The women’s division of the Brooklyn Federation of Charities will hold a fourth annual luncheon Wednesday, April 11, at the St. George. Mayor F. H. LaGuardia will be guest speaker. The division seeks to raise its quota of $15,000 in the twenty-fifth anniversary campaign of the Federation. An attendance of 1,000 persons at $10 a reservation is expected, according to the report of Magistrate Jeanette G. Brill, chairman of the arrangements committee.
Other speakers will include Supreme Court Justice Mitchell May, Federation president; Presiding Justice Edward Lazansky of the Appellate Division; County Judge Algeron I Nova. campaign chairman, and Dr. Joseph Schwartz, executive director of the Federation.
A musical program, arranged by Max Abelman, will feature Pasquale Amato, Santa Bionda, Greek Evans, Henrietta Wakefield, Giuseppe Bamboschek, Frank Parker and Betty Barthell. Rabbis Isaac Landman and Harry Weiss will deliver the invocation and benediction.
Among the invited guests are Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman, Mrs. LaGuardia, Mrs. David E. Goldfarb, Magistrate Anna Moskowitz Kross, Helen Menken, Faith Baldwin and Irving P. Kartell, president of Junior Federation.
Cooperating are the Women’s Auxiliary, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, First Hebrew Day Nursery and Neighborhood House, Women’s Auxiliary, Beth Moses Hospital, the Brooklyn Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Women’s Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The committee includes Mrs. Martin Lippman, Mrs. Clarence G. Bachrach, Mrs. Mortimer Brenner, Mrs. Henry Broder, Mrs. Nathan L. Goldstein, Mrs. Charles Jaffa, Mrs. Harry Schlein, Mrs. Harry Spitzer, and Mrs. Meier Steinbrink.
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