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3 LosangclC0 Cimcs1 MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1951 Fort in Toby Meggs Makes Debut During Yule Party Held in Parents' Pasadena Home Red is for Christmas and red and gold it was for Las Madrinas' Christmasy Debutante Ball. The town's still talking about that very special evening. Debutantes seemed prettier than ever lovely white, bouffant gowns dramatic red camellia bouquets and on every table fat, red Christmas tree ornaments. Fleeting Memories: Cute, young debs doing the Charleston at the "debutantes only" whirl when the orchestra broke into "Sweet Georgia Brown" there were only two debs left and a whole new crop of other guests out to show their prowess at that devastating dance "Ain't She Sweet" was the tune when fathers and daughters twirled (those proud masculine 4 w- I good prexy Bob Cheese-wright for his deb introductions. Earlier: Stopped by Barbara-and Joe Shell's cocktail party Hello to: Ruth and Bob Alexander, Maurine and Bob Campbell, Dodie and Dick Wheat on, Midge and.

Bernard Kearney (hear the Hawaiian party in their Pasadena home for Cynthia Rawlins and her fiance was terrific), Pat and Dr. Dick Dillon, Eleanor and Ted Vandling, the Harold Mortons More top hats at the ball this year than ever before! Flashbacks: (new subject) As Linda and Jack Barra-clough held their twin sons, Gary and Scotty, (just eight months) for their preview at grandparents Gretchen and George Barraclough's recent party someone asked Jack, "Which twin is that?" Quick scrutiny and he answered, "Oh, THIS is my elder son!" Party Patter: Dottie and Chris Petzelt will gather long-time friends Sunday from 5 to 8 in their Van Nuys home Jackie and Bob Moore have invited friends Valley-ward to their open house Thursday. Special reason year, too, 'cuz Jackie's mother, Mrs. Clara Walker, and brother-in-law and sister, Lt. Col.

and Mrs. George Niblock, with son Gary are here. Mrs. W. down from Washington and the Niblocks back from several years in Tokyo en route to their new Midwest With JAMES COPP -4 'V)' fr -1.

Vl I) i i xV xj Ernest Duque bowed so gallantly to his daughter. Margaret Mary Joyce Converse and Betty Phelps have such young looking fathers Barbara Stew-art is such a cute little gal Margaret Mathews' lovely smile Sherry Viault's graceful manner Kathy Howard's shining eyes Patty Carroll, Elizabeth Duque, Joan Irvine, Deborah Toll, Marcia Sue Belle Browning Let's name them all! And those glasses of milk lined vp on the debutante tables! Programs: If you flicked the pages of those crimson and gold programs, you saw a wonderful story The Chil-drens Hospital Convalescent Home and best of all that last picture "going home" with a little girl walking out well That is the Debutante Ball means. Applause: Eileen Kranz and Cynie Pallette for chairman-ning a beautiful party Mary Helm for her talk about the home Liz Duque, a SILVER-BLUE SMOKE TREE boughs dominated winter decor at wedding of lovely Ann Louise Davie to Thomas Henry Martin, a Saturday ceremony in Pasadena church. Bernard photo Ann Davies Becomes Mrs. Thomas Martin decor was carried out in the at- More Than 100 Friends Attend Fete BY CORDELL HICKS Society Editor One of the pleasantest parties of the Christmas season was given by Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Winfield Meggs at their home in Pasadena to present to society their debutante daughter, Miss Toby Meggs. More than 100 friends of Miss Meggs and of the Meggs family called during the late afternoon and early evening. Yule logs burned in the fireplaces, and Christmas wreaths were hung on the balustrade and above the mantels in the main rooms. Mrs.

Meggs and her daughter received in the large foyer which was dominated by a towering Christmas tree lighted and decked from base to the tip, which brushed the ceiling. Simply Fashioned Frock The debutante wore a simply fashioned bouffant frock of white lace and lace mitts. Her only jewelry was a strand of- small pearls. Mrs. Meggs' gown was fashioned from a handsome brocade in medieval colors hand-woven in France.

