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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 14 WEST 49TH STREET, NEW YORK 1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TELEPHONE: CIRCLE 7 - 7 4 7 0

Wednesday evening, May 10, will be a big night in the

annals of the Museum of Modern Art. That evening, from nine un­

til one o'clock next morning, the Trustees of the Museum will

hold a reception for members and invited guests, who will be

given a private preview of a new two-million-dollar, glass-

walled Museum and the exhibition Art In Our Time which marks

the Museum*3 tenth anniversary.

Preceding the reception at the Museum forty brilliant

dinners v/ill be given by some of New York!s most prominent hosts

and hostesses, all of them closely identified with the Museum

as committee members or officials. Dinner guests will then at­

tend the reception at the Museum with their hosts and hostesses.

Dinners to be given are as follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss and Mr. and Mrs. John Parkinson,Jr. Entertaining" Jointly

(Mr. Bliss is a Trustee; Mrs. Bliss is Chairman of the Membership Committee: Mrs. Parkinson is member of the Advisory Committee)

Mr. James Barney Mr. and Mrs. Bernard J.Harrison Mrs. August Belmont Mr. Thomas Dabney Mabry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Mason Brown Miss Audrey Maynard Miss Lucrezia Bori Mr.and Mrs.Walter Maynard,Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Chester G. Burden Mrs. Dwight Tiler row Mr. George Cehanovsky Dr. Lawrence Pool Dr. and Mrs. Harry Woodburn Chase Mrs. John H. Prentice Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Coward Mme.Olga Samaroff-Stokowski Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Davis Miss Beatrice W. Straight Mr. Morton Eustis Mrs. Diego Suarez Mr. Pelix Greene Mr. and Mrs. Myron C. Taylor Mr. Edward Johnson Mr.and Mrs. Gerald P. Warburg Mr« Lincoln Kirstein Mr. Monroe Wheeler

Mr. and Mrs. William A. M. Burden

(Mr. Burden is a member of the Advisory Committee. Mrs. Burden i3 a member of the Membership Committee)

Mrs. Cameron Clark Mr.and Mrs.Frederick Mosely,Jr Mr. and Mrs. Philip Barry Mr. and Mrs. Paul Nitze Mr. and Mrs. David K. E. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H.P.Pell (Brookneal, Va.) Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Millott, Jr. Mr. Isamu Noguchi

Mr. and Mrs. Porter Chandler

(Mr s • Chandler i s a mcmber of the Advi s ory Commi 11oe )

Mr. and Mrs. E. Whitney Debevolse Mr. and Mrs. William H.Osborn Mr. and Mrs. William A. Delano Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shepley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Lament

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Mrs. Griffith B. Coale

(Mrs. Coale is Chairman of the Artists Reception Committee and a member of the Membership Committee)

Mr. and Mrs. Roy Larson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merz Mr. and Mrs. N.Peter Rathvon

Mrs. W. Murray Crane

(Mrs. Crane is a Trustee and one of the founders of the Museum)

Mr. Jere Abbott, (Korthampton, Mass)

Dr.and Mrs.James Rowland Angell, (New Haven)

Mr. and Mrs. Wells Bosv/orth Dr.and Mrs.Nicholas Murray Butler Mrs. Henry Clev/s, Jr. Mr. Royal Cortissoz Miss Malvina Hoffman

Mr. and Mrs. Robt.Edmfcmd Jones Mr. Samuel Kress Mr•and Mr s. Horace Jayne, (Wallingford, Pa.)

T.E.The Swiss Minister and Mmc. Peter (Washington,D.C.)

Mr. and Mrs. Harold I. Pratt Mr. and Mrs. Percy S.Straus,J?. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert-E.Win!oxlc

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Emmet

(Mrs. Emmet is a member of the Advi sory Commi11ee)

Mr. and Mrs.Courtlandt D.Barnes,Jr. Mr.and Mrs.Robert Littoll Mr. and Mrs. John Churchill Mr. Morton Powell Miss Greta K e l l e r Mr. and Mrs. James P.Warburg

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field

(Mr. Marshall Field is a Trustee)

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bancroft Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Carstairs

Mr.and Mrs.Elbridge GerryCbodwfck Mr. and Mrs.Henry F. Osborn Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Reynal

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Fife

(Mrs. Fife i3 Vice-Chairman of the Membership Committee)

Mr.and llrs. James Auchincloss Mr. and Mr3.Wm. Pelton Barrett Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kay Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Kinney

Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. English Mrs. Montgomery Hare Mr. and Mrs. Louis V. Lodoux

Mr. Philip Goodwin

(Mr. Goodwin is a Trustee of the Museum)

Mr. and Mrs. Alvar Aalto Mr.and Mrs. Wm. Loscaze Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Everett Austin, Jr., Mr. and Mrs.Edward Stone (Hartford, Conn.) Mrs. Chas. B. Goodspeod,

Mr. Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Jr., (Chicago) (Middletown, Conn.)

