Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
Good Friday. Commemorate
ing Crucifixion, SoIemnized
at Special Services.
SINGING OF CANTATA
TONIGHT is FEATURE
Joyous Celebration of Eastertide Is
Planned for Capital, With
Weather Mans Help.

Good Friday. day symbolic in the
Christian world of commemoration of
the death of Christ, was solemnized
throughout the city today. While special
services were in progress in many
churches for three hours this afternoon,
beginning at noon. employees of busi-
ness houses, Government departments
and department stores, as we'll as thea
ter patrons were reminded of the hour
Of 3 o'clock, when the Savior died, and
paused for a minute of silence.
Mass of the presanctified was held
ut o'clock this morning at the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
on Catholic University campus, in which
100 students of the Sulpician Seminary
took part, while services at the Fran
: ciscan Monastery, in Brookland, which
began at 9 o'clock yesterday morning
with a solemn high mass. continued
at the same heur this morning with
generation of the cross and the mass
of the presanctified THE Funeral of
Christ will be held in the monastery
at 8 O'Clock tonight.
Choir to Sing Cantata.
1.-THE Seven Last Words" cantata
bv Du Bots. will be sung at the Church
of the Epiphany tonight by the choir,
under direction of Adolph Torovsky.
The final midday Lenten services con-
Quoted by the Washington Federation
Of Churches were held at the First Con-
gregational Church at Tenth and G
D
pastor of the New York Avenue Pres
byterian Church. officiating. Rev. Jason
Noble Pierce. pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church. will speak at serv-
ices tonight attending the final show
ing at the church Of the picture. The
King of Kings"
Special Good Friday services will be
held tonight at Grace Lutheran Church,
Sixteenth and Valtlum streets, and at 5
o'clock this afternoon similar services
will be held at All Souls Unitarian
Church. Sixteenth and Harvard streets,
and the First Universalist Church.
Coincident with services marking the
end Of the 40 days Of Lent plans were
going ahead for joyous celebration of
the coming of EaStertide. Pre-EaSter
reports from department stores indi-
Gated that Easter fineries will be much
in evidence with a certain amount of
helpful cooperation from the weather
man on Easter morn.
More than $4,000 children Of the
public schools of the District, in adj
dition to several thousand parochial
school pupils. are enjoying their Easter
holidays, which will run through until
Monday, April 8.
The great Easter morning service
scheduled to start at Walter Reed Hos
pital at 1880 o'clock, the largest of the
kind to be held east of the Rocky Noun
tains, will be featured by a living
cross" formed by 600 Red Cross work.
ers, Army nurses and Medical Corps
doctors dressed in white. The service
will be held in the amphitheater of the
hospital. There will be a sacred con-
cert by the United States Army Band.
The Easter message will be given by
Col. Edmund P. Easterbrook, chief of
chaplains, United States Army. The
program will be broadcast by radio Sta
ton WRC. In the event of unfavorable
weather the service will be held in the
Red Cross house.
Huston Thompson, former Federal
Trade Commissioner and president of
the Washington Young Mems Christian
Association, will deliver the principal
address at the annual sunrise Easter
services at Temple Heights Easter
morning, under auspices of the Wash
1ngton Federation Of Churches.
Union Plans Services.
The Epworth League Union of the
District, the Episcopal Young Peoples
Society and the Christian Endeavor
Union of the District are cooperating
with the federation this year in holding
the services.
The services, scheduled to begin at
z o'clock, will be heralded shortly be-
fore that time by the Christian En-
deavor trumpeters, led by L. c. Green.
DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of
George Washington University, will
preside at the exercises.
The remainder of the program will
include a brief address by Merritt l..
Smith OF the Christian Endeavor Union,
on "CruSading With Christ; invocation
by L. !. McDougle of the Epworth
League; Scripture reading by A. w.
Sperry. representing the Episcopal
Young Peoples Society; group singing
| led by Percy S. Foster, and the closing
prayer and benediction by Rev. DR.. j. C.
Palmer. pastor Of the Washington
Heights Presbyterian Church and grand
chaplain of the Grand Lodge of MasonS
in the District of Columbia.
The Capitol will be opened Sunday
from to 4:30 o'clock to accommodate
the usual throng of Easter tourists, it
was announced today by David Lynn,
architect of the Capitol.
More than 5000 persons visited the