Evening star., 1940-12-08

Acceptances from 43 children of
diplomats from 33 foreign countries
have been received for the ninth
annual international chlldren'S
Christmas party, which will be
broadcast December 20 over the Ma
tional Broadcasting Co.'S blue net
work and sent by short wave around
the world.
Martha Josephine Black, daughter
of Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Hugo l..
Black, will make her first appear
ance on the program, which is to
be sponsored by the N B. c. and the
Greater National Capital Commit
tee of the Washington Board of
Trade.
Some Program veterans"
Are Under 10 Years Old.
Marjorie Bertha de Morgenstierne,
the 9-year-old daughter of the Nor
wegian Minister and Nine. Munthe
de Morgenstierne, and 10-year-old
Pola Fotitch, daughter of the Yugo-
slavic Minister and Nine. Fotitch,
will take part for the sixth time,
and another veteran performer, g.
year-old Llama De Bayle, daughter
of the Nicaraguan Minister and
Sonora de De Bayle, will make her
fourth appearance. Guatemala,
which has had a participant in
every show since its inception, will
be represented this year by Isabel
Recinos, daughter of the Minister
and Sonora de Recinos.
Many other children will extend
for the first time their word of
Christmas greeting in their native
tongues to young compatriots in
their homelands and in English to
the children of the United States.
The program will originate again
this year from the Hall of Nations
Ballroom Of the Washington Hotel,
from 5 to $50 o'clock, and once
more the Marine Band Orchestra,
with Capt. William Santelman di-
recting, will play the national an
thems of those present.
Many Others Who Plan
To Participate Are Listed.
Other children who have accepted
the invitation to participate are
young Ellie Lescot, jr., son of the
Haitian Minister and Nine. LeScot,
Amt Hassan Bay and Naval Hassan,
son and daughter of the Egyptian
Minister and Nine. Hassan; Carl
and Willie Bruggmann, sons of the
Swiss Minister and Nine. Brugg-
mann; Jane and Dom Casey, daugh-
ter and son of the Australian Min
lister and Mrs. Casey; Maria Fer
nandez, daughter of the Costa Rican
Minister and Sonora de Fernandez;
Usni, 6-year-old daughter of the
Thai Minister and Nine. Semi
Pramoj: Norbert LIE Calais, son of
the Luxembourg Minister and Nine.
LIE Calais: Georges Leonard, son
OF the Assistant Agricultural Attache
OF the Belgian Embassy and Nine
Leonard: Patricia dorado Chapitea
daughter of the First Secretary of
the Bolivian Legation and Sonora
de Chapitea; Pablo Alencastro Gui-
maraes. son of the First Secretary
of the Brazilian Embassy and Sen
hora de Guimaraes; Patrick and
Norma Reid, children of the Second
Secretary of the Canadian Legation
and Mrs. Reid: Margarita Gazitua.
daughter of the Chilean Charge
d'Affaires and Sonora de Gazitua;
Joe and Maria Esther Kuo, children
Of the Military Attache of the
Chinese Embassy and Nine. Kuo:
Marie Elvira Vargas, daughter of
the First Secretary of the Colom-
bian Embassy and Sonora de Var
gas; Charles Cervenka, son of the
First Secretary of the Czecho-Slo-
wax Legation and Nine Cervenka: 4:
Wenceslao Battle, son of the First
Secretary of the Dominican Lega-
ton and Sonora de Battle: Klaus
and Simikka Solanko, children of
the Secretary of the Finnish Lega-
ton and Nine Solanko: Andre
Baeyens, son of the First Secretary
Of the French Embassy and Baron
ess Baeyens: Elizabeth Pirie, daugh-
ter of the Air Attache of the British
Embassy and Mrs. Pirie: Parvis and
Parvin. son and daughter of the
First Secretary of the Iran and
Nine. Hadjeb-Davallou; Giovannella
Infante daughter of the Military