More than a thousand persons are expected at the fifth annual dinner of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society of Denver, Colorado, to be held at the Astor Hotel Sunday, March 18. Scores of entertainers and a number of well known speakers will attend.
The society will hold its thirteenth annual convention at the Astor on March 17, 18 and 19.
Delegates from all over the country are expected. The following officers and directors will arrive here from Denver:
Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, president; Dr. Lewis I. Miller, secretary; Dr. H. Schwatt, superintendent and medical director; H. H. Frumess, Edward Neusteter, A. A. McVittie, directors.
The following speakers will address the sessions: Dr. Philip Hillkowitz, Dr. Israel Goldstein, of Temple Bnai Jeshurun; Rev. Dr. David De Sola Pool, of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue; Maurice P. Davidson, Judge William M. Lewis, of Philadelphia.
Tickets for the dinner will be sold at $100 per couple.
In its Neusteter Industrial Building patients are taught occupations better suited to their physical conditions so that they may be self-supporting upon discharge from the Sanatorium. Since its inception about 7,000 patients have been treated.
Entertainers at the dinner will include Eddie Cantor, Rudy Vallee, Jack Benny, George Jessel, Paul Whiteman, Jack Pearl, Joe Penner, Ed Wynn, Julius Tannen, Patsy Flick, Kate Smith, Abe Lyman, The Southernaires George Olsen, Ethel Shutta, Burns and Allen, Baby Rose Marie, Vincent Lopez, Tess Gardella, Mary Small, Shirley Howard, Abner Silver, Vivien Ruth, Billy Glason, Jeannie Lang, Phil Harris, The Eton Boys, Frank Parker, Tony Wons, The Three X Sisters, Anthony Frome, Ethel Waters, Tito Guizar, Bert Hirsch, Uncle Don, John B. Kennedy, Roxy, Theo Karle, Major Edward Bowes, Fray and Braggiotti, Harry Hershfield, Crumit and Sanderson, Mary McCoy, Ray Heatherton, Jack Denny, Claude Hopkins, Fess Williams, Luis Russel, Al Shayne, Jerry Baker, The Don Hall Trio, The Landt Trio and White, Jack Fulton, Gertrude Nissen, Gertrude Berg, writer and mother of The Rise of the Goldbergs, Harry Rose, Vera Van, Irving Kaufman, Ann Lester, Teddy “Blubber” Bergman, Harry Salter’s Campus Choir, Phil Spitalny, Charles Carlile, Freddy Martin and orchestra, Teddy Black and orchestra, Isham Jones, Edith Murray, Big Freddy Miller, Anthony Trini, Al Jolson, Morton Downey.
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