Evening star., 1939-01-29
District 10 Dance
AT Seven Balls
Tomorrow
Mrs. Roosevelt and
II Film Stors to Aid
Paralysis Fund Work

Paralysis Fund Work
Washington will dance tomorrow
night at seven Birthday Balls so
that children here and throughout
the country may walk again.
Climaxing the two-week campaign
to fight infantile paralysis, the
Birthday Balls are expected to bring
thousands of Washingtonians to the
seven hotels to dance away the night
and see Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
and II film celebrities.
The roster of stars will be COM
pleted today when Andrea Leeds,
Jean Hersholt, Mitzi Green, Ralph
Bellamy, Bruce Cabot, Luise Rainer,
Enrol Flynn and Eleanor Powell
come to town. Annabella, the petite
French star, flew here yesterday and
George Brent arrived Thursday. Mr..
Flynn, who returned to New York
after riding in the horse show at
Fort Myer Wednesday. will precede
his wife, Lili Damita, by one day.
Miss Damita, who is coming in from
the West Coast, will get here tomor-
row at $50 am.
In addition to the largest con.
tingent of screen celebrities ever as
sembled here for the birthday cele-
bration, there will be other featured
attractions in the persons of Frank
Fay, radio and vaudeville headliner,
and Red" Shelton, comedian.
Whiteman's Band to Be Here.
Two famous bands will Join the
regular hotel bands. They are Paul
Whiteman's Orchestra, which will
play at the Mayf1ower, and Eddie
LIE Baron's, which is scheduled to
play at the Willard and at the gold
| plate breakfast in the Carlton.
The balls will be held at the Ham,
ilton, Washington, Raleigh, Willard,
Mayf1ower, Shoreham and Ward
man Park. Each hotel will have a
floor show, with a master of cere-
monies recruited from the radio
stations in charge.
Each ticket will admit the bear
er to any or all of the hotels. The
tickets, costing $3.50 apiece, are
available at the American Automo-
bile Association, the Young Mems
Christian Association, the Army
and Navy Club, the Keystone Auto
mobile Club, the larger depart
ment stores, all police stations and
flrehouses, all Government depart
ments and practically all hotels.
/ President and Mrs. Roosevelt will
attend the command performance
of outward Bound" the New York
stage success, which comes to the
National Theater tonight for
single showing. The New York cast,
headed by Florence Reed and Lau-
rette Taylor, is making the special
trip to help the infantile paralysis
campaign.
Midnight Shows and Sports.
The Presidents birthday cele-
bration will include midnight shows
at the Capitol and Earle Theaters
tomorrow night and a benefit bas-
ket ball game between Catholic
University and Loyola College Of
Baltimore.
Tickets for the shows at the Earle
and Capitol Theaters cost ST and
can be purchased at the box Office.
The shows start at 11:30 pm. and
include complete stage shows from
both theaters, the featured screen
attraction and personal appearances
by all the visiting movie stars.
The basket ball game will be held
at Brookland gymnasium on the
Catholic University campus at $50
pm.
Proceeds from all events in con-
nection with the Presidents BIRTH
day celebration will be divided
equally between the National Foun-
dation for Infantile Paralysis and
local chapter to be formed in1me-
diately after the celebration. The
foundation will be occupied with SCI
entiflc research. education and
epidemics, while the local group will
distribute funds to individual cases
and institutions for the care and
rehabilitation of victims of the dis
ease. Children's Hospital, which
takes care of more than $50 in
fantile paralysis cases year in its
clinics, is expected to receive the
largest share of the local fund.
Stars to Be Entertained.
Official entertainment for the Wis
ting stars includes a formal dinner
given by Commissioner Melvin c.
Hazen at the Shoreham Hotel to-
night, reception at the District
Building tomorrow morning, lunch
con at the White House with Mrs.
Roosevelt and Commissioner Ha-
zen's cocktail party in the Willard
room at the Willard tomorrow after
noon at $50 pm.
Washington will have a chance to
hear the stars before it sees them.
There will be broadcast from the
District Building reception over
VOL from 11:15 to HAS am. to-
morrow. At the same time the broad
cast will be Transcribed so that aft
ernoon listeners will catch the same
program over WJSV between $3.50
and I pm.
All four radio stations will carry
the broadcast from the Willard room
at $50 pm. tomorrow when the
stars make personal appeals to the
radio listeners to do their part to-
ward making the birthday balls a
success. Norman c. Kal and David
B. Stein will act as masters Of cere-
monies for the broadcast.
Although Mrs. Roosevelt's itin-
erary of hotels has been kept secret,
it is known that she will cut the
birthday cake at the Wardman
Park Hotel She will listen to the
Presidents birthday address at the
hotel while the stars 60 to the White
House for the broadcast.
The movie celebrities, who will be
on the 60 from pm. until after
/ am, will be given few minutes
to rest in their hotels before attend
ing the Gold Plate Breakfast at
the Carlton.