Evening star., 1943-09-05
IA Hollywood Stars
To Start Bond Drive
Trip Here Wednesday

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Movie stars who are to tour Is
cities in support of the Third War
Loan drive will open their nation
wide jaunt in Washington.
Taking part in a broadcast or per-
sonal appearance here Wednesday
will be Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball,
James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland.
Judy Garland, Greer Carson, Kath-
ryn Grayson. Betty Hutton, Harpo
Marx, assisted by Dick Powell,
Mickey Rooney, Walter Pidgeon,
Muriel Goodspeed and Kay Kyser
and his band.
The movie celebrities will parade
Wednesday at noon through down.
town Washington to the Army show
grounds on the Washington Monu-
rnent. They will leave in group
from Sixteenth and K streets NV,
AS the September 9 opening of
the SIS ZOO, 100000 bond drive nears
Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen-
thau termed the Hollywood bond
cavalcade" the most "glamorous
statesmen IN hIIleJlCd.
Starlets in Caravan.
Four Hollywood starlets augment
ing the senior performers will be
Rosemary La Planche, Doris Mer-
rick. Dolores Moran and Marjorie
Stewart.
Other details of the stars ac-
tivities in Washington, time of their
arrival at Union Station and other
facts, will be announced tomorrow.
Carter T. Barron and John j.
Payette. Washington representatives
of the War Activities Committee of
the motion picture industry, were
to meet with Hollywood representa-
'tives today and arrange the stars
program.
The movie group, leaving Holly
wood today, will rehearse on the
train for the broadcast here
Wednesday night and for personal
appearances as the train carries
them on a compact itinerary, as
follows:
Washington, September 8; Phila-
delphia, g; Boston, 10; New York,
IL; Pittsburgh, IL; Detroit, 13;
Cleveland, ID; Cincinnati, Is; Chi
cago, is: Minneapolis, II; st. Louis,
IS, New Orleans. 10; Dallas, 20;
San Francisco, %, and Los Angeles,
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Quiz Kids Are Coming.
Meanwhile, the District War FL
nance Committee, through Chair
man John A. Reilly, announced yes
terday that radios smartest chill
dren, the Quiz Kids, will don their
thinking caps here Sunday, Sep
tenber 10, to help Uncle Sam in
the national drive and stimulate
the Districts campaign to raise
$4,000, 900.
Mr.. Reilly said the Kids with
the third -dimensional" mental ap-
paratus will stage their regular 7::30
Blue Network broadcast before an
audience of War bond purchasers
at Constitution Hall, which is being
donated by the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
The Quiz Kids are being brought
to Washington through the spon-
.sorship of 10 leading local mer-
chants under auspices of the Dis
trict War Finance Committee. The
i3,844 available seats have been
scaled to accommodate purchasers
of 800 in War bonds. Prices
range from $4,000 bonds down, to
S25 bonds, with about three -fourtfis
of the seats available to purchasers
OF bonds of 500 or less. @
Exchange Tickets Ready.
Exchange tickets for the broad
cast can be secured by buying War
bonds at the War bond booths of
the following 10 stores, who are
Jointly sponsoring the show: Wood
ward 6s Lothrop, The Hecht Co, s.
Kann Sons Co., Jelleff's, Golden
berg's, Lansburgh & Bro, the Palais
Royal, Julius Garfinckel & Co..
Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Raleigh
Haberdasher. Tickets also may be
obtained at the War bond windows
of Washington's Is downtown banks.
Seating tickets are given for ex-
change tickets at Cappels Concert
Bureau in Billiards., 1910 G street
NV.
The Quiz Kids are Margaret Mer
.Yfck, Is; Richard Williams, 13: Har-
ivey Fischman, IL, and Rutf1ie
.Duskin, 8. Jolly Joe Kelly will be
master of ceremonies. The fifth
Quiz Kid is yet to be announced,
there being possibility that local
child will be selected.
/ Up at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing they are getting
100000 bonds ready for the drive.
s(They've already started working
ion S25 bond that will be Just half
the size of the ones you've been put
ting away. These will save not only
paper, but considerable money, be-
ssides) Twelve hundred workers are
busy making the bonds, for which
/ 500 tons of paper are required.
Since Pearl Harbor 5000, 900 War
bonds have been printed.
Falling in line with the drive the
international Executive Board of
the American Federation of Mu-
sicians has designated September 9
as American Federation of Mu-
'sician's Day" in connection with the
Third War Bond Drive, James G.
'Petrillo, president, announced.
The board has authorized the
purchase by the federation of $780,
900 in third War loan bonds, which
brings to S350,000 War bonds pur-
chased by the organization.
Band leaders have been asked to
advertise the bond drive from the
bandstand on September 8.