Miss Margaret Brown Meggs and Miss Victoria Meggs assisted with the dispensing of hospitality. Miss Meggs was born In California and schooled at Miss Bolton's Country Day School in Westport, CU and Westridge in Pasadena. She was president of her senior class at Westridge. She is now in her first year at Wellesley. Buffet Supper Given The debutante is the grand daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. William E. Meggs of Grosse Pointe, and of Gananoque, Ontario. Miss Meggs often has visited in the Meggs family home there, the Bluffs, over looking the St. Lawrence River.

Her maternal grandparents are the late Edward George Brown of Grosse Pointe and Mrs. F. L. Moore of Los Angeles. To Dine at Hunt Club On Thursday, Miss Lucie Welles and Miss Cynthia Mar garet Holyoke are compliment ing the debutante with a lunch eon party at the Valley Hunt Club.

Guests will be Misses Elaine Pottenger, Katharine How ard, Susie Hotchkiss, Frances Hereford, Jean Johnson, Shirley Chance, Harriet Hoy, Jonna Baker, Peggy Ryan, Linda Fish er, isancy Laine, uorotny jfren-tice, Marianne Pearcy, Joan Irvine, Ann Crawford, Margaret Herz, Dorothy Hughes, Dorothy Lewis, Ann Roberts and Ann Armfield. A number of other parties have been planned for Miss Turn to Page 2, Column 1 Pasadena Presbyterian Church; was bedecked with silver-blue smoke tree branches and white flowers backgrounded with greenery for the Saturday afternoon wedding of Ann Louise Davies to Thomas Henry Martin. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gibbs Davies of Pasadena, wore a beautiful gown of Chantilly lace and ivory slipper satin designed with an illusion yoke and full cathedral train.

Preceding her up the aisle, which was festooned with silver holly and blue and silver spheres caught by satin streamers, were Mrs. Richard Potts, matron of honor; Frances Hereford, Judy Baker, Joan Blaine, Marilyn Belknap and the flower girl, Col-een Star. The frost-blue color MAKES DEBUT Miss TobyMeggs was presented to society at a Christmas open house given by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Winfield Meggs of Pasadena.

Miss Meggs, a graduate of Westridge, is a freshmen at Wellesley. Brill Albert photo 1 Arcadia Woman's Club undertook the project of determining the needs of these children, ranging in ages from 6 months to 17 years, and then obtaining the gifts. The home of Mrs. W. D.

Gibbs, 1504 Santa Anita Drive, Arca dia, has been the depository for hundreds of Rifts. Sixteen mem bers of the division have worked daily in two shifts to wrap, tag and pack the parcels. Mrs. R. A.

Munro is chairman Working with her and Mrs. Gibbs are Mmes. Ted Ford. F. C.

Strat ford. II. A. Birke, A. W.

Anger. A. Morris Collins, Eleanor Stairs, Temple Hoffman, Robert Titge-meyer, Vern Mitchell, William S. Bradner. C.

A. McElderry, and D. E. Marsh. Toys Reconditioned The committee reconditioned some toys and painted others Another group wrapped and tagged more than 300 gifts, in cluding dolls, toy animals, cosmetics, new garments, under clothing, wallets, pen and pencil sets.

Youth groups were called upon to help supply the kind of articles that young persons of comparable age like to have. The 4-H Club of Arcadia. directed by Mrs. James K. Thompson, made 12 skirts for girls and 12 sport shirts for older boys.

A generous cash donation was made by the Ar cadia Rotaryanns and an anonymous donor made possible the purchase of sweaters to match the skirts. lambda Chi Theta supplied gifts, and members of the Arcadia Red Cross Chapter production department dressed new dolls and repaired used clothing. tendants' dresses which were contrasted by the cascades of American Beauty roses they car ried. The bridegroom, son of Mr. and Mrs.

S. N. Martin of South Pasa dena, Jiad as his groomsmen Charles Shryock, best man; Pe ter Heller, Gary Miles Davies, Walter Lord Jr. and Gordon Pickett. Richard Potts Jr.

was the ring-bearer. Some 400 guests, many from Los Angeles, Long Beach, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, at tended the wedding and reception that followed in Annandale Golf Club. The mother of the bride received in a champagne crepe model with Mrs. Martin Sr. choosing a full length Tahi-tian blue gown.

