Evening star., 1936-04-13
EASTER OBSERVED.
IN GALA FASHION.
DESPITE DRIzzLE.
RooSeveItS Lead City in
Attending Church Services.
ParaderS Seen.
PRESIDENTS WIFE AT
SUNRISE MEETING
Youth Council Sponsors Sessions
in Sylvan Theater on Monu-
ment Grounds.

In a murky drizzle which could not
daunt the paraders Of the 1885 Spring
styles, Washington and its 100000
visitors yesterday celebrated Easter
and the resurrection.
Through the morning they crowded
churches, and 2.500 of the most am
bilious joined Mrs. Roosevelt. dressed
in sky-blue homespun, in the knights
Templar Arlington Amphitheater SUM-
rise service.
At IL am. Mrs. Roosevelt, wearing
the same costume, said by experts TO
be the color for 1886, with the Presi-
dent and their daughter and Son-in-
law, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boettiger,
pushed through jammed sidewalks to
enter st. Thomas Episcopal Church.
Every other church and chapel In
the city was packed, and shortly be-
fore noon the informal Easter parade
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cut avenue sidewalks.
DIR. Hart Is Speaker.
In the course of the Arlington
Amphitheater service at which the
Marine Band furnished the music,
Mrs. Roosevelt heard DR.. Oliver j.
Hart, rector of St. Johns Episcopal
Church, which the President attended
the day of his Inauguration. urge the
sunrise worshipers to seek new ideal
for their lives now cribbed by earthly
considerations.
Sitting in a box to the right Of the
open stage with her secretary, Mrs.
Malvina Schneider, Mrs. Roosevelt lis
tened and then stepped to the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier to place upon
it a tall cross of lilies.
Beside the tomb at rigid attention
stood two white uniformed knights
Templar, while shortly behind 1t were
massed 200 others, whose hats waved
with white plumes.
DR.. James Shera Montgomery, chap
lain of the House Of Representatives,
led the Arlington devotional services
which were climaxed by a hymn an
nouncing:
Jesus Christ is risen today.
Our triumphant holy day."
The story st. Matthew told Of the
resurrection in eight verses in the
twenty-fourth chapter of his book in
the New Testament was read by Rev.
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lain of the Grand Lodge Of the
Knights.
When Mrs. Roosevelt walked away
from the Tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier, where she had been escorted by
Eugene Thompson, chairman Of the
Grand Commandary's Religious Service
Committee, the Knights and the throng
broke ranks.
Visit Howe in Hospital.
After the ceremony at St. Thomas,
where the presidential family received
holy communion after an Easter
sermon by Rev. c. Ernest Smith, D. D.,
the rector, Mr.. and Mrs. Roosevelt
drove to Naval Hospital.
There they chatted a while with
Louis McHenry Howe, the White House
secretary who has been Ill for more
than year, and then returned to the
White House, where Bernard Baruch
last night was dinner guest.
To accommodate the great number
anxious to attend church yesterday,
the clergy of all determinations ar
ranged to begin services early.
At the same hour Of the Amphithe-
ater services, the Washington Youth
Council was conducting an Easter OBJ.
servance for Washington young people
at the Sylvan Theater in the Monu-
ment Grounds.
The Washington Cathedral services
began with holy communion at 7:30
am. At II am. Bishop Freeman
preached, and again at 4 pm. there
was a festival evensong.
Soon after dawn the joyful masses
in Catholic churches began. One Of
the most glorious was celebrated at
the Shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception, Catholic University, where
the Right Rev. David T. O'Dwyer, d.
AOSVOAs pACdSAICQ.
Re-enactment Of Burial.
A solemn ceremony was the re-en-
actment Of the burial of Christ, done
by the Franciscan Friars at their
Brookland Monastery in conclusion
Of their holy week observance, before
Benediction of the Most Blessed Sac
rament at 3 pm.
BY nightfall the mass Of Easter visi-
tors to the Capital was lessening as
trains, buses, automobiles and air
planes whisked them to their homes.
The cherry blossoms, now fading
and thin-petaled, attracted IL. .446 car
loads yesterday, the park police re-
ported. The motorists formed an end
less, moving ring about the Tidal
Basin, trimmed by the Japanese trees.
The gray ceiling" frowned at the
gay costumes worn yesterday for the
first time. The fashion creators this
year called for a display of black and
blue outfits.
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