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The President's Birthday Ball
1939
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THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALL
WALDORF-ASTORIA
JANUARY 30TH, 1939
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FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEW YORK FUND FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
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THE COMMITTEE
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MRS. JAMES ROOSEVELT, Honorary Chairman
MRS. SUMNER W. TAYLOR, Chairman
MRS. NEVIL MONROE HOPKINS, Vice-Chairman
Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss
Mrs. James G. Blaine
Madame Alma Clayburgh
Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin
Mrs. Henry Anderson Goman
Mrs. William Averell Harriman
Mrs. Edward M. House
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
Mrs. J. Couper Lord
Mrs. Henry Parish
Mrs. Edgerton Parsons
Mrs. Juan T. Trippe
Mrs. Harold S. Vaughan
Mrs. Thomas J. Watson
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JUNIOR COMMITTEE
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MISS RITA SINGSTAD, Chairman
Miss Mary Bennett
Miss Mary Benzell
Miss Dorothy Berkfield
Miss Ann Chalmers
Miss Jean Crump
Miss Cecile Dudley
Miss Sheila Emmet
Miss Eileen S. Gillespie
Miss Audrey Gray
Miss Milo Gray
Miss Anne Grosvenor
Miss Eileen Herrick
Miss Hilda Hutchinson
Miss Lucy Hutchinson
Miss Zaida M. Jones
Miss Helen Judge
Miss Helen Kiendl
Miss Rosamond Murray
Miss Theresa Murray
Miss Elizabeth O'Brien
Miss Esme O'Brien
Miss Barbara Orvis
Miss Helen Roosevelt
Miss Margaret Sanborn
Miss Theresa Schey
Miss Margery Schlesinger
Miss Mary W. VanderPoel
Miss Jane Watson
Miss Mary Zabriskie
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DEBUTANTE COMMITTEE
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MISS ELAINE FRUEAUFF, Chairman
Miss MARY AUGUSTA KINNAN
Miss ANNE L. WISNER Co-Chairmen
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Miss Ann Amory
Miss Eileen Balfe
Miss Willa Blake
Miss Amanda Cecil
Miss Patricia Delehanty
Miss Julia M. de Viry
Miss Diana Dilworth
Miss Rosamond Ely
Miss Barbara Erstein
Miss Mimi Francis
Miss Elizabeth Fuller
Miss Catherine Bruce Gamble
Miss Annette Gignoux
Miss Marjorie Sloane Handy
Miss Margaret Higgins
Miss Elizabeth Howe
Miss Elizabeth Irion
Miss Shirley Keeler
Miss Barbara King
Miss Virginia June Lewis
Miss Helen Macdonald
Miss Annetta McDowell
Miss Constance Mitler
Miss Daphne Nelson
Miss Lyda Palmer
Miss Ruth E. Robinson
Miss Joan Sawyer
Miss Constance Sherwin
Miss Dorothy Stafford
Miss Jean Stark
Miss Helen Stedman
Miss Carol Streuber
Miss Donna Walton
Miss Ann Whitmarsh
Miss Caryl Wood
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AUXILIARY COMMITTEE
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Miss MARY T. EDWARDS, Chairman
MRS. ROGER FARQUHAR, Co-Chairman
Mrs. Harold Bloch
Mrs. John Collins
Mrs. Gurnee Cummings
Mrs. J. Holmes Daly
Miss Christie Gillespie
Miss Julie Gillespie
Mrs. Robert Grimes
Mrs. Kenneth Slawson Hobbs
Miss Beatrice Joyce
Mrs. J. Arthur Leve
Mrs. Paul Listen
Miss Mariquitta MacManus
Miss Patricia MacManus
Mrs. William Merrill
Mrs. Jordan L. Mott
Mrs. George Pettengill
Mrs. E. Nielsen Streuber
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FLOOR COMMITTEE
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FRANK VANDERLIP, Chairman
Kichard Aldrich
Charles J. Aufferth, Jr.