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Mr. and Mr3. Michael M. Hare

(Mr. Hare is Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Committee)

Mr. Alfred Auerbach Mr.and Mrs.Francis McN. Bacon,III Mr.and Mrs. Wm. C. Chanlor Mr. and Mrs. II. Edward Drolor Mr•and Mr s•Mont gome ry Har c, Jr.

Mr.and Mrs.Barklie M. Henry Mr,and Mrs. Wm. R. Huntington Mr. Clement G. Hurd Mr. and Mrs. George McAneny Mr. and Mrs. John E. Parsons

Mr. and Mrs. Sherman P. Haight

(Mrs. Haight is a member of the Member­ship Committee)

Mr. Ashbel Barney Mr Mr. John Erskine Mr Miss Belle de Costa Greene Mr Mrs. 0*Donne11 Hoover Mr Dr.and Mrs. Wm.Barclay Parsons,Jr. Mri

and Mrs. Marc Peter, Jr. Alan Reed Priest and Mrs. Marvin Ross and Mrs. Francis H.Taylor E. E. Young

Miss Ethel Haven

(Miss Havon is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Museum)

Mrs. Stevens Baird Mr.and Mrs,Henry Billings Mr • and Mi's, Ar chib a 1 d Br own Mr • and Mrs • Froderic Cromv;ell Mr•G•Laude r Gre cnway Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hay Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Ivins,Jr Mr. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., (Pittsburgh)

Mr.and Mrs.Thos. S. La Fargo Mr. Henry P. Mcllhenny, (Phi1a dclphi a)

Mr. and Mrs. Roland Redmond Mr. Willis Simpkins-Mr. and Mrs.Arnold Whitridge

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Lowisohn

(Mr. Levd.sohn is 2nd Vice.-Prei;i:.:ont; ] rr:. Lev/isohn is a member of the Advisory and Membership

Committee)

Mrs. Sidney C. Borg Dr. John Dewey Mr. and Mrs.Maurice Garreau-Dombasle Mr. Ralph Hayes, (Wilmington,Delaware)

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittlcson Mrs. Arthur Lehman Mr.and Mrs.V'alerien Lada Mecarsky, (Chappaqua, 171)

Mr. Raymond Moley Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moses Mr. and Mrs. Donald Oenslagcr

Mr. and Mrs. Dun can Phillips Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer Mr.and Mrs.Edgar L.Rossin Mr.and I.Irs.R.B. Scandrett Mr.Justice and Mrs. Harlan Fisko Stone, (Washington)

Mr. and Mrs. Roger Straus Mr.and Mrs. Herbert Bayard Swope

Mr. and Mrs. Ordway Tead Mr.and Mrs. Sigournoy Thayer Mr. Maurice B. Werthelm Mr.and Mrs. Clarence Mott Wooley

Mr. and Mrs. Maurice T. Moore (Mrs. M oorc is a member of the Membership

Committee)

Mr, Hamilton Bryan Mrs. Kendrick Eustis Mr. and Mrs. Allen Grover Mr. a nd Mr s . A1 e xand o r He rid o r s on

Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Leewy Mr. and Mrs. Eliot D, Pratt Mr, and Mr3, Lev/is Strauss

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Mr. and Mrs. D. Percy Morgan

(Mrs. Morgan is a member of the Advisory Committee)

Mr.and MIB* .Stephen Vincent Benet Mr.and Mrs.Sidney Coo Howard Mr.and Mrs.Predorick R. King Mr.and Mrs.Walter Lippmann, (Washington)

Mr.and Mrs. Paul Manship Mr.and Mrs. Albert Spalding, (Great Barrington, Mass)

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G.White

Mr. and Mrs. William S. Paley

(Mr. Paley is a Trustee of the Museum)

