Thomas Mann, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, will be feted at a testimonial dinner in honor of his fifty-ninth birthday on June 6 at the Plaza Hotel, Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
The diner committee includes Henry Seidel Canby, honorary chairman; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Governor Wilbur Cross of Connecticut, Walter Damrosch, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Thomas W. Lamont, Sinclair Lewis, Christopher Morley, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Dorothy Thompson, Lillian Wald, Felix Warburg, Owen D. Young and Emma Mills.
Willa Cather, B. W. Huebsch, Frederick, P. Keppel, Alfred A. Knopf, Blanche W. Knopf, Henry Goddard Leach, Mrs. William Brown Meloney, Carl Pforzheimer, Dr. A. W. S. Rosenbach, Mrs. James Rosenberg, Harry Scherman, William Allen White and Louis Wiley are other members of the dinner committee.
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