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glamorous setting for I 1935 KENTUCKY DERBY k- 4 LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 9. Determined to make the 1935. Kentucky Derby the most glamorous and spectacular in all the history of the sixty-one year old turf fixture, Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of Churchill Downs, is reaching out for innovations almost certain to give it the most extravagant and colorful setting ever attempted in connection with an event of its kind. This year the Derby festival, opening five days before the race and rivaling the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, -a convention of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, pageants, masquerading and almost innumerable musical entertainment specialties are new features in connection with the Derby and Derby week. Yesterday Colonel Winn announced the engagement of Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees to play in the Downs clubhouse all of Derby afternoon. High government officials, including postmaster general James A. Farley, radio, stage and screen entertainers and civic and sports leaders from the country over, are coming to the 1935 Derby in larger numbers than ever before. According to the program arranged by Mrs. Anna Friedman, named general chairman of the Kentucky Colonels gathering by Gov. Ruby Laffoon, Colonels Day will be observed at Churchill Downs on May 3. Invitations to approximately 3,000 members have been mailed. Mrs. Friedman is the wife of F. F. Friedman, manager of the Kentucky Hotel in this city. A series of parades, each with upwards of thirty-six floats and 10,000 or more mas-queraders, receptions, dances and dinners are programmed in connection with Derby festival week.
