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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (1-98) THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

September 30, 1974

MEMORANDUM FOR BILL ROBERTS

FROM: LUCY WINCHESTER

SUBJECT: Press Coverage for the Congressional Retirees Dinner and the State Dinner for General Secretary Gierek

The following is per our phone conversation this morning.

Mrs. Ford's unfortunate illness presents the opportunity to raise a question that might have been held until later. However, since tllere will be a distinct change in the format of the upcoming events, this might be a good time to present it.

Does the President wish to continue the filming of the toasts with a mini­ camera?

Guests, including members of the press corps who have been guests, have expressed to me their displeasure at having the bright lights and the crashing and banging of the cameramen (who do talk as softly as possible in the corner, but do disturb the guests) during toasts. They consider this out of character with President Ford's relaxed, low key image and they think the press-studio atmosphere in the State Dining Room somewhat less than Presidential. Also to be considered is the damage done by the equipment to the curtains, furniture, and walls in the State Dining Room and Red Room.

For my own part, I will be delighted to do anything that the President wishes at his dinners. However, the camera platforms and the light towers use space which is needed to serve more graciously and they do crunch the guests tighter than is comfortable.

If the decision is for continued mini-camera coverage of toasts, I do request that the platforms and light towers be placed by your people in the State Dining Room by noon the day of any dinner. Any later creates undue confusion and the chance of irreparable damage.

I realize that you are terribly busy now, manning the rampart at Bethesda, but I would appreciate yot:,r early attention to this matter.

Thank you. • Revised: 3:00 p . rn . 10/8/74

' THE WHITE HOUSE

WA SHINGTO N DINNER IN HONOR OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE FIRST SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE POLISH UNITED WORKERS' PARTY AND MRS. GIEREK

October 8, 1974 8:00 p. rn.

Dress: Black tie long dresses for the ladies

Arrival:

7:30 p. m .... at North Portico Entrance ... First Secretary Gierek, Foreign Minister Olszowski and Ambassador Rockwell

You will g r eet

Photo coverage of greeting

You will escort First Secretary Gierek and Foreign Minister Olszowski to the Treaty Room ... Secretary Kissinger will join you

Yellow Oval Room:

Mrs. Gierek, Mrs. Kissinger, Ambassador and Mrs . Rockwell, American Ambassador and Mrs. Richard Davies , Deputy Prime Minister and Mrs. Jagielski, Mrs. Olszowski, and Foreign Ambassador and Mrs. Trampcz ynski will assemble in the Yellow Oval Room ... you, First Secretary Gierek, Foreign Minister Olszowski and Secretary Kis5inger will join them at 8:00 p. m .

Color Guard will request permission to remove Colors at approximately 8 :10 p . m .... a ll guests except First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek will depart at this tim e

Grand Entrance:

Approximately 8 :12 p . m .... descend C-rand Staircase preceded by Color Guard •

-2- Gierek State Dinner

Pause at foot of staircase for official photograph (First Secretary Gierek to your right ... Mrs. Gierek to your left)

Color Guard reforms and procession moves to red carpet facing East Room ... pause for Ruffles and Flourishes and announcement ... take receiving line positions (First Secretary , Gierek to your right ... then Mrs. Gierek)

Follow Color Guard into East Room when "Hail to the Chief" is played

Receiving Line:

Take position just inside door of East Room ..• Ambassador Rockwell will present your guests

After receiving line, follow guests into State Dining Room

Dinner:

Round tables and rectangular head table

Strolling Strings will play during dessert

No press coverage of dinner; toasts will be piped to the press ... transcripts will be released to the press ... there will be mini-camera coverage of the toasts with a small photo pool

After Dinner:

10:00 p. m .•.. guests proceed to parlors for coffee, liqueurs and cigars. You will escort First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek to the Blue Room where you will visit informally with your guests

10:05 p. m .•.. after-dinner guests will be escorted to ':he State Floor. You, First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek (:r<'irst Secretary Gierek to y our right ... then Mrs. Gierek} will receive the after-dinner guests from a position in the Grand Hall between the Blue Room and Green R oom doors - - a Military Social Aide will present your g u ests -- guests will proceed to the East Room and take their seats • - ::>- I ! j •I .1

Enter tain:::nent:

_.;.:ter the guests are seated, you will enter the East Room th::-ough the center door and seat Fir st Secretary and ),.fr s. Gierek

You proceed to the stage which will be located along the north end wall and introduce the Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre

NOTE: Suggested remarks (Tab A)

At the c

NOTE: There will be press coverage of the entertainment,· including television coverage of the last portion of the program, "Circus Parade, 11 and of your thanking the performers. Also, there will be photo coverage.

