Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
The Man Who Came to Dinner at the White House; White House History (Number 30) - Photo 1
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- Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
The Man Who Came to Dinner at the White House; White House History (Number 30) - Photo 1
Alexander Woollcott, drama critic, actor, and frequent White House guest, is shown here on stage in The Man Who Came to Dinner, 1939.
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