John J. Bame
John M. Begg
Pierre Blanchet
Victor Bowman
Laurence F. Butler
Baron Adrian Cacace
Richard Candrit, Jr.
Thomas G. Chamberlain
James W. Duff
Hugh Gaffney
Theodore Gaillard
Henry A. Goman
Benjamin Grad
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
Dr. J. Ralph Jacoby
Raymond Jones
Lieutenant Commander Roland Kauffman
Rodney Kleinhans
Edwin Philips Kohl
Henry Theodore Leggett
A. Gunning Loomis
Walter Martin, Jr.
Arthur Menken
Paul Miller
Edward S. Morgan
Lawrence Morris
John C. Newington
James St. Lawrence O'Toole
Dale Parker
Saul E. Rogers
Martin L. Scott
Henry Eyland Simmons
L. Gordon Slutz
Rudolf G. Sonneborn
Ludlow P. Strong
Kelvin Vanderlip
R. Drace White
Frederick Williams
Walter J. Wolf
Dr. Shirley Wynne
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PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
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Miss ANITA VILLAR, Chairman
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PRIZE COMMITTEE
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Mrs. OSCAR E. STEVENS, Chairman
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ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE
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JAMES B. SAUTER, Chairman
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GREATER NEW YORK COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
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GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON, Chairman
CHARLES F. HORNER, Vice-Chairman
WM. WICKHAM HOFFMAN, Treasurer
DR. LEO MAYER, Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee
M. H. Aylesworth
Jules Bache
George W. Baker, Jr.
Ellsworth Bunker
Eddie Cantor
Barron G. Collier
Jack Dempsey
Thomas E. Dewey
Most Rev. Stephen J. Donohue
Eddie Dowling
Major Gen. Hugh A. Drum
David Dubinsky
Daniel E. Finn
Harold Franklin
Douglas Gibbons
Major Gen. Geo. S. Gibbs
Walter Gifford
Bernard F. Gimbel
John Golden
Albert Goldman
Max Gordon
W. Averell Harriman
George U. Harvey
Sidney Hillman
Raymond V. Ingersoll
Stanley N. Isaacs
Dr. S. D. Kramer
Mrs. Isaac Kubie
Arthur Kudner
Hon. F. H. LaGuardia
Gov. Herbert H. Lehman
Isaac Liberman
Mrs. Johanna M. Lindlof
Clare Brokaw Luce
James J. Lyons
James F. Marshall
Alfred J. McCosker
Edward F. McGrady
George Meany
Robert Moses
Benjamin Namm
Mrs. Hortense M. Odlum
William S. Paley
Joseph A. Palma
Sol A. Rosenblatt
David Sarnoff
Joseph M. Schenck
Michael Schoenfeld
Gerard Swope
Herbert Bayard Swope
Walter C. Teagle
Lowell Thomas
Dorothy Thompson
Sidney J. Weinberg
Arthur D. Whiteside
Dr. Stephen S. Wise
Admiral Clark H. Woodward
Owen D. Young
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WOMEN'S DIVISION
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MRS. DOUGLAS GIBBONS, Honorary Chairman
MRS. KELVIN C. VANDERLIP, Chairman
MRS. SUMNER W. TAYLOR, Chairman Birthday Ball
MARGARET MABON, Chairman Junior Deb Committee
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE FOR THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFANTILE PARALYSIS
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KEITH Morgan, Chairman
JOSEPH M. SCHENCK, Vice-Chairman
James S. Adams
George E. Allen
George W. Baker, Jr.
