Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY SALLIE V. H. PICKETT.

Washington has to great extent
lost its once gorgeous Easter parade,
but there are always enough notable
folk, especially diplomats, who make
1t well worth while to tarry along the
street near st. Matthews, on Rhode
Island avenue, near St. Johns Church
on Lafayette Square or in the vicinity
of other churches, where congregate
for Easter service the heads of the
mighty. Older inhabitants recall the
procession of gaily caprisoned horses
and handsome carriages that bore
coats of arms on their doors that once
formed dense line down Connecticut
avenue and past the old British en-
bassy or along Massachusetts, avenue
or other prominent streets with their
fashionable passengers leaning out to
greet their fashionable friends who
chose to walk
Nowadays it is a general scramble
to keep from under the wheels of
automobiles, which travel far too fast
to recognize the passengers With
but few exceptions the Catholic diplo-
mats attend st. Matthews and st.
Patrick's handsome edifices. while ST.
Johns and other Protestant churches
are we'll patronized. Mrs. Roosevelt
end her family will attend service this
morning as well as make a trip to
Arlington for the sunrise service.
The grandchildren of the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt are in great state
of excitement over the egg rolling to-
morrow, and they have already tried
out the lawn on the south front of
the mansion, perhaps looking for the
nest of Scamper. the White House
bunny, about whom their young
mother has written so charmingly.
They each possess a Scamper bunny
all dressed up in the finest of rabbit
clothes, and with a tidy little note
dictated by their mother tucked away
in the bunny's pocket. Then too,
there is a big rst-aid tent erected,
as usual, on the lower side of the
lawn for the use of the thousands
of little children. who will be allowed
to venture out tomorrow.
A youthful spirit will pervade the
entire social scheme for this week,
and Mrs. Roosevelt and her household
are particularly interested in the per-
formance at the Belasco Wednesday
night by the Hasty Pudding Club of
Harvard. "Hades, the Ladies" gives
the actors unusual play for their tai
considerable part of the social
scheme for the greater part of the
week Mrs. Roosevelt will have them
at the White House for tea. and
among the guests who will feel most
interest will be Theodore Roosevelt,
Sd, and I. Med. Garfield. whose fam
lilies have themselves been tenants
there. Mrs. Roosevelt also is a pa
troness for the Cornell Banjo and
Mandolin Club which will fill Con-
stitution Hall Friday evening with the
friends and admirers of Cornell stu
dents.
Keeping along with the youthful
atmosphere that pervades the week
will be the dance tomorrow night at
the Sulgrave Club for Miss Louise
Crane, daughter of Mrs. Crane and
the late Senator Winthrop Murray
Crane, when Miss Cranes auntS. Miss
Mabel Boardman and Mrs Frederic
A. Keep, will be hosts. Gay, indeed,
will be the cabaret dance in the
same environs Wednesday, when the
Hasty Pudding Club players will be
entertained. A sail loft dance at the
navy yard Friday night has a gay
sound for the young officers and their
friends in and near Washington, and
the Friday Evening Dancing Glass,
that most popular of dancing organi-
cations, will hold several hundred
society folk enthralled.
Saturday night the postponed
Three Bachelors ball, with three of
the very popular unattached diplo-
mats of the Italian embassy as hosts.
will be given. Friday evening and
Saturday afternoon will be greatly
given over to the charming presen-
tation of Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs," a musical fairy tale, in three
acts, to be presented by the Girl Re-