After you have thanked Mr. Kipnis and the members of the Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre, you will escort First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek to the Grand Hall for dancing

Departure:

You, Ambassador and Mrs. Rockwell escort First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek to the North Portico

You may wish to return for dancing or return to the Family Quarters

There will be champagne and dancing for the guests who ·remain

NOTES:

The dinner and after-dinner guest lists are attached (Tab B)

A suggested toast is attached (Tab C)

TC.ere will be interpreters

>.Elitary Social Aides w ~ 1 l be present •

-4- Gie rek S ta:~ I:::::. ::::~:-

Tb..e United' States Navy Band will be playing on the South P o :-tico as your dinner guests arrive

An Army Harpist will be playing in the Diplomatic Reception· Room as your after-dinner guests arrive

Lucy Winchester •

FACT SHEET Mrs. Ford's Office

EventSTATE DINNER honoring First Secretary Gierek of Poland (Black Ti~) Group DATE/TIME----- October-----:::--:--:--c~--=--cc-=---- 8, 1974 8: 00 p. m . ------~ Contact Pat Howard Phone 292 7 "'-'~'-'-'-'==-=------~'------x Number of guests: Total ------110 Women------x Men----- Chilclren----- Place State Floor Principals involvt:d President and Mrs. Ford Participation by Principal __,_y_e_s______--' (Receiving line )_ _,y'-e_s ______. __ Remarks required yes -"------~------Background This will be the· first visit to the US of a Polish official of Gierek's rank.

REQlJIREl\H;:NTS

SociJl: Invitations yes rrogramsYeS Menus yes ------~ ---- Refreshments State Dinner Format Enterta~nment yes ~------~---'--- Decorations/ flowers-- yes------Music yes

Social Aidcs_ _ ~y_e_s______Dress Black Tie Coat yes Other ------TO BE RESOLVED Press: Reporters ------~----- Photographers------TV Crews ------·------~ White House Photo~aphcrs_-"-y_e_s______Color--- - - Mono_------Other ------~ Technical Suppo~t : l\1icrophones_ _ .z....::..=:_es· ______PA Other Rooms yes (?) R~cording__ y"---e_s ______Lights yes

Transportation By Car______..::::.;.__~ P~1rkin G South Grounds______~.:_ _ _

tlousini;------/ Othc r ( P-.i se rs,sta!je,platforms) ------~ ------

Prnject Co-ordin;ttor Pat Howard;;______Phone - - 2 -=--9 2---- 7 Si te diagrams should be attached if t echnical support is heavy. THE CHIEF OF PROTOCOL DEPARTMENT OF STATE WJ\SHJNGTON October 4, 1974

MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT

THE WRITE . HOUSE

SUBJECT: Suggested Gifts for The Polish First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek

The Polish First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek will bring gifts for you and Hrs. Ford on their visit to Washington next week and I would .like to recommend the following as your · and Mrs. Ford's gifts to them:

Fir~t Secretary Gierek

Kittinger hand-crafted reproduction of Newport block­ front chest of drawers by John Goddard (circa 1760), with ·Presidential Seal and engraved presentation plaque.·

Mrs. Gierek

Cybis sculpture in white bisque porcelain of mother with two children on American walnut base with Presidential Seal, 16 1/2" tall, 11" diameter. ( This sculpture , admired by Mrs.· Ford at the recent Gifts Display at . the Blair House, 1is one which Cybis Porcelain will make available exclusively to Mrs . Ford for her official presentations.)

First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek

Color photograph of you and the Giereks at their White House Arrival Ceremony, in a silver frame with Presidential Seal, with the following suggested inscription:

"To First Secretary and Mrs. Gierek,

With every good wish to you and to the People of Poland on the occasion of your visit to Washingtcn,

October, 1974 ( ·, /Gerald R. Ford" I .I : . w ( ..... -.). I I ."l . ' l .I ,~ ~...... ~ :· ~·~ ··'·.C .u I.. ~ ~ Henry t. Ca~to, J~. . "

THE WHJTE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

GIFTS FR0).1 THE FIRST SECRETARY AND MRS. GIEREK

FOR THE WHITE HOUSE

A large oil portrait oi the Polish patriot Tadeus Kosciuszko. This is a copy of the original 18th c . portrait done by Joseph Grassi. The copy was done by Miss Danute Saw:;.or. j I FOR THE PRESIDENT

A large silver presentation box decorated on the lid with a cut-out and applied Polish eagle, 11 3/4" wide, 8 1/4" deep, 2" tall, lined in maroon . He also received 3 navy leather stamp albums containing a large collection of Polish stamps.

FOR MRS. FORD

A long necklace of polished pieces of natural amber- 46" long.