Gene Buck
Eddie Cantor
William L. Clayton
Barron G. Collier
Joseph V. Connolly
Harvey Couch
Walter J. Cummings
Marshall Field
Fred J. Fisher
Robert V. Fleming
Edsel B. Ford
Gen. George S. Gibbs
William Green
W. Averell Harriman
Ralph Hitz
William F. Humphrey
Arthur Kudner
Ed. Kuykendall
Abner E. Larned
Lenox R. Lohr
John R. Macomber
Alfred J. McCosker
Keith McHugh
Carroll B. Merriam
Neville Miller
J. F. T. O'Connor
William S. Paley
John J. Pelley
David Sarnoff
Nicholas M. Schenck
Juan T. Trippe
R. B. White
S. Clay Williams
Clarence Woolley
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PATRONS AND PATRONESSES
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Mrs. Edward Hutchinson Robbins, Chairman
Mrs. A. Gunning Loomis, Co-Chairman
Mrs. Frederick B. Adams
Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ashforth
Mrs. Vincent Astor
Mrs. Gordon Auchinloss
Mr. John Bame
Mrs. John F. Berwind
Mrs. James G. Blaine
Mrs. A. Minford Bond
Duchesse Renee D'Andria Carafa
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Chandler Christie
Madame Alma Clayburgh
Honorable Mr. Martin Conboy
Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin
Mr. William Nelson Cromwell
Miss Juliana Cutting
Miss Colette d'Arvile
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Drexel
Judge and Mrs. Edward Ridley Finch
Mr. Paul Fleer
Mrs. Jamesine M. Franklin
Mrs. Henry Anderson Goman
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart G. Gibboney
Mr. Walter Gubelmann
Mrs. John Henry Hammond
Major General James G. Harbord
Mrs. William Averell Harriman
Major General and Mrs. William N. Haskell
Mr. and Mrs. John G. Hegeman
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Helfenstein
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hutchinson
Mr. Morion D. Hutzler
Prince and Princess Irbain Khan Kaplanoff
Mr. and Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wellington Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Kinnan
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Phillips Kohl
Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
Mr. Henry Theodore Leggett
Governor and Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman
Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur Leve
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Samter Levy
Mrs. Robert R. Livingston
Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Loomis
Mrs. J. Couper Lord
Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart MacNamara
Mr. and Mrs. Norbert A. McKenna
Mrs. Clarence Millhiser
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Mitler
Mrs. Alvar Moller
Major Benjamin H. Namm
Princess Obolensky
Mrs. Hortense M. Odlum
Mr. and Mrs. Woodson Oglesby
Mr. Benjamin O'Shea
Mrs. Henry Parish
Mrs. Edgerton Parsons
Mrs. Lee Pattison
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powers
Mr. Norman Price
Mr. W. S. S. Rodgers
Mrs. Radcliffe Romeyn
Mrs. Moritz Rosenthal
Mr. Walter Russell
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee
Mrs. Robert Schey
Mr. and Mrs. William Marston Seabury
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Singstad
Mr. and Mrs. L. Gordon Slutz
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard B. Smith
Mrs. Edwards Spencer
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer
Mr. Percy S. Straus
Mrs. T. Raymond St. John
Mr. and Mrs. Juan T. Trippe
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Mrs. Harold S. Vaughan
Mrs. Donald C. Walton
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Watson
James D. Webb
Baron and Baroness Gregers Wedell-Wedellsborg
Mr. and Mrs. Kennard Wedgewood
Mr. and Mrs. Grover A. Whalen
Mrs. Charles S. Whitman
Mrs. Howard Ogden Wood, Jr.
