Evening star., 1935-05-21
SHRINE PARADE
SEATS co ON SALE.
Roosevelt Will Review Pag-
cant From Stands on
June 13.
President Roosevelt will review the

President Roosevelt will review the
parade and pageant of the Shrine
imperial conclave Thursday night,
June 13, and will receive at the
White House the Board of Directors
of the Shriners' Hospital for Grip
pied Children sometime during the
previous week.
This was announced today by Rob-
ert P. Smith, director general of the
Shrine convention, who explained also
that Mrs. Roosevelt will receive at
the White House the women of the
Imperial Divan and wives of repre-
sentatives Of the Imperial Council
on June 13.
President Roosevelt, however, will
be absent from Washington during
the first part of the Shrine week as
he is scheduled to present diplomas
to the graduating class at West Point
Military Academy.
President Roosevelt. who Is men,
ber of Cyprus Temple, Albany, N. Y,
is understood to be particularly in
terested in the work done by the
Mystic Shrine at its numerous hos
pitals for crippled children through
out the country, the nearest one to
Washington being at Philadelphia.
Seats on Sale.
Seats for the grandstands along the
line of march for the Shriners' pa
rades went on sale officially today at
Almas Temple, Director General
Smith announced as he made public
for the first time the prices and
specific locations of these seats.
These seats will run all the way
from intersection of Pennsylvania ard
Constitution avenues westward on
Pennsylvania avenue, north on Fiji
teenth street past the Treasury De-
partment and west on Pennsylvania
avenue past the White House to q
terminus at Seventeenth street.
All these stands will be available
to purchasers for the entire week Of
June to Is, at any time of day or
night The three principal events to
pass in review along this line of march
will be the official opening escort pa
rade Tuesday at 10 am. when for the
first time the thousands of Shriners
with uniform bodies in gay colors and
their picturesque bands will sweep up
the Avenue to signalize the opening
of the annual session.
The second parade. on Wednesday
night, will be the official uniformed
bodies night procession, when gorge
Gus Illuminated features will add bril-
lance to the occasion.
Pageant to Pass.
The climax of the convention and
series Of parades will be Thursday
night, when President Roosevelt from
the stand in front of the Write House
will review both the Shrine bodies and
a glamorous pageant of IL episodes
moving intermittently throughout the
line of march.
The prices for the grandstand seats
vary from $3.50 to $3.50 each for the
entire week. The highest prices pre-
vail in the covered grandstand in front
of the White House Grounds between
East Executive avenue and West
Executive avenue, where the range Is
from $7.70. So 80 to $3.50.
The most elaborately decorated Sec
tion of the parade stands will be from
Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets,
where many Oriental designs and
figures in high color will lend the
Shrine atmosphere to what has been
officially called the Pavilion of
Omar" The seats in this pavilion are
covered from East Executive avenue
to West Executive avenue.
The prices along lower Pennsylvania
avenue are $3.50, $40 and $3.50, in
cluding the section along Fifteenth
street and In front of the Treasury
up to East Executive avenue. The
uncovered section from West Executive
avenue to Seventeenth street will be
$3.50.