Evening star., 1934-04-05
SUNRISE FESTIVAL
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Diplomatic and Social Cir
cleS to Be Up Early to
Greet Blossoms.

The breakfast scheduled in diplo-
matte, official and social Washington
on April 10 is quite evidently going
to be something of a problem.
That is the day of the opening of
the Cherry Blossom Festival, and the
festival will be inaugurated with
sunrise ceremony in which the small
children of all patrons and patron
ssses will be invited to take part.
Dressed in Japanese costumes, the
children will welcome the rising sun
In q manner appropriate to the SYM
bolism of American friendship with
Japan, in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Sun Rises at 5:28.
The almanac says that the sun will
rise at 5:28 that day, and SO promptly
at 5:28 the ceremonies will begin. The
patrons and patronesses of the festi-
val are drawn from WaShington's dip
lomatic, official and social life. The
Is children of the various members of
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take part in the sunrise exercises.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of
the patronesses, has informed the
Festival Committee that the sunrise
ceremony is the one she would par
ticularly wish to sponsor, and has
promised that if she is in town, she
will attend As far as is known now,
she will be in Washington for the
festival.
The Festival Committee and its
many subcommittee are working
rapidly to assure the success of the
many events packed into the three
day festival.
Completion of the program for the
horse show was announced today by
the chairman of the Show Committee,
Col. c. L. Scott. This event begins
at 2 o'clock April 10, and continues
without interruption until after 5
O'Clock. There will be no long waits
in between events, which will be run
off in rapid succession.
At 2:30 the horsemen will parade
before her majesty, the Queen of the
Cherry Blossom FeSti, a., Miss Eleanor
Roosevelt. In the parade will be men,
bers of the Washington riding acad-
emies, polo teams in costume, work
horse teams, cavalry and field artil-
lery, hunt teams. including men,
women and children in regulation
hunting costumes, including pink coats
Then there will be competition in
the hunter class over a course of
eight jumps 3la to 4 feet high; a
parade and music by mounted cavalry
bands; competition in the ladies
hunter class; exhibition of several
packs of foxhounds: a hunt team COM
petition; an exhibition ride by troop
of the Sd Cavalry; junior hunt COM
petition Tor children in hunt costume;
a high school exhibition by a dressage
horse being prepared for the 1896
Olympic games. and finally, a course
OF II jumps over barriers 4 feet to
4 feet inches high.
To Stage Horse Show.
The horse show is to be staged in
the foot ball fields southeast of the
Tidal Basin. Admission will be free
There will be 5000 grandstand seats
on sale at SO cents each and on the
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ber Of boxes (six seats each) at 81
apiece. The free standing room will
accommodate some 10000 persons.
Edgar Morris. chairman of the Fire
works Committee. announced that ap-
proximately 5000 seats would be on
sale for the elaborate fireworks dis
play planned for the night of Friday,
April 20
The air circus, which had been ten
tatively scheduled. has been called off
and another event will be scheduled to
take its place.
A loud speaker system will be ar
ranged so that the thousands of per-
sons expected to attend the cere-
monies can all hear what is going on.
The plans have now advanced so
far, according to Curtis Hodges, pro-
motion manager Of the festival, that
nothing save unfavorable weather can
prevent complete success. The latest
word is that the cherry blossoms will
be out some time between April Is
and April II, so that, given favorable
weather, they should be in fine fettle
for the festival, which lasts from April
19 to 81.