Mrs. Orater Charles Woodward
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Clark H. Woodward
Mr. and Mrs. Moreau Yeomans
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BOX HOLDERS
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GROUND FLOOR
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Baron Collier
Mrs. J. Cheever Cowdin
Mrs. Louis Drexel
Miss Consuelo Eyre
Lenox R. Lohr
Alfred McCosker
Mrs. Clarence Millhiser
Thomas E. Murray
Frank C. Paige
William S. Paley
Leo Sacks
James Sauter
Walter Teagle
Commissioner D. Walker Wear
R. B. White
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FIRST TIER
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Mrs. Frederick B. AdamS
Luigi Antonini
Bernard M. Baruch
Honorable Martin Conboy
Committee for the Ball
David Dubinsky
Charles Engelhard
Judge Edward Ridley Finch
Mrs. John Hegeman
Sidney Hillman
General Hugh S. Johnson
Mrs. Walter Graeme Ladd
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
Vincent Libell
Clarence H. Low
Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce
Keith Morgan
Basil O'Connor
Mrs. Hortense Odlum
Benjamin O'Shea
W. S. S. Rodgers
Mrs. James Roosevelt
Mrs. Moritz Rosenthal
Mrs. Edwards Spencer
Juan Trippe
Thomas J. Watson
Earle Webb
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SECOND TIER
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Elizabeth Arden
R. A. Corroon
William Nelson Cromwell
Colonel Joseph M. Hartfield
Miss E. Frederica Millet
Keith Morgan
Frank C. Paige
Frank A. Vanderlip
William J. Wallace
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PROGRAM
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SIXTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY
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Events of the Evening
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From 9:00 P. M. on ... CONTINUOUS DANCING AND ENTERTAINMENT IN:
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THE ORLEANS CAFE . . . Mr. Nat Nazarro, director of entertainment. Arvis Andrews, Berry Brothers, Jean Starr, Chuck and Chuckles, and Jigsaw Jackson.
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LITTLE OLD NEW YORK . . . Mr. George Bennett and Mr. Bobby Randall, directors of entertainment. Ruth and Victor de Meranville, Paul Bartels, Crystal Clarkson, and The Colstons. Special divertissement by the Ziegfeld Girls Club -- Miss Diane and Anita Rice Yorks.
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GOLDEN WEST ROOM . . . Mr. Al Rogers, director -- Mark Plant and Tom Swift, Western entertainment throughout the evening.
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SWING CABARET . . . Mr. Fred Le Quorne, director, and his Jitterbugs.
Mr. Allen Corelli in charge of all entertainment in these rooms.
A Ben Nelson orchestra for dancing in each room.
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GRAND BALLROOM -- Musical program by Meyer Davis and his orchestra
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ARRIVAL OF MRS. JAMES ROOSEVELT.
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MILITARY PAGEANT:
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16th Infantry Regimental Band from Fort Jay.
16th Infantry Colors and Color Guard of the Second Army Corps.
Colors and Color Guard from the Third Naval District.
Detail of men from Third Naval District.
Colors and Color Guard from the Seventh Regiment, N. Y. N. G.
Group of nurses from the American Red Cross, New York Chapter
Massing of the Colors.
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PRESENTATION OF THE BIRTHDAY CAKE
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STAR-SPANGLED BANNER -- Miss Lucy Monroe
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UNVEILING OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S OFFICIAL BUST by Mayor LaGuardia
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On the Air at 11:15 P.M.
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BASIL O'CONNOR -- President of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis
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GENERAL HUGH S. JOHNSON -- Chairman, Greater New York Committee
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ADDRESS
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STARS OF THEATRE, RADIO AND SCREEN
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Show under the direction of MR. JAMES E. SAUTER
Master of Ceremonies, WALTER O'KEEFE
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Phil Baker
John Barrymore
Ben Bernie
Rosemarie Brancato
Kitty Carlisle
Norman Cordon
Helen Claire
Gladys Cooper
Eddie Dowling
Mary Eastman
Morton Downey
Florence Eldridge
Anne Francine
Lillian Gish
Walter Huston
Elsie Janis
Fredric March
Giovanni Martinelli
Raymond Massey
James Melton
Ray Middleton
Victor Moore
Robert Morley
Julia Peters
Professor Quiz
Doris Rhodes
Ezra Stone
Vivienne Segal
Tamara
Benay Venuta
Clifton Webb
Orson Welles
Estelle Winwood
Barry Wood
Nan Wynn
Vera Zorina
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Dancing in the Grand Ballroom -- MEYER DAVIS and his orchestra
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Guest Orchestras: JOHNNY GREEN, SAMMY KAYE, HORACE HEIDT, GLEN GRAY and the RAYMOND SCOTT QUINTET
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All Entertainment Approved by the Theatre Authority, Inc.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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General Hugh S. Johnson, Chairman of the Greater New York Committee, and Mrs. Sumner W. Taylor, Chairman of the President's Birthday Ball. and her committee wish to express their great appreciation for the valuable assistance and generosity of all those who have contributed to the success of the Ball, and in particular to:
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MAJOR GENERAL HUGH A. DRUM, U.S.A., Commanding Second Army Corps; REAR ADMIRAL CLARK H. WOODWARD, Commanding Third Naval District; MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM N. HASKELL, Commanding N. Y. N. G., and MAJOR GENERAL JAMES G. HARBORD, retired, for their cooperation in the military pageant.