FOR SUSAN FORD

A length of material and a natural color shawl with a floral design with a long white fringe in a wooden chest. •

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford

Preside:it and Mrs. Ford have invited the Claude Kipnis l'v'lime Theatre to entertain at a State Dinner honoring the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party and Mrs. Gierek on Tuesday, October 8, .I 1974 at 8:00 p. m.

I, 11 The Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre, hailed as one of the giants of contemporary 'I 1 1 !1 theatre , is a mixture 0£ ballet, drama and music. Claude Kipnis has created works for solo mime, mime troup alone and mime troups with orchestra.

Claude Kipnis was born in Paris q._nd after studying with Marcel Marceau , founded a school of mime in Tel-Aviv. Since coming to the United St ates dur~n.g the 1965-66 season for a nine -week engagement at New York's Theatre du Lys with "~1 en and Dreams", Mr. Kipnis has led his Theatre on extended annual tours of North America. The Theatre has appeared at the Ravinia Festival and the Jacob' s Pillow D ance Festival as well as many colleges and u n iversities. His most recent work, " Pictures at an Exhibition11 had its· premiere in New York in June of this.year. When not touring, Claude Kipnis heads the mime department of the American Academy of Drama tic Arts in New York.

The company of eight includes £our men and three women, all of whom were stude nts of Mr. Kipriis' from the University of Illinois where he was Artist I in Residence for three years, or from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in N ew York. The groups' flexibility enables it to do works with orchestra like Dukas ' "The Sorcerer' s Apprentice" for the N e·w York Philharmonic and worlZs for childre n, "The Magic Hour" . The Kipnis Mime Theatre tries to leave the range of its work as open as possible , from the traditional to the contemporary, from the silent mime to the music based pantomime, from the solo to the ensemble.

TJ1.e Theafre is curre ntly beginning a five -month tour. The y have been fea tured at Paris 1 Theatre d es Nations Festival as well as national tel evision a nd on BBC in, .

# # # # # (POLAND)

(SEAL)

DINNER

Louis Martini Johannisberger Riesling Coquilles Saint Jacques

Charles Krug Supr~rne of Pheasant Srnitane Cabernet Sauvignon Wild Rice Broccoli au Beurre

Garden Salad Muenster Cheese

Korbel Natural Glace Pralint'e Petits Fours

The White House Tuesday, October 8, 1974 HUROK CONC~lt'l'S J:l/0 llv1111110. ol tho /\morlr.~i • Nr•w Y111 k, N. Y. I Ofl l ') SHEILA PORTER Director of l'uhlicily JOHN GINGRICH Publicity Associate U.FADl!R /11 Telephone: (212) 245-0500

Hurok Concerts is a Division of Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of General Electric CIAUDE IUPNIS MIME T.IIE\TilE

The genius of Claude IG.pnis hns been savored by audiences in many countries

through many media. Hailed by Nm1house Newspapers critic Byron Belt as "one of the

giants of contemporary theatre," he has created works for solo mime, mime troupe

alone and mime troupe with orchestra; has performed on television; lectured on mime

and published a book on mime. Claude Kipnis was born in Paris and after studying with Marcel Marceau, founded

a school of mime in Tel-Aviv. Since coming to the United States during the 1965-66

season for a nine-week engagement' at Ne~1 York's Theatre du Lye with "Men and Dreams," he has led his Claude Ilipnis Mime Tbeatre on extended annual tours of North America.

He has appeared at many colleges and universities as well as the Ravinia Festival .. and the Jacob's Pillovr Dance Festival • His most recent work, "Pictures at an Exhibition," had its premiere fn New York on June 4, 1974. Among his commissions are "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" for the New York Phil- harmonic, "The Comedians" for the Little Orchestra Society as well as works for the

Boston Opera Company where he served ns Director in Residence and the University of

Illinois where he was Artist in Residence for three years. In addition to his performances Claude Kipnis has presented his lecture-

demonstration "Art of \'line" in Europe and North America and his 11The Mime Book" was

published by Harper & Ro\1 in June, 1974. His numerous television appearances in- elude NBC 1s Today and programs on the BBC in London. / rlhen not touring, Claude Kipnis heads the mime department of the American

Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.

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CL/I um: JUrNIS MIME TIIPATiill

The Claude m.pnis Mimo Thea trc, which comos to______on __ _

------' has a diverse repertory developed over the more than five seasons the

gronp has been touring together.

'!'he company of eight includes four men and three women, all of whom were

students of Kipnis from the University of Illinois, where he was Artist in Residen~e

for three years,or from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York where he

heads the mime department.

The repertory includes works for which the music was especially written for the

f!ompany such as "Men and Dreams," or which grew from existing music such as the com-

:r•.my ' s latest work to Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." The company's flex-

• ibility enables it to do works with orchestra like Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprtntice,'

originally commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and works for children "The

Magic Ilour."

