February 18, 1930
[Released February 18, 1930. Dated February 17, 1930]
I CONGRATULATE you cordially upon the 3,000th performance of the Mission Play which so vividly recreates the atmosphere of California's romantic early history.
HERBERT HOOVER
[Mr. John S. McGroarty, c/o The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California]
Note: The message was read at the 3,000th performance of the Mission Play, aproduction depiciting the development and decline of Spanish missions in colonial California. Mr. McGroarty was the author.
Herbert Hoover, Message on the 3,000th Performance of the Mission Play. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/211388