CULTURAL DINNER SET FOR MAY 25 EVENT IS A 'FIRST' FOR NATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER

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CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
turai Dinner Set for May 25
Event Is a 'First' for National Cult?ural Center
-BETTY BEALE
8ta ft Writer
.Lu t 1C most impo
tent cuitural dinner ever held
ii Washington Will take place
et the ietatler on May 25.
To be followed,: by "An
NVr'l litk: With the ,
Jog Aru-; " the brilliant affair
will be Ji. first formal gathering held by the ,ntlatifil
cultural Center which sent
out the invitations this week
end.
.rverybody who's anybody
the cultural life of the
4.!;ipital will be there in
eeteon or in spirit. Obviously
lese people who have only
talking about culture for
y!rS Can't afford to be
hent, and those who are
Lioty interested are not likely
nis the first opportunitY
ra hy behind the city's
e,,,?etesi artistic undertaking.
ICE PRESIDENT NIXON
who :hopes to attend, has
illriady donated $2,000 to the
4.-nitural center, this writer
discovered. Considering
is not, a man of great
-sith and he is running for
sident thisl,ydat, this is
Lile more gaipiessive.
;Hr Vieee,Pitesident can
ir $2 OM=
Iwill
hr ? hoed
Ii previ
'great center
the neigh-
million and
shington with
ms ..of rivalling the
I
1L11VRJ ea pitals -of the world,
the list of
who can give
more. Ls easily
151.flh21 print
President Eisenhower has
put in writing his belief m
the non-fund raising dinner
which is to acquaint the peo-
ple of Washington with the
Wins and purposes of the
center. He wrote to Dinner
Chairman Edward Burling
last week of the "need for
more adequate facilities in
the National Capital for the
presentation of the perform-
ing arts. Th way is now open
to meet this need in a man-
ner ,that will do credit to the
M4takartel the Nation," said
Describing the Cultural
Center as belonging to the
entire Country,' he further
noted,. '-the challenge of its
aveloPfhtitA Oars ,,,each of
*aka no1e opportunity to add
to the 'aesthetic and spiritual
fabric of America."
The dinner, headed by Mr.
Rurl-in Mrs. Neill Phillips
a., Blair Childs, is
b mired by such Capi-
r. and Mrs. Robert
liss, the David
Brutes, the Clark Cliffords,
Bisho s of Washington and
us Dun, the Clifford
Fol Arthur Gardners,
the Garretts": Gen.
and flit 'Alfred Gruenther,
Mr. ifter.*Mrs. Samuel H.
Kauffmann, Mr. arid Mrs.
Milton king, the H. Gates
Lloyds, Atomic Engify COrn-
missioner and Mrs. Sohn Mc-
Cone. Federal Reserve Chair-
man and Mrs. William Mc-
Chesney Martin. Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert May. Mr. and, Mee.
11,111 NH' C1.1.1?
ital Committee Chairman and
. Mrs. Philip Talbot, the John
, Walkers, I he Stanley Wood--
wards and District Commis-
sioners McLaughlin, Karrick
a.nd 'Welling and their wives.
A VOTED AMERICAN AC-
TRESS IvJi emcee the per
formance after dinner that,
win include internationally
famed seers of the Metro-.
politan Opera, the ballet, and
the. contort stage. Their
names will be released later.,
, Incidentally, to establish a
strong and valid case
throughont the country for
a nationally supported cen-
ter as opposed to a local
project, the center's fund-
raising fIrm, George A.
Brakely Co. of New York
(which le headed by Wash-
ington-'n G. A. B., jr.)
now is ge, Ong in touch with
the 100 1op thinkers in the
country m the performing
arts field . . For your in-
formatior the list of 100
runs the eamut from literary
genius CB el Sandburg to the-
atrical preducer Billy Rose.
They u .11 ask these people
to state the case for the coun-
try?why performing arts
are imputant to a nation,
how they are helpful to the
indivithIJ and what impact
they hat on civilization.
* * *
PRESD)ENT EISENHOW-
ER probaely will take a good
luck chal m to Russia with
him, It asn't his idea, but
it seems is good a place as
SW' to one on hand.
st ;.,ad,) was
in the Bartz and King jewelry
shop some ?weeks ago, Mr.
King said he wanted to
present the Chief Executive
with a good luck piece ? a
gold horseshoe adorned with
a black star sapphire. Mrs.
Eisenhower being a woman
and therefore practical, said,
"Why not wait until we go to
Russia? That's when we'll
need it."
With the Russian trip ap-
proaching, the little gift has
been delivered to the White
House and a letter of thanks
has come back. The President
expressed his appreciation for
such a handsome omen of
good luck, especially, he said,
as he enters the last difficult
months of his administration.
The horseshoe may be
carried by the President as a
loose pocket piece, or, since
it has a little gold loop at
one end, it may be attached
to a ' key ring or a watch
chain.... There's also a good
chance that it will end up
on Mrs. Eisenhower's charm
bracelet.
* * * *
ADLAI STEVENSON'S
South American comments
are wending their way back
through, the embassies of the
countries he visited. A Colom-
bian diplomat says that
while he was in his country
someone asked him, "Do you
think you were defeated be-
cause you are? a, pure intel-
lectual?"
Replied (iov. Stevensm,
-I'm not sure I am seen al
intellectual, but people thinii
I am because 1 m bald-
lwaded,'
Someone else asked him
what he thought of Castro,
"I think he needs more
sleep." was Adlai's terse
comment. The Latinos, who
air familiar with Castro's
long and late harangues on
the air, cimckled with delight.
*
RI;FFIE IVES, Mr. Steven-
son's sister, was sporting the
most elegant and original
Democratic donkey pin at
the .iuncheon here last Tues-
day that this writer has ever
She had it made by
jeweler Serafim in Florence
iind it has the look of' a
Renaissance piece. Its a gold
donkey's head with waving
mane and a narrow diamond
and platinum collar with a
hanging star of same.
The reason, by the way,
that the Augusto Rossos gave
their big, beautiful party at
the 1925 F Street Club the
other night for Mr. and Mrs..
Ives was a Florentine eve-
ning gown. . , While over
there last summer Buffie fiql
in love with a gray chitimi,
Grecian-draped model at the
house of Cala bri, but she
couldn't decide if she ehouid
spend that much money tor
a dress she would hardly ever
wear 1 ha.ve no use for
In Southern Pines," she told
Prances Rosso, who spends
hcr SUITIMC.I'S # t her villa H
eThrence. "Well you come to
? hington and I'll give yimu
t ler for the dress," Sa.id
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