes. Entertain for Visitor Mr. and Mrs. William W. Powers of Madison, Wis. . who were formerly residents of Winnetka visited here last week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Barrett Conway of 387 Linden avenue. They were here for the Wallace-Hinch- man wedding. During their visit, Mr. and Mrs. Conway entertained at din- ner Friday night for them. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M.' Barrett entertained Satuday night at the Club Vista del Lago, and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wolff of Ravinia entertained Sunday night at supper. Children See Puppets A Puppet show and gay balloons de- lighted about 130 children at the af- ternoon affair given especially in their honor at the Club Vista del Lago Fri- day of last week. Accompanying the children were fifty mothers who en- joyed several hours of social inter- course over their cups of tea. ter, Henry and Louise, at a dance at Indian Hill. The following evening, December 29, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cushman and Mr. and Mrs. Rosewell B. Mason will entertain at a dancing party to be given at Indian Hill for their daughters, Mary Cushman and Annie Mason. Mrs. Hermon Butler will issue in- vitations for a small skating party and luncheon which she will give in honor of her two grandsons, Hermon and Claude Beck, for Thursday, Decem- ber 27. The boys and their parents will spend the holidays with Mrs. Butler. Name Patrons, Patronesses for Dramatic Club Play When "Cap and Bells," the Williams College Dramatic club, makes its first appearance on the north shore on De- cember 28, at the North Shore Country Day school, it will present, "The Pig- eon," by John Galsworthy. This week announcement is made of those who will act as patrons and pa- tronesses for the event which will at- tract Chicago and north shore society. This list includes the following north shore residents: Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Andrews, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Fish, Mr. and Mrs. Austin D. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs. Louis North- rup, Mr. and Mrs, Wallace D. Rumsey, Mr. and Mrs, William P. Sidley, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Tenney, Mr. and Mrs. Hallett Thorne, of Winnetka; Mrs. Rudolph Matz, Mr. and Mrs. Mar- cus Richards, of Hubbard Woods; Mr. and Mrs. Auguste C. Babize of Glen- coe; Mr, and Mrs. Richard J. Harman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Russell Platt, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Stevens, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Tuthill, Jr, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin E. Tullis, of Evans- ton; Mr. and Mrs. Edwin T. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. George Allen Mason, of Highland Park; Mr. and Mrs. Keith Carpenter, Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Pattou, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart J. Temp- leton, of Lake Forest; Mr. and Mrs. Scott Durand of Lake Bluff. N. K. E. C. Faculty Hold Xmas Carnival A carnival commencing at 2 o'clock yesterday and lasting until 10 o'clock at night was sponsored by the faculty of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college. The affair was a combination of Christmas shops and amusements. The booths were arrayed with handwrought silver, jewelry, pearl beads, handwoven linen, pottery, Kor- ean brass, and Christmas sweetmeats. Side shows offered fortune telling, marionettes, and silhouette artists. A pawn shop was opened by Ikey, and the hot dog vendor, the ice cream sand- wich man, and the taffy apple dealer, each proclaimed the merits of his wares. Proceeds from the carnival will be devoted to the college building fund. Guest of Honor at Tea Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, 900 South Pri- vate road, was the guest of honor yes- terday afternoon at a large reception given for her at the Woman"s City club. Mrs. George Packard, Mrs. Harvey Tvlor, Miss Grace Temple, and Mrs. Alfred C. Tyler, the hostesses, issued cards to four-hundred of Mrs. Ickes friends and political associates, and there was also a general invitation ex- tended to the members of the Wom- an's City club to attend. Dinners to Precede Play Among those giving dinner parties before the Williams College Dramatic club's performance of Galsworthy's play, "The Pigeon," on December 28, are Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lindsay of 215 Ridge avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Brown, 1045 Dinsmore road. Clubs Entertain Tonight Indian Hill club will open its winter season this evening with a dinner dance. There is also to be a dinner and bridge party at Skokie Country club tonight. Young People Plan Numerous Yuletide Dancing Festivities Party frocks for nine dances, freshly pressed trousers for the same evenings! By the time the Christmas vacation is over the tired feet of high school students will drag back to the old desks and books . ... for a rest. The gayest of holiday seasons will open the night school closes on December 21, and rush through to a triumphant finish on January 5, with scarcely a pause for anything but Santa's presents. It would be interest- ing to speculate on how many pairs of silver slippers, how many new eve- ning dresses, how many first tuxedos, and how many, thrills of thrills, real evening coats, make their appearance under the Christmas trees on Decem- ber 25. Surely there will be some of these things to help fulfill the require- ments of such an exacting season! The first dance will be on Friday, December 21, at the Edgewater Beach hotel. The group of hostesses for the dance will be the Misses Muriel Wil- son, Catherine Past, Mary Forrest, Sarah Page, Eloise Kramer, Maurine Jones, Celeste Jones, Josephine Farley, Patricia Goodhue, and Virginia Taylor. A group of young men will be hosts on December 22, at the Evanston Country club. Ralph Warble, Donald M. French, Joseph Tuerck, Logan Bagly, William Bennett, Robert Gertel, Arthur Johnston, Charles Smith, Rich- ard Fuller, and Robert Gonsalves will be the hosts. Before the dance, Mr. Warble, Mr. French, and Mr. Tuerck will be hosts at dinner at the Georgian hotel. The Evanston Country club will again be the scene of a dance on De- cember 26, at which ten young women will be hostesses. They are the Misses Faith Burge, Martha Etzback, Eliza- beth Kelley, Mary Louise Cotton, Alice Feakins, Mable Throckmorton, Ruth Watts, Elizabeth Weber, Mary McDonald, and Ruth Shepherd. December 27, at the Evanston Country club, is another dance given by the Misses Mary Elizabeth Town- send, Martha Tencher, Shirley Ross, Gretchen Brever, Helene Mahan, Mary Elizabeth Parker, Virginia French, Marjorie Evers, and Ruth Wenter. The following will be hostesses at the Evanston Country club on the night of December 29: Misses Helen Blake, Dorothy Darling, Katherine Dudley, Georgianna Fowler, Virginia Healy, Doris Kimball, Marjorie Meeker, and Dorothy Stover. Ten young men will be hosts on January 3, at the Evanston Country club. They are Robert M. Brown, George E. Cogswell, Clifton L. Dar- ling, Jr., Dorland J. Davis, Leon T.. Dickinson, Robert K. Ellis, William M. Gibson, Carl B. Hall, William O. Kurtz, Jr., and Robert H. Simons. On January 4, at Skokie Country club, will be a dance given by the Misses Sarah Minor, Lois Nordburg, Janet Hughes, Barbara Laing, Helen Shep- herd, Evelyn Wienecke, Mary Karker, Nancy Knapp, Helen Brandriff, Har- riet Christie, Clara Cornell, Ruth En- right, Georgianna Gonsalves, Barbara Mearns, and Josephine Otter. The in- vitations for December 28, and 29, and January 2, are in the mail and the hostesses have not yet been announced. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Jenner of 1005 Hill road will entertain thirty-six guests at their table tonight at ths Indian Hill Country club dinner and dance.