AT PARTY TWO RED Eyes ClarhV out Society: You may think you're covering ground this holiday season but the busiest boys in our block are the musicians and just to show you on Saturday Barney Sorkin'i orch flew by chartered plane to Fresno and played at the Russell Giffen dinner-dance, grabbed a little shut-eye, and flew back next day in time to play at Carolyn Wellborn's open house on Adams Blvd. as well at Martha Ann Chappie's party in Hancock Park as well as the Guilford Babcock tribe's party In Pasadena! Fun? PARTY BITS: A cigarette mishap at the Guy C. Earl Jr. party for Guy III ar.d his college friends and if Mrs. Earl hadn't done a quick 6print to the kitchen and back with pans of water and doused that library sofa, Hancock Park might have had real excitement to talk about AS JF the BUI Dougherty party in Pasadena weren't en tertainment enough for one night, Pat and George Skakel and others drove back to the Skakel house and George did magic tricks tUl nearly dawn.

AT PAT and Dan Thompson's champagne punch party on Sycamore the talk was all Ross-Ross-Ross. (You probably recall how, when Terry and Dick Ross baby arrived unexpectedly one morning at 2, and they couldn't reach the doctor, Dick did the honors). At the Thompson party he was so besieged by hero worshipers he hardly got beyond the door and his voice was by then so hoarse he could hardly speak. NEXT NIGHT, at the Mulr-field Road cocktall-dance Winifred Knles and her brother Holmes Penn Jr. gave for Ann (Dorner) and Joe Kean and soon-to-be-wed Sheila Torrance and Alden Pearce, more chatter of same fun-loving Joan'Winchell (in snaky black cocktail dress and wide-brimmed black and red hat with egret) standing in the crowd- ed reception hall excitedly telling the story to Huble Laugharn now someone bumping into Joan and knocking her hat askew.

YOU COULD search ad infinitum for a better party People milling through the r-eeption hall, the living room (where many danced to Ron Perry's superb music) and adjacent rooms Lucia and John Myers, the Lewis Torrance, Edith and Gus Mark, the H. E. Penns. Jeanne and John Archer (John AG. AIM with that awning haircut: he rolled the awning tip for two parties last week but couldn't stand the glare) John Truesdale in the bar talking to Erin ConsU dine and Jim Lane Betty Brown.

Josh Branninq (silver Stardust on her eyelids) A FEW others: Marie Caney, the Chester TearcM. Mrs. Howard Penn, Burdlck Williams with Althea Hunt. Jim Simpson with Alice Warwick. John Vlsscher (home at last from Alaska).

Bill Horn. Marilyn and Rufus Rodgers. Bob Berlan Jones. Nancy Elklns and fiance Desmond Hinds, Bill Burke. Arcadia Units Undertake Children Gift Project ft fa? -f -n HELENE BOORSE'S TROTH ANNOUNCED Mr.

and Mrs. Hugo Clarke Boorse of Ojai and Beverly Hills were hosts to close friends of their daughter, Helene Margaret Boorse, at a cocktail party yesterday, choosing the occasion to announce her engagement. She will be married next spring to Lin-wood Samson McCord, descendant of pioneer Portland (Or.) families. Miss Boorse, a past president of Beverly Hills Flower Guild, is a member of Friday Morning Club and Phi Beta. She is an alumna of Marlborough School and Stanford.

Mr. McCord is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Clive McCord of Portland. duty.

Short Takes: The Alfred Wrights to New York for a white Christmas with daughter Mickey, who is a career gal there everybody excited about Santa Anita's opening Fri day, with lots of parties planned after the races nice to see Peggy Rauen Bolstad here for the holidays from Washington, D.C. Ditto Pembroke Rath bone from Texas tials uniting the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lorimer Johnston and the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Cyrus N. Ostrup. Bridal attendants, dressed in full-skirted white satin brocade trimmed in white velvet, were Marion Johnston, maid of honor; Mrs." Paul G. Jenkins, Annabelle Laugharn, Janet MacLeod, Leti-tia Ohmer, Patricia Schell and Anne Sutherland. All had white velvet" bands in their hair and carried white flowers tied with green satin streamers.

