The Archive · 1939

Radio Star to Sing

Washington, May 30.

The popular radio singer, Miss Kate Smith, will sing for King George and Queen Elizabeth at the White House on Jine 8, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the President, announced today.

Miss Smith will be one of the stars of the special musicale arranged by Mrs. Roosevelt. The musicale will follow the state dinner. Mr. Lawrence Tibbett, opera and screen singer, and Miss Marian Anderson, sensational Negress contralto, will head the programme. Works Progress Administration trained chorus girls wil perform and there will be an exhibi tion of square dances and folk songs by Kentucky girls.

'W.P.A. guide books on Washington, D.C., will be placed in the royal suite at the White House, it was announced today.

The guide book include the history of the capitol, including a description of the war of 1812 when British troops sacked and burned the capitol—

United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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