Wherever it has appeared, from Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival to the Tulvinia

Festival, from the University of Texas to the University of Wisconsin, the Cl aude

m.pnis Mime Theatre has taken the ancient art form of the mime and continued its

l:tvir.g tradition for children and adults, no matter what their language. #

Au~ust, 197~ S.HUROK PRESENTS Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre TRIUMPHS IN NEWYORK!

THE NEW YORK TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1974 i.ONG ISLAND PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1974 Mime: Kipnis Vignettes· .. . . . By BYRON BELT I CLAUDE KIPNIS. A far too brief two­ Bravos and Laughter Acclaim 2 Series night engagefuent at the 92nd Street Y of Sketches at Kaufmann Hall for The Claude Kipnis Mime Theatre ended last evening with a resoundingly triumphant performance received with By ANNA KISSELGOFF rapturous attention and a shouting, stand­ Mime is an ancient art but been retained but they are ing ovation. Claude Kipnis knows very given comic interpretations, Claude Kipnis is certainly one of the well how to adapt it to to- often in direct contrast to the giants of contemporary theatre. His singu­ day's audience. Bravos, themes associated with the lar mixture of ballet, drama and music re­ laughter and people filled the music. sults in mime of a very special sort. The house all evening Tuesday The link between the epi­ illusion created by Kipnis and his brilliant when the Claude Kipnis Mime sades is Mr. Kipnis himself ensemble (particularly Rudy Benda and Theater performed at Kauf- as a gum-chewing graffiti Chris Swing) becomes a reality so ines­ mann Concert Hall. artist who finds that another capable that one laughs and cries with ' At his last local concert kind of art has changed his deepest empathetic involvement. in 1970, Mr. Kipnis showed life at the close. The engagement offered the premiere a tendency toward social The catch is that Mr. Kip· of "Pictures At An Exhibition," based on a commentary. Now the format nis not only sees each picture recording of the Maurice Ravel orchestra­ -for solo numbers as well (represented by other per­ as members of his company formers) come alive but he tion of Modest Moussorgsky's vivid musi­ -is still that of the vignette, also in-ervenes in the proc- cal paintings. Art vivant has never been ess. In the section, "The so vivacious as in this newest Kipnis but the emphasis is on char- Castle," a torrid kiss with a delight. acter sketches. Humor is al· damsel in less than distress ways an ingredient. Yet it is introduces her to gum-chew· Basing his approach on the subtitles ot often bittersweet, wafting in ing; "Baba Y~ga" shows .no the Victor Hartmann paintings that in­ the melancholy of the dream· sign of the witch of Russian spired Moussorgsky, Kipnis has come up er and the little man. Some· fairy tales but presents :i with vignettes of children at play in the times, of the loser. Mr. Kip- modern one with six breasts, Tuilleries, a chicken in and out of her shell, nis is a sensitive and intelli- an alter ego nd a bump-and- .;ent artist. grind routine. and a lively market. He has also aug­ Two series of sketches In these episodes, Mr. mented the devastating portrait of the rich made up the program: the Kipnis tends toward a repre· and poor Jews and provided a glorious premiere of "Pictures at an sentational form of mime, six-breasted Baba Yaga in drag. Kipnis Exhibition," which uses Mus- where the gesture speaks for sorgsky's suite of the same itself. In "Men and Dreams," ties it all together as a blue-jeaned graf­ title, and "Men and Dreams," he emphasizes the creation fitee artist who will never be the same an older piece from which of illusion: His "Eve and the after his encounters with the lively ten Mr. Kipnis, aided by Chris Serpent," with the serpent paintings. Swing and Rudy Benda, per- "played" by his arm, was a If Hurok will bring Claude Kipnis back formed excerpts. veritable dialogue; "The again soon, we'll promise to find the space Jn the new work, Mr. Kip- Bottle" not only created the ni s has used Mussorgsky's virtuoso feat of an alcoholic to do them greater justice! underlying idea by bringing groping against the nonex­ the paintings of a museum istent glass of a giant bottle, (imaginary) to life. The titles but also offered the metaphor of the musical pieces have that alcoholism is a prisOJl.

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{ -··· I ·• l . ( \ 1pn1s: Entertcii ner ' ) ' with a m1ss1on• • · By BYRON BELT "Men and Dreams" in the off-Broa;iway Theatre de Lys. Claude Kipnis is hailed in his promotional material After spending · sever2l years as - artist-in-resid_ence. at . :· as •·one of the giants of contemporary theater." Since the University of Illinois, Kipnis no_w m~~s. his home the quote is from one of ·our own enthusiastic reviews 1in Brooklyn Heights, heading the mime d1VJs10n of the we can only reaffirm it with increased feeling now that American Academy of Dramatic •Arts in Manhatta~- the brilliant, young pantomime artist is launching an Kipnis. hirriself nev