Pickens Sisters, George Sidney, Major Edward Bowes, Mark Hellinger, Eddie Dowling, Jimmy Savo, Kate Smith, Mcore and Revel, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Paul Yawitz, Ed Sullivan, Louis Sobol, Nick Lucas, Gertrude Niesen, Vera Van, Tito Guizar, George Givot, Stuart Erwin, June Collyer, Nanette Guilford, Walter Hampden, Everett Marshall, Herman Timberg and son, Pat Rooney and sou, and others. The Radio City ballet, the Capitol Theatre ballet, the Cotton Club Revue, with Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway and the Mills Brothers, and the Casino de Paree show are also on the program.
The box holders for tonight’s show include:
Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Roger W. Straus, Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Colonel Robert Guggenheim, Mrs. L. V. Weil, Miss Louise B. Goldsmith, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tillis, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jelenko, Mrs. D. K. Weiskopf, Mrs. Sol M. Stroock, Mrs. Paul Klingenstein, Mrs. Jos. Klingenstein, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gerngross, Mrs. Henry Ittlsson, Mrs. Jerome Lewine, Mrs. Henry L. Moses, Mrs. Hugh Grant Strauss, Mrs. L. L. Strauss, Mrs. Lester Hofheimer, Mrs. J. W. Schwab, Mrs. Arthur Lehman, Mrs. J. J. Wyle, Mrs. S. Seligman, Mrs. Clarence Low, Mrs. Herbert Lehman, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kohnstamm, Mrs. Joseph M. Proskauer, Mrs. Isaac Kubie, Mrs. Paul Baerwald, Mrs. Julian W. Mack, Mrs. Philip Vogelman, Mrs. Abram I. Elkus, Mrs. Allie Freed, Mrs. Harry L. Guinzberg, Mrs. A. Van Raalte, Judge Mitchell May, Congressman Theodore Peyser, Mrs. Sidney Borg, Mr. and Mrs. John Loeb, Mrs. H. Guinzberg.
COMMITTEE HEADS
The program is under the direction of Louis K. Sidney, chairman; Boris Morros and Leon Leonidoff, associates. Nathan Burkan is chairman of the amusement division. Other officers of the committee are:
Associate chairman, A. J. Kobler; vice-chairmen, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Jack Cohn, Felix F. Feist, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris, George Jessel, Al Jolson, Sam Katz, William Klein, Abe Lastfogel, Jack Pearl, Saul E. Rogers, Sigmund Romberg and Herman Shumlin; secretary, Dave Ferguson; director of music, Gene Buck; technical director, Arthur Voegtlin; Mrs. Max Bernheim, Edward Bowes, Gus Edwards, Mrs. C. S. Guggenheimer, Harry Hershfeld, Nick Kenny, Max Rabinoff, Z. H. Rubinstein, Walter Winchell, A. Baron, secretary; chairman, publication committee, Ira A. Hirschmann; chairman, executive committee, Louis Nizer; chairman, business men’s committee, G. A. Lowenstein; comptroller, Simon Loeb; executive director, Samuel Blitz.
Tonight’s show is part of the activities of the United Jewish Appeal for German Jewish relief, which is headed in New York City by Nathan Straus Jr., I. Edwin Goldwasser and Ira M. Younker as co-chairmen. Proceeds will go entirely to the United Jewish Appeal. The Stadium was contributed by Col. Jacob Ruppert.
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