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Show Famed Orchestra Signs for Ball Mayer Davis, whose internationally interna-tionally famous orchestra will play for the Inaugural Ball on January. 20 at . the National Guard Armory in Washington, will be performing for his seventh sev-enth Inaugural Ball. It was announced an-nounced this week by Stanley Woodward, chairman of the Inaugural In-augural Ball Committee, that Mr. Davis will be the musical director of the ball. Mr. Davis' previous Inaugural Inaugur-al appearances included the ball in honor of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. Eisen-hower. He also played for the debut and wedding of Mrs. John F. , Kennedy. Mr. Davis has made 31 appearances ap-pearances at the White House and on the international scene conducted his . orchestra at the Versailles Debutante Ball in Versailles, France, in 1958, for the First American Debutante Ball in Rome last July and will play for the Latin American Debutante Ball in Rio de Janeiro Jan-eiro in July 1961. His orchestra hajs appeared before royalty on many occasions occa-sions including the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth at l the 1939 World's Fair and more recently for a dance in honor of King Baudoin of Belgium given by Governor and Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller of New York in 1959. James S. Bean, training de-viceman de-viceman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. James W Bean of 1077 Sescond Ave., is serving with the Atlantic Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit at the Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va. The unit trains Atlantic Fleet personnel in the maintenace nd operation of airborne electronics equipment. |