Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24

which starts tomorrow with Palm Sum-
day, will find little of social interest
going on in the city. While society
does not observe Lent as in former
years, when there was little or no en-
tertaining from Ash Wednesday until
Easter, it does refrain from activities in
the week preceding Easter.
Easter Sunday will find all the fash
fonable churches - st. Thomas. ST.
Stuyvesant Square, st. James. Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian and othrs-filled
with prominent members of society, but
society will be missing from the famous
Fifth Avenue Easter parade after the
services. This. which used to be such
picturesque event in the city, when
all the faShionables paraded UP and
down the avenue, is thing of the past
and now society makes its way home by
motor in most cases.
The activities of Easter week will
open Monday with the wedding of Miss
Elizabeth Wyatt daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Christopher B. Wyatt, to William
Russell, son of Mr.. and Mrs Richard S.
Russell of Boston, at the Wyatt resi-
dence, IL Lexington avenue. Miss
Wyatt was graduated from Miss Cha
pins School and made her debut last
year at q dance at her home. Mr..
Russell attended the Middlesex School
and is now a master in the Brooks
School, North Andover, Mass
Easter Tuesday, Miss Dorothy Col
ford. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Sydney
Jones Colford, will become the bride of
Baron Pierre de Shirt of Paris It will be
a small wedding and will take place In
the Church of st. Vincent Ferrars
Miss Clara Colford will be her sisters
maid Of honor and Henry Seton of this
city will be the baron's best man.
There will be no bridesmaids or ushers.
Carney Potter Nuptials
An Event Of April 20.
One of the most interesting weddings
of Spring will be that of Miss Ella
Mary Potter. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Adrian Potter, who is to become the
bride Of Frank j. Carney on April 20.
Mr.. Carney is the son of Mrs. James
Stephen Carney and the late James
Carney.
Miss Fanny Potter, sister of the bride,
will be maid of honor. The Misses Lu-
ellie Winkoop. Mary Salmon, Gladys
Conner and Lucy Flynn will be brides
maids.
Mr.. J. Russell Carney will be best
man for his brother, and the Messrs.
Joseph p. Dolan, Hugo F. Ricca, jr.;
Herbert P. McCabe of New York and
Donald Charlotte of Connecticut will be
ushers.
The ceremony will be performed at
the Church Of Our Lady of Lourdes by
Mgr. Francis L. Carney, vicar general
Of the diocese of New Brunswick, Can
ada, and dean of Fredericton, uncle of
the bridegroom
A reception will follow at the home of |
the brides parents.
Mrs. Williston B. Lockwood of 40 |
East Sixty-second street has announced |
the engagement of her granddaughter, |
Miss Evelyn Bayne, to Henry M. Blank, |
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Blank of |
Glen Ridge, N. j.
Miss Bayne is a graduate of Miss |
Spence's school, class of 1923, and is a |
member of the Junior League. Her /
mother was the late Mrs. Bertha Lock- |
wood Bayne. and her father the late |
E. Norman Bayne.
Mr.. Blank is q. graduate of the Mas
:achusetts Institute of Technology, class
If 1918, and is a member of the Delta
Tau Delta Fraternity. He served as
captain of artillery in the World War.
Three Noteworthy Weddings
Scheduled for Early Dates.
The marriage of Miss Betty Foster,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Macmillan
Foster Of 1903 East Seventy-fifth street,
to Lloyd O. Vernon will take place
April 4 in st. James Episcopal Church.
On the same day Miss Edith Sterling |
Wood, daughter Of Dr. and Mrs. Francis
Carter Wood. will be married to Aubrey |
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil /
James Pershouse of Cheshire. England, |
In the Church of the Ascension, Fifth |
aYnue and Tenth street.
She wedding of Miss Frances Minturn |
fall, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry |
(iarion Hall Of IS Gramercy Park, to
Thomas Clark Howard takes place on |
Saturday Of Easter week.
These are only a few of the many |
weddings scheduled for Easter week. |
Several dances and charitable enter |
will take place during the |
week.
With the completion of plans, includ- |
ing many unique and striking features, |
the Charity Carnival of 1929, to be |
presented May in Madison Square, |
promises to rival the Beau Arts in |
splendor. A large number of society |
folk are interested in the event, which |
will be presented as an Aztec scene. |
in all the vivid coloring OF |
tnat perio0. Inc proceeds OF Lne auaH |
will be devoted to the Judson Health
Center.
Special attention will be given by |
those who attend to the headdresSes,
which will afford remarkable offerings |
in colors. They will be composed of |
brilliant combinations of feathers such |
as the Aztecs wore. The costumes also |
will.be of flaming hues, replicas of those |
which have lived in memory for centu- |
ries.
According to Mrs. Arthur B. Clafin |
and Mrs. Edward F. Hutton, honorary |
chairmen of the carnival, and DR.. |
Eleanor Anderson Campbell, the chair |
man, the members of the cast are asked |
to follow the costume suggestions of |
Lila Agnew Stewart, director Of the |
pageant Aztec Gold" The object is to |
bring about a general tone of dress, SO