Evening star., 1942-11-01
Benefit Concert
Given Support
Of Diplomats
Success Is Assured
Symphony Program
This Wednesday
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her home on the Rockville road,
for the winter, will have guests
with her in her box Wednesday
evening. The Assistant Secre-
tary of State and Mrs. Adolf A.
Eerle, jr., are among the officials
OF the Federal Government who
are boXholders, others including
the chairman of the War Man
power Commission and Mrs. Paul
" McNutt, the Director of the
Materials Division of the War
Production Board and Mrs. Will
liam L. Bait, the Assistant Direc-
tor of the United States Office of
War Information and Mrs. Arch
ibald MacLeish and the secre-
tary to the President, Maj. Gen.
Edwin M. Watson, and Mrs. Wat
son.
Associate Justice of the Su-
preme Court and Mrs. Robert H.
Jackson also are boXholders. as
Is the Resident Commissioner of
the Philippines, Mr.. j. M. Elizalde.
Also Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold A. Brooks, Mr. and
Mrs. Matthew Byrnes Claussen, Miss
Alice Clapp, Mr.. and Mrs. Morris
Cafritz, DR.. and Mrs. Tomas Cajigas,
Former Secretary of War and Mrs.
Dwight F. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs.
George A. Garrett, Col. and Mrs.
Guggenheim, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Gingrich, Countess Gainsborough,
Judge and Mrs. Clarence Norton
Goodwin, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Bruce
Howe, Mrs. Randall H. Hagner, MI.
Coleman Jennings, Mrs. Ira Bird
Kirkland, jr.; Mrs. George Hewitt
Myers and Mr.. and Mrs. Jouett
ShouSe.
Mrs. Guggenheim has working
with her a group of hostesses who
are prominent socially, including
Nine. Loudon, Nine. Wei, Sonora de
Caceres, wife of the Honduran Min
lister; Mrs. William O. Douglas, Mrs.
Robert H. Jackson, Mrs. Cajigas,
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Claussen,
Mrs. Gingrich, Mrs. James Mcmillan
Gibson, Mrs Hagner, Mrs. James
Lawrence Houghteling, Mrs. Howe,
Mrs. Goodwin, Mrs. Emory Scott
Land, Mrs. Reeve Lewis, Mrs. Will
liam T. Mann, Mrs. MacLeish, Mrs.
James M. Souby and Mrs. Shouse.
A junior committee plans to dec
crate the boxes with the flags Of
the United Nations, which Includes
those countries which will directly
benefit from the proceeds of the
concert. These proceeds will be
turned over to the Community War
Fund as the contribution of the
National Symphony Orchestra +:
the united front effort. Members
of the junior committee also will be
present Wednesday evening to dis
tribute the programs. Serving on
this committee under the direction
of Mrs. kirkland are Senorita Girls
tina Michels, Mile. Jacoba Meier
Ranneft, the Misses Mary Lord An
dreWs, Marion Classen, Sybella
Clayton, Achsah Dorsey, Jessica
johnson, Muriel Maddox, Beverly
Marshall, Joan McKenna. Martha
Belle Moore, Marion Norris, Peter
Norris, Virginia Pennington, Mary
Stuart Montague Price. Suzanne
Happier, Marjorie Souby, Betty
Frost, Pat Eerbst, Courtney Owens,
Charlotte ORourke, Mary Degnan,
Evelyn Alexander, Mary Belts,
Anita Cajigas, Emily French Myers,
Mary Louise Furbershaw. Janet
Clapper, Kitty Hill, Louise McNutt,
Suzanne Slingluff, Caroline Waddon,
Jane Wyatt and Laura Belle Wyatt,
Mr.. Samuel O. Clark, Mr Barnet
Mover. jr.; Mr, Thad Brown, jr.;
Mr.. Edward Woolf, jr; Mr. Robert
Dempsey and Mr.. Dennis Pickens.
All of the boxes nave been sold but
there are many seats remaining on
the main floor and the National
Symphony Orchestra Association is
hoping that the patrons of the con-
cert will not buy tickets in place Of
their donation to the Community
War Fund, but in addition to their