Formation of a committee of outstanding communal leaders to handle arrangements for the charity ball of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, revived after a lapse of twenty-five years, was announced yesterday. The ball will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria April 6.
Jesse Baar, chairman, will be assisted by Irwin Steingut, Speaker of the Assembly; David Shapiro, publisher of The Day; Simon F. Rothschild, chairman of the board of the Abraham and Straus department store; Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, County Judge Algeron I. Nova and Municipal Court Justice Murray Hearn.
Others on the committee include Nathaniel H. Levi, a past president of the orphanage; Moses B. Schmidt, president of Union Temple; Nathaniel H. Lyons, president of the Eighth Avenue Temple, and Aaron L. Jacoby, Kings County Register
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