The Women's National Press Club annual dinner and stunt party
Contributors: Conniff, Frank, 1914-1971, associated name; Women's National Press Club (U.S.); Statler Hotel (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1949
Language: eng
Other titles: Washington whodunit
Description: The Women's National Press Club annual dinner and stunt party, program, dinner music: United States Marine Band Orchestra, conducted by Major William F. Santelmann, welcome: Dorothy E. Wiliams, president, Women's National Pres Club, presentation of awards to women of achievement, Washington Whodunit.
Notes: Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., Saturday, May 14, 1949.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Doris Fleeson, Margaret Kernodle, Lora Kelly, Lillian Porter Say, Elizabeth Pitt, Mary Burnham, Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Ruth Crane, Margaret Davis, Isabelle Shelton, Elizabeth Churchill, Betty Miles, Doris Fleeson, May Craig, Mary Spargo, Lucrece H. Beale, Isabelle Shelton, Julia A. Bonwit, Dorothea J. Lewis, Hope Ridings Miller, Hazel Markel, Patricia O'Malley Strickland, Jerry Askwith, Betty Beale, Martha Kearney, Alice Frein Johnson, Ruth Montgomery, Sarah McClendon, Mary Spargo, Mary Pauline Perry, Frieda Wyandt Everett, Lily Lykes Shepard, Anne F. Carter, Olga Anna Jones, Marguerite Gilstrap, Jessie Stearns, Gladys Moon Jones, off the record: The President of the United States [Harry S. Truman].

Achievement Awards: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "Woman of the Year" award for achievement in Human Rights, Mrs. Anna Mary Robertson Moses, Art, Miss Madeleine Carroll, Theater, Miss Mary Jane Ward, mental health, Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee, government, Mrs. Marjorie Child Husted, business.

LC copy accompanied by clipping of column "East Side, West Side" by Frank Conniff "Ladies of the Press Give a Party", newspaper unidentified.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).