The bride's gown was fashioned of Alencon lace ovef ivory tulle and satin, the bouffant skirt drifting into a cathedral train. Wftite orchids and steph-anotis composed the bouquet, and a lace cap caught the full-length veil. Michael Pontrelli was best man. Ushering guests were Murray Swagord, Malcolm Florence, Dick Freeman, Richard Harper, Roger and Horace Pitkin Christmas decor was used at the reception in the Johnston home on Las Palmas Ave. From there the newlyweds left to honeymoon in Arizona, planning to make their home in Beverly Hills.

i i i nit, i in mwiiOi in hi uwS DECEMBER BRIDE All-white motif was used at wedding of Judith Maxwell Johnston to Cyrus N. Ostrup Jr. Ray Huff photo Judith Maxwell Johnston Wed to C. N. Ostrup Jr.

BY ELIZABETH GOODLAXD Nearly 200 underprivileged children in Arcadia, including many orphans, will receive Christmas gifts they particularly want and other gifts as well. The evening division of the SON WELCOMED BY VON HOFES Pleased and excited over the arrival of their first child, a son, are Dr. and Mrs. Harold von Hofe (Le-nore Curtis) of Mullen Ave. The boy.

who has been named Harold Edward, weighed in at 8 pounds at the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. The baby's father is head of the SC German department. of the Toy Loan Auxiliary Greiner appear just as Dawson) as the children, left Occasion was a children's Mil Brossy-Kay Vows Said in Beverly Red antheriums from Hawaii decorated the Sun Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel for the wedding reception of Frances Kay and Frederic Albert Brossy Jr. Saturday evening. The couple greeled their friends immediately after reciting their nuptial vows in Westwood Community Methodist Church.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold T. Kay, parents of the bride, came from Honolulu for the nuptials and Capt. Frederic Albert Brossy, USN, and Mrs.

Brossy, the bride groom's parents, were here from Philadelphia. Attendants Listed The bride's gown of candlelight satin entrain was complimented by a long heirloom rose-point lace bridal Veil once worn by her mother. Heavy ruby-red satin fashioned the attendants' gowns. In the entourage were Mrs. Robert Lee Langdale, Mrs.

Rush Cameron Hinsdale, Mrs: E. B. Burgeson, Mrs. Ray K. Person Jr.

(Justine Chenoweth) and Miss Mandy Lu Beckner. Roger Dakin tood with the bridegroom as best man. Ushers were Richard Finley, Sanford Newton Jr, Alan Cooke Kay and Harold Kay. Rich fabrics in winter white gave particular beauty to the wedding of. Judith Maxwell Johnston to Cyrus N.

Ostrup Jr, a ceremony performed Saturday evening by Dr. Louis Evans. Christmas greens, white candles and flowers filled Bethel Lutheran Church for the nup- OPEN HOUSE HONORS PAIR Sharlene Trevelyn Anderson and Richard Russell Jones were congratulated on their engagement at an open house yesterday afternoon. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Rollin Knight Anderson, were hosts in their Rancho Santa Anita home, 1130 Singing Wood Drive. The bridegroom-elect, who attended Southwestern Military Academy, is now home on leave from USAF's technical training school at Shep-pard AFB. Texas. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Russell Richard Jones of Arcadia, plan a party for the newly engaged couple Saturday. NOLL AND COEN NAMES TO BE LINKED JAN. 5 Martha Elizabeth Coen, whose engagement to Page Noll Jr. was announced yesterday at a cocktail party for a group of intimate friends, Is in the midst of wedding plans for Jan. 5.

Hosts for the announcement fete were her mother, Mrs. Edwin Gilbert of South Pasadena and Seattle and Mr. Gilbert. Miss Coen. daughter of the late Clarence E.

Coen of Creston, will relinquish membership In The Spinsters with her marriage next month to the son of Mr. and Mrs. Noll Sr. of Los Angeles. The bride-elect, who has been pursuing a business career in San Francisco, Is a Kappa Kappa Gamma and a graduate of UCLA.

Her fiance affiliated with Sigma Phi Epsilon at SC where he was graduated. WIDE EYES do not belong solely to the youngsters. Members of the Assistance League, Mrs. James Barrie, left, and Mrs. L.

enthralled at the puppet manipulated from above by Clifford to right, Joann Erickson, Harold Dembo and -Raymond Karr. party sponsored by auxiliary at neto loan center at Bunker. Hills Playground. Ttmei photo i -wi ni Ai A A i ---ii iiir--'.