Evening star. [volume], January 11, 1961, Page C, Image 37

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Inaugural Extravaganza
Trumpets, World's Biggest Bondstand to Star
By MARY L. VAUGHAN
Star Staff Writer
The world's largest revolv
ing bandstand, the Army
Herald Trumpets, 400 full
dressed men of the Armed
Services and a 13,000 foot
square outside tent will be
a part of the star-studded
extraction at the National
Guard Armory Inaugural
Ball on January 20.
Approximately 20 distin
guished guests, whose names
will be announced later, will
be presented to the Presiden
tial and Vice Presidential
parties in a special cere
mony at all three ball sites—
the Armory and Sheraton-
Park and Mayflower Hotels.
For those who don’t have
tickets to the big night do
ings. NBC and CBS will
carry a 45-minute national
broadcast of the President
and his party and attendant
ceremonies from the Armory
Ball.
Mayflower First
The President will go first
to the Mayflower Hotel and
will be at the Armory from
U:l5 pm. to midnight be
fore proceeding on to the
Sheraton-Park.
Decorations for all three
balls were announced this
morning by the Inaugural
Committee who gave out ad
ditional details on music and
entertainment for the event.
At each ball, immediately
following the arrival of the
presidential party the Na
tional Anthem will be sung
by Broadway Star Jack
Irwin.
Playing for the arrival and
departure of the official
presidential and vice presi
dential parties at each ball
will be the United States Ma
rine Band, directed by Lt.
Col Albert Schoepper, and
the Army Herald Trumpets,
directed by Capt. Gilbert
Mitchell.
Mrs. Hankins Fort, chair
man of the Music and Enter
tainment Committee at the
balls, gave the following run
down on orchestras that will
play for the balls:
Count Basie will alternate
with Meyer Davis’ band at
the Armory. Howard Devron
and Henry King (of Texas)
will alternate at the Shera
ton-Park Hotel, and Lester
Lanin and Sidney will take
turns playing at the May
flower Hotel.
Two songs have been espe
cially written for the ball
music, dedicated to Mrs.
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Sketches of presidential boxes and decorations for the Inaugural Ball were
unveiled this morning by the Inaugural Ball Committee. Looking over the
plans ore (left to right) Mr. J. Antho’ny Moran, chairman of the Advisory
Committee of the Inaugural Ball; Mrs. Joseph P. Adams, chairman of the
Decorations Committee, and Mrs. Hankins Fort, chairman of the Music and
Entertainment Committee for the ball.—Star Staff Photo.
Kennedy and Mrs. Johnson.
’’Jacqueline’’ was written by
Mrs. Meyer Davis and ’’Lady
“Bird” was written by Mrs.
Fort. A third special selec
tion will be “New Frontiers,”
written by Bob Saffer and
George Mysels.
Mrs. Joseph P. Adams,
chairman of the Ball Decora
tions Committee, announced
that contract for the decora
tions of all three balls has
been awarded to Earl Har
grove of Hargrove Displays,
Inc., from this city.
Canopy of Gold
Plarts at the Armory in
clude a Presidential box
seating approximately 110 to
be located in the balcony just
inside the main entrance.
The box will have a canopy
of gold satin with four large
draperies of royal blue satin
near the top, held with gold
heavy tasselled rope. On the
face of the box against royal
blue satin will be affixed the
seals of the President and
Vice President.
Over the circular band
stand. (on the floor of the
Armory, located opposite the
presidential box>, will be a
canopy of royal and blue and
red satin lined with gold.
Silver grey Egyptian rep,
a sparkling stiff material, will
line the Armory wall. Huge
gold American eagles with a
wing span of 40 feet will
decorate each end of the
Armory. Overhead alternate
drapings of red and white
will form the ceiling.
There will be balcony boxes
adjoining the presidential
box at the Armory where
Governors of States and
members of the Diplomatic
Corps will be seated.
In the tent, with a 30-
foot entrance opening at the
Armory's east 4nd, decora-
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tions will include the same
red. silver and gold used in
side.
Free champagne, cake and
other edibles will be avail
able here, where a pre-fab
hardwood floor will be laid
and a temperature of 72 de
grees will be maintained
during the 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.
event.
At the Sheraton-Park and
Mayflower Hotels the same
silver gray material will be
used to line the walls.
Mr. Joseph Moran, Chair
man of the Inaugural Ball
Advisory Committee, an
nounced “arrangements are
progressing according to
schedule.”
He pointed out all commit
tee chairmen and members,
400 strong, are volunteers.
The largest floor subcom
mittee includes 243 workers
while there are approximately
160 hostess volunteers.
EXCLUSIVELY YOURS '
Most Envied Hostess
Mrs. George Wheeler to Fete Kennedys
By BETTY BEALE
Star Staff Writer
A chic, young Washington
matron overnight will become
the No. 1 political hostess of
the Kennedy administration.
Whether she retains the
title or not depends on the
future role of Mrs. George Y.
Wheeler, 11. wife of the
wealthy consultant to RCA.
But for the coming week
of inaugural festivities there
is no question but that the
good-looking brunet Jane has
the biggest plum any hostess
could desire.
