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FORT WORTH STA1-TELEGRAM -9 Fri. Morning, Oc. 19, 1945.
FASHION EXHIBIT OPENING NIGHT
Fower Sow Features
Discussed at Meeting
A fashion show for the open-'choir, for the closing night, will
ing night, a concert by a "name be features of the Fort Worth
band," of the Wayne King, Jan Flower Show to be staged in Will
Garber, Benny Goodman, caliber Rogers Memorial Coliseum and
for the second night, and an out- auditorium next May 10, 11 and
standing musical event, either112. The show will be sponsored
symphony orchestra, or 400-voice by the Fort Worth Garden Club,
-- Mrs. T. J. Harrell, president.
These and other plans for en-
tertainment features of the show
were discussed Thursday at a
meeting of the club's flower show1
committee at the home of the
chairman, Mrs. C. D. Reimers.
William E. Colvert, who will be
managing director of the show,
met with the committee, and Mrs.
Will F. Lake, president of the,
park board and director of the
Garden Center was a guest.
The committee voted to permit
a restricted number. of commercial
exhibits, and planned an extensive
chemurgy exhibit as an educational
feature. Colvert outlined plahs to
obtain exhibits of flowers from
all the United Nations through
embassies, exhibits of state flow-
ers from every state in the Union,
also entries from professional and
amateur growers outside Texas.
Ribbons will be awarded in all
classes, with separate competitions
for amateurs and professionals.
Immediate campaign to reach
home gardeners urging that they
begin their preparations now to
grow flowers for entry in the
show next May also were dis-
cussed.
Members of the show committee
present: Mmes. Henry Trigg, Var-,
ner Beall Stevens, E. P. Bass,
Murray Kyger, Harrell and Reim-
ers. The committee will meet next
Thursday with Mrs. Bass at the
Fort Worth Club.SAN ANGELO EVENING STANDARD,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1945
Colvert Takes
Floral Show's
Promotion Job
Bill Colvert, insurance man, Is
taking a leave of absence for eight
months from his company, the
Bankers' Life of Des Moines, and
will take charge of promotion of a
$50,000 flower show for the Fort
Worth Garden Club. The event will
be staged in the Will Rogers Coli-
seum next May.
Colvert mapped plans for the
event in a recent meeting with the
Fort Worth sponsors and with these
accepted he is to devote most of
his time now to the floral extrava-
ganza, which is expected to have
exhibits from every state and from
many Allied nations. Flowers may
be brought in by aerial transport
for the big show.
Colvert promoted and managed
the big floral exhibit in Community
Gymnasium last fall as sponosred
by the Jaycees, the success here
providing entree for the Fort Worth
exposition.
In conjunction with the event at
Fort Worth there wil be a three-
day style show, Benny Goodman's
Band will provide concerts, and on
the last night there will be a mass-
ed choir of 400 voices giving a pro-
gram. A chemurgy exhibit is also
being planned in conjunction.
Mrs. T. J. Harrell, president of
the clubs; Mrs. C. D. Riemers,
chairman of the show; Edgar Deen,
president and general manager of
the Fort Worth Livestock Show;
Murray Kyger, vice-president of the
First National Bank; and T. J.
Harrell, president of the Traders
Cottonseed Oil Mill, are among the
sponsors of the program.THE FORT WORTH
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1945
* S
Attention amateur song writers: Fort Worth Garden Club
wants a theme song for its flower show, to be held at Wil Rs C. E.
Memorial Coliseum next May. Submit your tunes t
Reimers, 5000 Crestline. Gne ree
Orchestra leader Kenneth Pitts and his singer, GieFort ronth
have turned in the first entry, a number ey
Bouquet." * *THE FORT WORTH
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 194
By JACK ( RON
Salvador Dali to Be Brought Here for Show
Salvador Dali. Spanish painter as well as flowers of the United! choir of more than 400 voices or
now living in California. will be Nations, a symphony orchestra. On Sunday
o th for the rti On the first night a style show afternoon Greg Conway, interna-,
brought to Fort or a will be featured in a Colonial flow- flower arranger, willsbe fea-
show to be held in connection with er garden. On the second night tonal
the city-wide flower show May 10, there will be a big name band,1 tured.
11 and 12 at Will Rogers Coliseum! and on the third night, which isl At the meeting yesterday were
and Auditorium. ,Sunday, there will be either a Mmes. Henry Trigg, E. P. Bass,
Plans were made for the show Varner Beall Stevens, T. J. Har-
at a coffee yesterday at the home rell and Murray Kyger. The nexti
of the chairman, Mrs. C. D. Reim- m eating pill be held Thursday
ers, 5000 Crestline Rd.r B apartment at the Fort
An exhibit of Pan-American Worth Club ,
flowers will be held in connection Wn director of the slow, arrived
S with the show, it also was an- nt dctrof thweknd hw rre
bouncedd. The committee also plans ain the ut i e t hiseeek andhwill re
to exhibit flowers of every stats mainnhee until after the show.PRESS
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