Louis K. Sidney, director of stage productions for the Capitol Theatre and Loeaw’s Circuit, and Boris Morros, managing director of the Paramount Theatre, will head the program committee for “Night of Stars,” the gigantic entertainment and concert which will be presented at the Yankee Stadium on Thursday evening, September 20, for the relief of German Jewish refugees. Nathan Burkan, chairman of the amusement division of the United Jewish Appeal, under whose auspices the production will be staged, said yesterday that a fund of $100,000 will be realized from the production.
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