Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-10-27
BY BETTY BEALE
Star Staff Writer

flagrant armlng OF Cuba ana
our resultant blockade have
on Washington's reception
of the Leningrad Symphony
and the Bolshoi BalletP
The answer thus far seems
to be: None.
,Impresario Patrick Hayes
said yesterday, There has
been no discernible effect at
all. We are selling tickets at
the same daily rate as be-
fore the recent unpleasant
ness" He expects the Bolshoi
to have capacity audiences
throughout the week it is
here.
A State DEPARTING nt
spokesman said, 1.-THE Lenin-
grad Symphony sales outside
of Washington have been af-
fected only to the extent the
crisis has affected other sales
everywhere"
And as for the New York
City Ballet and the Robert
Shaw Chorale currently tour
ing Russia, They have been
greeted with even more en-
thusiasm and cordially since
the Presidents speech than
before" he said.
He puts that down to two
things. Part of it is that
they are anxious for these
cultural exchanges to con-
tinue because it indicates
that things are not so bad
between our countries"
And part Of it, he thinks,
is that the Russian people
really like Americans, that
the propaganda they have
been fed has not been a sue
cess in convincing them that
we are a warlike peope. Since
they cannot say these things
in their society, they can in
dictate their friendliness for
our people by their response
to our performers.
When Roberta Peters sang
over there 500 people fol-
lowed her enthusiastically
from the hall to the railroad
station.
The Leningrad Symphony,
which arrived in Washington
yesterday afternoon, played
at Rutgers University earlier
this week to q packed house
and received an ovation. 1t
remains to be seen how they
will be received in Washing
ton tomorrow.
BY the time the BolShoi
stages its premiere here on
November ia benefit for
the Washington Ballet Guild
there's no telling what will
have happened to American
Russian relations,
Il -
SPEAKING OF CULTURE,
the Board of Trade will give
a salute to the National Gull
tural Center luncheon at the
/, Mayflower on November 26
in cooperation with 80 or 40
cultural institutions in Wash
ington.
Two awards will be given
at the time-one to archi-
tect Edward Durell Stone,
who has given enormously of
his time to the project even
to doing a substantial amount
of money raising, and the
other to Corrin Strong, first
chairman of the center. He
it was who kept it alive in
its struggling EN- bryonic
stages and who has made
the biggest contribution to it
way up in the six-figure cate
CORY.
MRS. HUGH DUDLEY
AUCHINCLOSS, as the Wash
ington International Horse
Show announcer called her
name, presente d the gold
Presidents cup to 21-year-
old Kathy Kusner last night
at the end of the interna-
tional jumping competition.
The trim, pretty, superb
equestrienne from Arlington,
who had a perfect score in
the final run-off, dismounted
from her aptly named horse,
Unusual, to receive the cup
and bouquet of Am eric a n
Beauty roses.
Then she remounted, and
holding her riding crop in a
vertical position in salute to
the "Star Spangled Banner"
she sat with still erectness
while her spirited horse fair
ly danced under her during
the National Anthem.
Charles Horsky, president
Of the horse show, came to
the Presidents box to escort
the First Lady's mother into
the ring. Wearing a black
velvet coat with white mink