The Washington times., 1935-06-08
100000 MOBILES
EXPECTEDFOR
GALA WEEK
Special Trains, Buses, and
Planes Bring Visitors; Ample
Housing Ready
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reservations. In addition to the
clerical force Of some fifty per-
sons, about 100 Boy Scouts and
members of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Boys Clubs of the city were
drafted today to act as guides to
show the visitors to their Wash
ington homes. No estimate of the
number who already have secured
reservations is available, since
there has been no time 70 survey
the cards filed.
Seats Sell Fast
Robert P. Smith, potenate of
Alma Temple and director gen.
eral of the Shrine committee, to-
day reported that tickets to the
stands from which $4,000 per.
sons may watch the two parades
and mammoth pageant which &C
company the convention are go
ing fast. The seats range in
price from $3.50 to $11, which
prices include all three events.
Mr.. Smith said:
"When you buy a ticket for
. seat in the stands, that seat
is yours for the week. You can
even sleep in it if you want
to-"
He explained that even when
the parades and pageants are
not actually in progress, music,
announcements and reports OF
events all over the city will be
coming over the amplifiers over
all the stands, and that anyone
in the stands may sit in their
seats and listen.
Pageant Set Ready
The pageant committee reports
that the first of the huge "sets" on
which the screens of the pageant
will be presented has been CON-
pleted.
AS Washington today vel
coined more early arrivals, the
first groups Of the thousands OF
ShrinerS who will descend on the
city early next week for the orders
annual convention, word came
from the pageant committee that
the first of the huge "sets' on
which will be presented the scenes
of the pageant is completed.
The set is that for the "Mys-
teries of Egypt" scene. and is in
four pieces, which will stretch
along $50 feet Of Pennsylvania
Avenue during the show. Others
are being completed rapidly.
On the set will be more than 100
actors, dancers, Nubian slaves,
gong bearers and musicians. who
will descend to the pavement as
the caravan stops, present their
part of the show, remount and
move along to the next group OF
stands. This procedure will be
followed by all 10 scenes OF the
pageant.
Temple of Isis
The large setting includes the
Temple of Isis, two sphinXes, and
the gerat Egyptian god Harpa-
chruti-with the face of a cat.
The Shrine hospital board, hold.
ing the first preliminary meetings
of the convention. yesterday dis
cussed the problems of its organi.
Zation, and was received by PreSi-
dent Roosevelt at the White
House. The session continued TO-
day, so that it might be finished
by the time the convention proper
begins.
The board is headed by w. Free.
land Kendrick, former mayor Of
Philadelphia.
Council Meets Three Days
Next weeks program, aside from
the "fun" events, will open with
a meeting Of the Shrine Record
ers' Association Monday.
Tuesday, wednesday and Thurs
day there will be meetings of the
Imperial Council-which includes
delegates from each of the 159
temples of Shrinedom and the i'm
perial officers-but for the most
part the program will be made up
of music, laughter, fanfare and
frolic.
The three parades will follow
the same route from the interSec.
ton of Pennsylvania and Constr
tuition Avenues, along Pennsyl
vania Avenue to Washington
Circle. The professions are sched-
uled for 10 a. m. Tuesday, and 8
p. m. Wednesday and Thursday
nights. The Thursday night pa
rade will be followed by the
pageant.
DignitarieS Here
Among the dignitarieS already in
washington are the Imperial Treas
urer, j. C. Burger, of Denver; I'm
perial Recorder j. H. Price, of
Richmond: Imperial Chief Rab,
ban Hugh Caldwell. of Seattle:
Imperial High Priest and Prophet
Walter Sugden, of Sisterville, w.
Va: Jack McGilvray, past poten-
tate of Islam Temple, San Fran.
cisco: Past Imperial Potentate ].
S. McCandless. of Honolulu;
James Watt. past potentate of
Cyprus Temple, Albany. and Ar
thur Chapman, past potentate
and member of the hospital board
of trustees, from Winnipeg; Judge
Clyde Webster, Assistant Imperial
Rabban, of Detroit, and Earl
T~ller. past Imperial Potentate, of
Les Moines.
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