It is to her fashionable
residence on Foxhall road
the evening of January 20
that possibly the new Presi
dent, and definitely his en
tire family as well as the
First Lady’s entire family
plus all of the cabinet and
their wives, as well as the
small coterie of the Jack
Kennedys’ most intimate
friends, will go for dinner
preceding the Inaugural Ball.
This number adds up to at
least 100 persons, so the
Wheelers didn’t even begin
to ask their own particular
friends. They have limited it
to the Kennedys’ special
group.
NATURALLY, JACQUE
LINE KENNEDY was the
first woman invited, but it
is possible that she will de
cline in order to have some
rest before beginning the long
evening of attending three
inaugural balls. She still tires
very easily and already that
day she will have attended
her husband's inauguration
and the Capitol Hill luncheon
that follows, driven back to
the White House to enter her
illustrious new home for the
first time and then watched
the parade for 2 hours and
46 minutes.
But to give his wife this
recuperating time to herself.
President Kennedy, who
proved his inexhaustibility
during his campaign, may
well join his mother, father,
brothers, sisters, in-laws, cab
inet and cousins for the 7:30
dinner on the most important
day of his life in the home
of the attractive socialite who
worked like a beaver for the
Citizens for Kennedy organ
ization-
in any case, the squadrod
of motorcycle policemen
swarming around the Wheeler
house that evening to escort
MRS. WHEELER
these people speedily through
town will be something to
behold.
** * *
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most brilliant scene’ in Wash
ington will be in Constitution
Hall where President-elect
and Mrs. Kennedy, accom
panied by their friend Bill
Walton, will occupy Box No.
13, while all around them
ensconced in boxes will be
Vice President and Mrs.
Johnson and their family,
former President and Mrs.
Truman with Margaret and
Clifton Daniel, Mrs. Wood
row Wilson, Mrs. Franklin
Delano Roosevelt. Adlai
Stevenson, new cabinet mem
bers, and such other celebri
ties as Robert Frost the poet
and Helena Rubinstein the
beautician. . . . Tickets for
all this, priced at $5 to $l5
for orchestra and balcony, $25
for box seats, go on sale to
morrow at the National Sym
phony Box office at 1108 G
street. ... (Is Helena Ru
binstein going to become the
Elizabeth Arden of this ad
ministration’]
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about this concert is that
the overture, “From Sea to
Shining Sea” by young
American composer John La
Montaine, was commissioned
especially for this concert by
the Democrats last August.
They were so sure their can
didate would get in. they
asked Howard Mitchell to
arrange it 2 l / 2 months before
the election!
DID THE REPUBLICANS
also make such a request?
The answer is no.
The Kennedys will arrive
at the Constitution Hall that
evening at 8:05 when the
composer and performing art
ists, violinist Mischa Elman
and pianist Earl Wild will be
introduced to them. Concert
goers who want to see them
arrive should be seated,
therefore, some minutes be
fore 8:15 when Howard
Mitchell will raise his baton.
The Kennedys will hear
the overture. Elman, and fi
nally Georgetown University
and Howard University male
choruses sing "The Testa
ment of Freedom”—writings
of Thomas Jefferson set to
music. Promptly at 9 when
intermission is due to begin,
they and the other top Gov
ernment VlP’s will depart
and head for the Armory
where they will arrive about
9:15, or so. The rest of the
audience can remain and
hear Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo
and Juliet Overture” and
Wild playing Gershwin’s
“Rhapsody in Blue.”
In the meantime, the
Democratic fund - raising
Inaugural Gala will have
begun at 8:45 with Leonard
Bernstein conducting the
orchestra in “Stars and
Stripes Forever.” If the
original plans hold, he will
then swing into “Walking
Down to Washington” with
such stars of the show as
Frank Sinatra. Mahalla
Jackson, Joey Bishop. Jimmy
Durante, Nat King Cole,
Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis,
Helen Traubel, Ethel Mer
man, Allen King, Gene Kelly,
Bette Davis, Keeley Smith,
Louis Prima, Ella Fitzgerald.
Dean Martin, Peter Lawford.
Milton Berle, Shirley Mac-
Laine and Belafonte sweep
ing In In groups of five, each
accompanied by 10 singers,
marching to the center arena
and facing the three sides
of the Armory. (All these
stars, by the way. will be In
vited to the Stephen Smiths’
party on the 17th.)
By this time the President
and his party are due to
enter and then the individual
spots of each artist will be
gin. At the wind-up of the
whole program, Emcee Sina
tra will introduce "Our next
President, Mr. John Fitz
gerald Kennedy,” and the
latter will address the assem
blage.
A final song will close
Washington's most exciting
evening until January 20.
•* * •
AN INTERESTING SIDE
LIGHT to the Inaugural
Concert is that 100 famous
Americans, from Mickey
Mantle to Bernard Baruch,
including Maria Callas, Harry
Golden, Kirk Douglas and de
Koonig, hav6 been asked for
statements on what great
music means to them and the
statements will begin to be
released next Tuesday,
, Comedian Sam Levenson
wrote back that we should
not send a man Into space
but an L. P. satellite with a
full symphony orchestra.
*♦ • e
P.S. The luncheon arranged
by Tish Baldrige for 100
members of the Kennedy
family, in-laws and intimatec
at the Mayflower on the 20th
immediately following the in
auguration. is not being given
by Tish at all. Host at the
huge affair will be the head
of the family, Joseph P.
Kennedy.
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