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HOLLYWOOD STARS SIGN AT FDR'S POLIO BENEFITS (ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.) Two President's Birthday Ball programs for 1937 and 1938. Each Signed by over 30 attendees including mostly entertainers and politicians, most in pencil, most on inside front cover, originally owned by Judge Richmond Bowling Keech, to whom some have additionally inscribed. The first, some signatures written on pages 9 and 13. The second, some signatures written on foreword page and page 6. Bound together in 4to, cloth with gilt titling on front, each in original wrappers, each preceded by blank leaf marked with a plastic tab; some soiling to title-page of first, faint uneven toning to inside cover of first. [Washington, 1937; 38]
1937: J. Edgar Hoover • Jean Harlow • Frederick Jagel • Marsha Hunt • Robert Taylor • Mitzi Green • Maria Gambarelli • George E. Allen • John Trent • Harry Hines Woodring • Eddie Elkins • Joseph T. Robinson • others. 1938: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (FDR's son) • Ethel du Pont Roosevelt • Elliott Roosevelt (FDR's son) • Ruth Josephine Googins Roosevelt • Frederic March • Ray Bolger • Gwendolyn Rickard Bolger • Joe E. Brown • Louise Fazenda • William Alexander Julian • Harry Hines Woodring • Ken Murray • Stanley Forman Reed • Maria Gambarelli • Florence Eldridge • George E. Allen • Arthur Capper • Melvin C. Hazen • others. With--Two items: Eleanor Roosevelt. Signature, as First Lady, on a White House card. 2¾x4¼ inches. Np, [1933-45] • Program for special performance of Hellman's Watch on the Rhine at the National Theatre on January 25, 1942 as part of President Roosevelt's Diamond Jubilee Birthday Celebration. Notes by Keech written vertically on first page, in pencil. 4 pages, small 4to, printed on folded sheet. (Washington: Clifton Aires), [1942].
