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Mrs. Roosevelt started 20 minutes
behind schedule on her rounds OF
= the dances, appeared first at the
Raleigh Hotel. She wore red chif-
fon gown over which was an ermine
coat collared in white fox. Her
jewelry. matching in necklace,
bracelet and bodice pin, consisted OF
oddly-shaped little shells, resem-
bling horns. She carried four
orchids.
Stars Take Bows.
Three stars, Pat O'Brien, James
Cagney and Dorothy Lamour, ar
rived at the Raleigh before Mrs.
Roosevelt, but Miss Lamour was to
meet the Presidents wife later so
she secluded herself in an anteroom
while the other two took the bows
with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Speeding on to the Washington
Hotel and then the Hamilton, Mrs.
Roosevelt later met all the stars as
she went along, except Miss La
mour and Mickey Rooney, who
were scheduled to join her at the
Shoreham. In the face of the huge
crowd that greeted her there, Mrs.
Roosevelt expressed her brief greet
ing to the dancers from a small
stairway on one side of the room
and did not wait for the appearance
of the Hollywood visitors.
At the Wardman Park, Gordon
<fIittenmark, master of ceremonies
tried to induce more enthusiastic
smile from Tyrone Power for Mrs.
Roosevelt.
"Ty." said Mr.. Hittenmark, cant
YOU smile better than that for Mrs.
ROOSEVELT"
Tyrone shifted his position and
responded: .
"She hasn't asked me to smile"
She did, and he smiled, much to
the delight of the feminine guests.
Mrs. Roosevelt stayed longest at
the Mayfower, where the damned
guests were torn between observ-
ing her and following Kay Kyser,
who came back from his round of
the hotels shortly before Mrs.
Roosevelt arrived to cut the birth
day cake. Half the guests packed
into the ballroom faced the orches-
ira, while the others watched Mrs.
Roosevelt.
Presidents Message Heard.
The Presidents message, for
which Mrs. Roosevelt waited at the
Mayfower, after cutting the three
tier, 312-pound cake. came into that
ballroom without introduction.
Suddenly, over the murmur OF
many voices, came the words, Il
wish that everybody within sound
of my voice" and the murmur
died down as Mrs. Roosevelt closed
her eyes to catch every word.
Greeted at the Mayfower by Post
master General Farley, Mrs. STAN
ley Reed, wife of the Supreme Court
justice; Mrs. Cary Grayson and
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen,
among others, Mrs. Roosevelt cut
the birthday cake as the crowd,
led by Kyser, sang Happy Birth
day, Mr.. President"
Hardly able to contain his en-
thusiasm for the cake he had baked,
the Mayf1ower chef alternately cut
slices of the cake and stood in
silence during the Presidents broad
cast. When he handed a piece
of the cake to Mrs. Roosevelt, she
Immediately sought handkerchief
to relieve sticky hands. For the
record, Kyser produced a neatly
folded handkerchief, despite his
hectic evening, while one of the
officials brought forth a crumpled
, one.
Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied
on her round of the hotels by
Thomas P. Morgan, jr, chairman
of the Reception and Floor Com
mittee; Col George S. Patton, jr.,
commandment at Fort Myer; Maj.
Horace Smith and two members of
the Metropolitan Police Force, Capt.
Ira E. Keck and Chief of Detectives
Bernard w. Thompson. The latter
two were somewhat startled at the
Hamilton Hotel when a member of
the floor committee pushed them
back into the crowd as star-seers.
O'Brien Cuts Finger.
O'Brien was the only celebrity to
suffer bodily harm in the pushing,
pulling crowds. At the Shoreham
an over-enthusiastic fan reached
for the stars hand and in tugging
away from the grasp, Pat cut his
finger on the guests ring. The star
completed the rounds of the balls
after dressing the wound hurriedly
with adhesive and later visited a
doctor at the Carlton Hotel.
There the entire Hollywood con-
tingent joined with members of
Congress diplomats, Government
officials and socialites in the cele-
bration's grand finale, the Gold
Plate Breakfast.
, Edward G. Robinson led Bill Nc
Cune's orchestra while Mickey
Rooney beat out swing rhythm on
the drums. Franklin D. Roosevelt,