Mr•and Mrs•John Baragwanath Mr. Charles Baskcrvllle Mr. Henri Bernstein (Paris) Mrs. Mary WhoIan Currier Mr.and Mrs. Howard Dietz Mr.and Mrs.Artemus Gates

Mr.and Mrs. Wm.Randolph Hearst,Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lehman Mr.Frederick Lonsdale (London) Mr.and Mrs.Harold E. Talbott Miss Angelica Welldon Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wilson

Mr. and Mrs. Duncan H. Read

(Mrs. Road is member of the Advisory Committee)

Mr. and Mrs . Jo s e ph. CI ark Ba Id win Mr•and Mr s.Lewi s H. Br own Mr•and Mrs•Ferdinand Ebcrstadt Mr.and Mrs.Frederick W. Ecker Mr.and Mrs.W.M.L.Fis^e, III

Mr.and Mrs.James V. Forrestal Mr. and Mrs. Franc is T.P.Plinptcn Mr. and Mrs. George A. Sloan Mr.and Mrs.James H. Van Alen

Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Russell

(Mrs. Russell is a member of the Advisory Committee)

Mrs. Sosthenos Behn Mr. and Mrs.Walter P.Chrysler Mr. Gano Dunn Mr.and Mrs.Geo. Nichols Mr.Nathaniel Sal tonstall, (Boston, Mass)

Mr.and Mrs.Kenneth E.Stockton Mrs. Charles Tyson Mr.and Mrs.Robert R. Young

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Shcppard

(Mrs. Sheppard is treasurer of

the Museum) Mr.and Mrs.Frank Bcrcsford Mr.and Mrs.Stophon C. CIark Mrs.Jocelyn H.dc Grasse Evans Mrs. She par d Fabbri Mr.and Mrs.T.Catesby Jones

Mr. Russell E. Plimpton, (Minneapolis, Minn.)

Mr.and Mrs.Nicholas Roosevelt Commander Guido Sansoni Mr.and Mrs.F. Louis Slade Mr. Lewis Williams

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Simpson

(Mrs. Simpson is a member of the Me mb e rs hi p C ommi 11 e e)

Mr. and Mrs. Norman Bol-Gcddes Mr.and Mrs. Richard Blow Mr.and Mrs. Henry A.Bull, Jr#

Mr.and Mrs.Chester Dale Mr • and Mr s • Eml in" E11 i ng (Haverford, Pa.)

Mr. and Mrs.waiter Hope Mr.and Mrs.Stanley Isaacs Mr.and Mrs.CD.Jackson

Mr.and Mrs. C.J.LaRoche Mr.and Mrs.Harrie T•Lindeberg Mr.and Mrs.James B.Mabon, Jre

Mr.and Mr s.Edward J•Ma the w Mr.and Mrs.Henri Morin de' Linclays

Mr. Condo Nast Mr.and Mrs.Frederick B. Payne Mr.and Mrs.Amos R. Pinchot Mr.and Mrs.Joseph B.Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. George Palen Snow

(Mrs. Snov/ is a member of the Advisory Committee)

Mr.Leslie Chock M.and Lime.Salvador D a l i , (Paris)

Mr. Walker Evans Baron Nicholas de Gunzbourg, (Paris)

Mr.and Mrs.Francis Hackett Miss Frances McFadden Mr.and Mrs.T. Reed Vree1and

Mr. Edward M. M. Warburg

(Mr. Warburg is a Trustee)

Miss Barbara Cusiiing Mr. and Mrs.Alexander C.Forbes Mr.and Mrs. Robert Levy Mr.and Mrs.Harold Lindcr Miss Agnes Mongan, (Cambridge, Mass)

Mr•and Mrs.Franc is W.Pe r shing Mr.and Mrs.Edward H. Robbins Mr.barren Robbins Mr.and Mrs.James Roosevelt Mr.and Mrs.Frederic Ullman Mr.Erich Warburg Mr.and Mrs.Paul F.Warburg

Mrs. Egerton L. Winthrop, Jr,

Mr. Paul Cadmus Mr. Robert T. Francis Mrs. Theodore M. Hatfield Mr.and Mrs. J.Russell Lynos Mr.Henry McBride

Mr. William Pahlmann Miss Katherine Anne Porter Miss Edith ..etmore Mr. Glenway Wescott