Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-17
WH|TEH|LL TO SING
At CHAMBER FETE
Baritone, Who Played Role of
Washington in Film, on
Program.

/ Clarence Whitehill, baritone Of the
Metropolitan Opera Co., who plays the
role of George Washington in the BIZ
centennial talking picture, Washing
| ton-the Man and the Capital" will be
heard in several songs during the tWen-
ty-fifth anniversary banquet of the
| Washington Chamber Of Commerce,
January &c, at the Mayflower Hotel, 1t
was announced last night. The prin-
cipal guest of honor and speaker that
night will be Vice President Charles
| Curtis.
MIR. Whitehill is the star Of the BIZ
centennial picture being made by War;
ner Brothers, in association with the
| Chamber Of Commerce and with the
approval of the George Washington BIZ
centennial Commission.
Harry M. Warner, president OF War
ner Brothers, will attend the banquet
as a guest Of honor of the chamber,
with group of the officers of his firm.
In this connection, President Harry
King Of the chamber said that the
chamber in the past sponsored the first
showing in Washington of the Warner
Brothers Aim, my Four Years in Ger
many" by Ambassador James w.
Gerard, which film proved a great sue
cess.
Wins Wide Praise.
Mr.. Whitehill, whose ancestors set
tied on a grant of land in Virginia in
1740, was born in Marengo, Iowa
studied both here and abroad, and has
been praised widely for his art. Since
1915 he has been associated with the
Metropolitan Opera Co.
Thomas P. Littlepage, chairman of
the chambers 25th Anniversary Ban
quet Committee, announces that the
following honor guests have been in
vited to attend the banquet:
Secretary of State Stimson, Secre-
| tary Of the Treasury Mellon, Secretary
of War Hurley, Attorney General
, Mitchell, Postmaster General Brown,
Secretary of Navy Adams, Secretary of
Interior Wilbur, Secretary of Agricul-
ture Hyde, Secretary of Commerce La
| mont, Secretary of Labor Doak, Gen
John j. Pershing and John NJ Garner
| Speaker of the House
Senators James E. Watson. Simeon
D. FesS, Hiram Bingham, Arthur Cap
| per, Wesley L. Jones, John j. Blaine,
Hamilton F. Kean. Robert D. Carey
Otis F. Glenn, Warren r. Austin
William H. King. Carter Glass, Royal
| S. Copeland. Millard E. Tydings,
Thomas P. Gore, J. Hamilton Lewis
John H. Bankhead and Hendrix Ship
, stead
Representatives Invited.
Representatives Mary T. Norton, Vim
| cent L. Palmisano, Wright Patman
| Howard w Smith, Allard H. Gasque,
| Loring M Black, ]. Bayard Clark
Ralph Gilbert, Lynn s. Hornor, Byron
| B. Harlan, Clarence j. Mcleod, Ed
ward M. Beers, Gale H. Stalker, Frank
L. Bowman, Patrick j. Sullivan, James
l.. Whitley, c. B. McClintock, Freder-
! lex M. Davenport and Pehr c. Holmes
| Representative Sol Bloom, associate
| director, U. S. George Washington BIZ
| centennial Commission; DR.. Cloyd H
Marvin, chairman, and DR.. George c.
| Havenner, executive v:ce chairman, d
C.. George Washington Bicentennial
Commission; DR.. Leo S. Rowe director
Pan American Union; Judge John Bar
ton Payne, chairman, American Red
Gross; Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart
| president. D A. R.; Bishop William
F.. Mcdowell, Miss Mabel T. Boardman
John Hays Hammond, Theodore w
| Moves, John Joy Edison, Edward F. Col
laday, John Poole, Lloyd B. Wilson
| William F. Ham and John H. Hanna.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. Admiral
| William v. Pratt, Rear Admiral William
A. Moffett, F. Trubee Dawson, Col.
Clarence M. Young, Col. U. S. Grant,
Sd; William John Cooper, commissioner
of education; Commissioner Luther H.
| Reichelderfer, Gen. Herbert B. Crosby
and Acting Engineer Commissioner
| Maj Donald A. Dawson, Silas H.
| StraWn, President United States Cham
Der of Commerce Theodore G. Joslin,