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MRS. WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST for her valuable assistance and kind cooperation.
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Miss ANITA VILLAR for the publicity for the Ball and her invaluable assistance to Mrs. Taylor and her committee.
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MR. A. GUNNING LOOMIS for the artistic decorations in the informal cabarets and the main ballroom.
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MR. WALTER RUSSELL for the beautifully sculptured bust of President Roosevelt which he has so generously loaned for this premiere showing.
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MR. NORMAN PRICE for the original and inspiring design used for the cover of this program.
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MR. PHILIP N. SCHUYLER, publicity director of the Greater New York Committee for the splendid press relations.
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MR. G. E. ORLEY for his untiring energy and great assistance.
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MR. JAMES E. SAUTER for arranging the entertainment.
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MR. ALLEN CORELLI for assistance in the theatre.
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MR. BEN BOYER for his kind cooperation in the entertainment.
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STARS of the stage, screen and radio as released through the courtesy of THEATRE AUTHORITY, INC.
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THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY.
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THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM, INC.
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MUTUAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM.
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GREATER NEW YORK RADIO STATIONS: WABC, WBNX, WEAF, WEVD, WFAB, WHN, WINS, WJZ, YMCA, WNYC, WOR, WOV, WLTH, WNEW, WQXR, WARD, WBBC, WCNN, WVFW, WWRL.
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ORCHESTRAS -- to the leaders and members of the orchestras contributing to the Ball, and to the MUSICIANS UNION LOCAL No. 802:
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Meyer Davis and his orchestra
Horace Heidt Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
Sammy Kaye
Johnny Green
Raymond Scott Quinlet
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THE PRESS, newspaper publishers, reporters and photographers.
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AJELLO BROTHERS for the birthday candles.
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THE STAFF of the Birthday Ball headquarters.
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SALVADOR NELSON, who produced this program.
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MRS. MORITZ ROSENTHAL for her kind cooperation.
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Miss MARY T. EDWARDS for contributing so much of her time and help.
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MRS. OSCAR STEVENS for her great help.
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THE ZIEGFELD GIRLS CLUB for the generous time and help they have given.
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MRS. ALVAR MOLLER for cooperation.
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MR. JOHN J. BAME for cooperation.
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THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA.
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MR. J. P. HOENIG of the Waldorf-Astoria for cooperation.
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THE WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL.
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Miss NAOMI POST, who donated a case of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne as a door prize.
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DE REVUELTA DANCE STUDIOS for their generous donation of a course of dancing lessons as a prize to the debutante selling the most tickets to the Ball.
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ELIZABETH ARDEN, for her kind donation of Cyclamen Perfume as a door prize.
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The shops that have generously responded by making special contributions:
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BONWIT TELLER
MARY CHESS
LENTHERIC
GERMAINE MONTEIL
PRIMROSE HOUSE
SAKS-FIFTH-AVENUE
LORD & TAYLOR
BLOOMINGDALE'S
BERGDORF GOODMAN
ARNOLD CONSTABLE
HELENA RUBINSTEIN
PRINCE MATCHEBELLI
ANGELA VERONA
LE BAS HOSIERY
RENEE THORNTON
PEGGY SAGE
DOROTHY GRAY
JAY THORPE
GIMBEL'S
MACY'S
MACWISE SHOP
IRENE HAYES
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For cooperation in the sale of tickets, the following:
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LEBLANG GRAY
McBRIDE TICKET AGENCY
NEWMAN TICKET AGENCY
POSTAL TELEGRAPH OFFICES throughout New York City
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