Evening star., 1932-03-25
LEGATION TO FETE
SOVEREIGN
Minister Here to Hold Recep-
ton on Birthday Anniver-
sary of King Fuad.

Rejecting the courtly pomp of q
people whose civilization dates back
through hundred centuries, lega-
ton in Washington tomorrow will drop
all current affairs to participate at a
distance half way around the globe in
Its mother country's greatest festival.
The occasion is the birthday ami
versary Of King Fuad Of Egypt. The
sovereign will be 81 years old March
26. All Egypt will spend that day in
celebration, and those of high degree
will be received at the royal palace in
Cairo. That cosmopolitan city OF
100000 people will don gala attire, as
will the entire country, and Egypt will
enjoy a glorified Mardi Gras.
While King Fuad is receiving the
plauditS of a nation the legation of his
country at 1901 Massachusetts, avenue
will pay tribute to the King. 1t will
be joined by Egyptians of lesser rank
IN the United States and by representa-
tives of the United States and other
governments, the clergy and heads Of
higher institutions of learning. In
greatly lessened degree but with no
lessening of solemn ceremony the most
important official fete in the land of
the Pharaohs will be duplicated in
Washington.
Pkan ceremony mere
At Cairo King Fuad will hold re-
ception in the Hall of the Throne at
the palace. where members Of his fam
ily, cabinet members, representatives OF
the diplomatic corps, bearers and hold
ers of royal decorations and dignitaries
and notableS from every part of Egypt
will be received. In the evening the
palace will be brilliantly illuminated
for the royal ball. and dancing will be
the order in public places.
In Washington Sesostris SidarousS
Pasha, Egyptian Minister. will stand
beneath the portrait of his sovereign
at the legation. and with Nine. Ally
Ismail Bey, wife of the first secretary
of the legation. receive representatives
of President Hoover, Cabinet officers
and their wives, members of the State
Department and Of Congress, the Diplo-
matte Corps, the clergy and the Army
and Navy. Supper and q ball will
follow.
The birthday anniversary Of King
Fuad will be for the monarch q cele-
bration of the completion of q quarter
of a century of work in establishing and
building an Egyptian university at
Cairo, where already stands an Ameri-
can and other institutions Of learning.
For him. too, the year is significant for
the nOldlDR OF an luLeTUAblOIl6l COQBTeSS
on navigation and another on cotton,
as well as one on Oriental music, to
which composers from all parts of the
world will journey.
President Invited.
King Fuad became Sultan Of Egypt
In 1917 with the death Of his brother,
Hussein Kamil. He was proclaimed
King March IS, 1922. on the termina-
ton of the British protectorate and the
recognition of the independence Of
Egypt. He rules a country where once
the Pharaohs were mighty and which
was once a province of the Roman En-
pire. His predecessors include the
names Of Harun Ell Rashid, the Sultan
Saladin and, most famous Of all, Cleo
patra.
Locally invitations 10 the reception,
supper and ball have been extended to
President and Mrs. Hoover and their
secretaries. members of the Cabinet and
their wives, State Department repre-
sentatives, members of the Foreign Re-
lations Committees of the Senate and
House Of Representatives, the DipIo-
matte Corps. the Archbishop of Balti-
more and the Bishop of Washington,
the presidents Of local universities and
cfhcers OF the Army and Navy.