Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

MI So will have charge OF the
NV services at the Masonic and
Eastern Star Home this
afternoon at 8 o'clock, when
Rev. John j. Queally will conduct.
Automobiles will be in waiting at
the lodge hall at $50 and at George
avenue and Rittenhouse street to
convey visitors to the Home.
Aiasons and their families will be
especially welcome.
This evening at s o'clock Albert
Pike Lodge, No. SO, viii attend SER
vice conducted by its chaplain, Rev.
III Dimon, at ST Andrews Eplsco-
pal Church, New Hampshire avenue
and V street northwest.
Unusual interest is being nantes
ted in the Masonic Fraternal Assem-
bly,, Thursday evening at o'clock,
in the Eastern Star chamber in
Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and
New York avenue.
This meeting, to be held under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge
committee of education and service,
Past Grand Master c. c.. Coombs,
chairman. is the first of three assem-
blies ordered by the Grand Lodge
10 be held during 1927. Grand Mas
ter Gratz +. Dunkum of MaSonS in
the District has signified his inten-
ton of attending with all the Grand
Lodge officers.
The program will include a short
address of welcome by the grand
master, several selections by the
Masonic Glee Club after which the
assembly will hear Past Grand Mas
ter Melvin f. johnson of Massachu-
sets. who is coming to Washington
for the express purpose of address
ing this meeting. Past Grand Mas
ter Johnson is internationally known
as a student and authority on mat
ters Masonic. especially Masonic
history, and his address is eargerly
looked forward to.
The meeting will last one hour
and half All Master Masons,
both local and sojourning, are in
vited. Admittance will be by good
standing card.
An entertainment will be given to-
morrow evening by Mount Vernon
Chapter No. 3 in the Chapter chamber,
fourth floor. Masonic Temple imme-
diatly following short business ses-
sion. All masons are invited. Old
time refreshments will be served, 1t Is
announced.
Osiris Lodge, No. &c, viii hold a
special communica ton at 7:30 pm.
Wednesday in fine Auditorium of
the Masonic Temple New York Ave.
and 18th SITS. NV. which will be
known as Marine Corps Night" On
this occasion the degree will be pre-
scented by members of the fraternity
who are members of the Marine Corps,
assisted by a team from the Gavel
Club. Invited guests. include the grand
master and officers of the Grand
Lodge, members OF the John A.
Lejeune Lodge of Quantico. Va; Maj.
Gen. John A. Lejeune and Past Grand
Master Callahan of Virginia.
Grand Master Dunkum will ad-
dress the meeting of the Washing
ton Centennial Study Club tomorrow
evening. His subject will be De
signs on the Trust Board for 1927"
Other topics for the evening are
Symbolism of the first degree" by J.
r. Magill, I'VE build as speculative
Masons," by Charles Worden, and
Masonry" by Major Frederick w.
keough. All Master Masons are in
vited. The meeting will be convened
at 7:30 in lodge room of the Ma
sonic Temple.
The Scottish Rite bodies will open
their Spring reunion at the cathedral,
Third and T. streets northwest, Tues
day evening, April 5, with the fourth
degree of the rite, followed by the
ninth degree. Wednesday evening,
April 6, the fourteenth degree will be
presented: Thursday. the fifteenth de-
Z gree: Friday, the eighteenth degree;
Monday. April IL, the thirtieth and
the Tuesday following, the thirty-sec-
ond degree.
Thursday, April II. at 7:3O pm. the
Maundy Thursday observance will be
celebrated at All Souls Church, where
also the Easter Sunday rites will
take place.
The Cathedral Calender of the rite
states that a permanent building COM
mittee has been created, consisting of
the present heads of the four co.
ordinate bodies of the rite, the pres
ent board of trustees, the deputy for
the District and the secretary of the
local bodies, empowered to borrow a
million dollars, to choose the type Of
building and to proceed at once to
erect and equip a building for the
rite on the property owned by the
rite at Thirteenth and X streets
northwest. This appears effectually
to have settled the question of the
building at an early date of new
Scottish Rite cathedral. Edward =.
Morey, deputy for the Supreme Coun
Gil for the District, states to the mem
bers OF the rite, to whom II Is adj
dressed: Our temple will not burden
you financially" in urging the loyal
support of every Scottish Rite Mason
TO the Temple Heights project for
United Masonic Temple and the honor
of preserving for Masonry that mag
nificent site in its entirety for all time
to come.
81 I A
nounces that this lodge will entertain
the guests and the children of the
Masonic and Eastern Star Home in
the near future. A. DreSner is In
charge of the entertainment COM
mittee for the Masonic and Eastern
Star Home. f. A. Ostrow is chair
man of the card party which is TO
be held Thursday evening at the jew
ish Community Center The audi
forum will accommodate 400 tables.
large attendance has been provided
for.
Brightwood Commandery, No. G,
drill team will hold a special meeting
Tuesday evening at Brightwood Ma
sonic Temple. Important business to
all members Of the commandery will
be taken up at this meeting.
The dramatic club of the drill team
ard the ladies' auxiliary will present
play in the near future.
A May dance, the last dance Of the
season will be given Thursday eve
ming. May 8, at Brightwood Masonic
Temple.
Gen. Amos A. Fries. potentate of
Almas Temple. announces that plans
are under way for the Spring Shrine
ceremonial Thursday, April 81. The
seating plan Of Arcadia Auditorium.
at Fourteenth and Park road. will be
t.ar nj ..f 80
nobility will be able to see and hear
,acrfacfIr and rI,i1ly farilif if.s for