Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1936, Page 44

D—10 EUROPE AT BEST DURING WINTE Social, Theater and Sport Activity Picks Up in Fall. LONDON; October 31.—Now that Summer and vacations have ended, Furope has again put out its “at home” signs and is once more preparing for gay Fall and Winter life, the tryly cosmopolitan life which marks nat time of year. Europe's Summer attractions are diverting, but the real life of Paris, London, Berlin, Rome and other great capitals of Europe reaches its height only in the ‘Winter season. Just as no one expects to see the best plays and operas in New York City during the Summer, or to find gay social life in other cities, so Europeans do not expect to find their great centers at their best until the Winter months. In London Fall and Winter are the time for operas in Covent Garden and symphonies and concerts by the Royal Philharmonic, the London Philhar- monic and the London Symphony Orchestra. These months are the height of the social season, and a time of great activity in the theater, with interchanges of the best plays with New York City. The Winter months are also the height of the social season in Scot- land, where one of the most delightful sights for American visitors is a ball with the men in formal Highland dress. Rome Has Opera and Fetes. Travelers who do not visit Rome during the month of October miss one of its most beautiful seasons. At this time of year Autumn is just coming on, and the people of Rome make many short excursions from the city to the Castelli Romani, where they seek re- laxation, a good meal in the open air and a few of the delicious grapes which are just then ripening. ‘Winter months in Italy mean opera, of course, and the three great opera houses of the country—La Scala, in Milan? the San Carlo, in Naples, and the Royal Opera, in Rome—are now planning gala seasions. Fall does not lack religious celebrations, either, for the festival of the Madonna Della Balute, when bridges are thrown across the Grand Canal in Venice so that the crowds can reach the church where the saint is honored, will be celebrated November 21, and the fes- tival of St. Cecilia will take place the following day in Rome. Since the Winter Olympics of last year Germany has attained a new place in the world of Winter sports. ‘The Harz Mountains, the Black Forest and Bavaria are preparing elaborate events for the coming season, while the people of Berlin are looking for- ward to ice skating on the hundreds of lakes and waterways in the coun- tryside near it. Travelers who visit Berlin this Win- ter will find it a city transformed, for much of it was made over and beautt- fled for the Olympic Games. Paris, too, hangs out its “at home” #ign during these months. It has been said that to find the people of Paris in Summer you must go to the seaside resorts of Normandy and Brittany, but in Winter they are once more in their great capital and ready for Parisian life. That is the season of the opera and the Comedie Fran- calse, two of France’s greatest institu- tions, and it is also the time of one of the most picturesque of celebrations, St. Catherine’s day, November 25, when girls of 25 and over wear a lit- tle white bonnet to show that they are unmarried and parade through the streets of Paris. Winter is also the season of the French and Italian Rivieras. Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo, San Remo, Bordig- hera and other cities along the Medi- terranean are at their best then, and the fashionable world of the entire continent gathers in them to spend days enjoying the dreamy sunshine or playing a myriad of sports. To lovers of Winter sports, Winter is the “only season” in Scandinavian lands. Skiing, snow shoeing, skating and other sports have been popular in Norway and Sweden for hundreds of years, and more and more Ameri- cans are realizing the wonderful sports facilities these countries have. Switzerland and Austria are both today famous lands of Winter sports, and St. Moritz and Davos, in Switzer- land; Salzburg and Innsbruck, in Austria, are names to conjure with. Gay Vienna has attractions during Fall and Winter that the Summer tourist never dreams of. Its famed coffee houses are just as enjoyable at that season, and there are many balls, included the opera ball, the ball of the City of Vienna and the fashion ball. Night life is even gayer than in Summer, operas and concerts crowd one after the other, and the famous BSpanish Riding School, where travel- ers will see the finest examples of equestrian’ skill that Europe can pro- vide, gives weekly demonstrations all ‘Winter. FALL SEASON ACTIVE IN WHITE MOUNTAINS Hotel at Bretton Woods Revives 0l1d Custom of Bugle Call to Tiffin. WHITE MOUNTAINS, N. H., No- vember 1.—Life during the Autumn season in the mountains is most in- formal, but all resorts continue their weekly programs of contract parties, putting matches, golf events for the week end, motion pictures, dancing, keno and shipboard-style horse racing. One of the pleasant old-time cus- toms at Bretton Woods, restored by the manager of the Mount Washing- ton Hotel, is the bugle call to tiffin. ‘The bugler goes to the extreme end of the hotel porch and calls his clarion note that golfers and riders may reminded that the dining room doors #gain are open. At 1 p.m. and 7 p. people have come to listen for silver notes instead of consulting Pool Heats Itself. furnishes the electric power necessary for its extensive heating equipment. ‘The temperature of the swimming pool can thus be maintained at an even temperature of 68 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit. RESORTS. PENNSYLVANIA, sports. L] Reasonable rates. Lutherland, Pocono and Robin H BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, JR. CRIBBLINGS: Passenger vessels seldom visit St. Helena, Na- poleon’s island prison, which lies 1,200 miles west of the coast of Angola, Africa. The long one-story buliding in which he lived at Longwood remains; in fact, it recently has been rehabilitated. There is also a bell station, called into play whenever the dethroned emperor strayed too far in his walks about the countryside. The plot in which he was buried originally is surrounded by an iron fence. Oddly enough, the island’s improvements are financed largely from the sale of postal stamps, the chief revenue of the dot of land. About $30,000 worth are malled to stamp collectors the world over each month. The postmaster used to work on a commission basis, but his income grew so large that he was put on a salary and the profits earmarked for the island. Hamilton, Bermuda, is the world’s smallest city, yet as a port it leads Philadelphia, Montreal and Rio de Janerio. fortably seated in leather upholstered chairs, visitors in Atlantic City watch foot ball games played within the mammoth Convention Hall. There are 15,000 seats. Only two games are scheduled when Pennsylvania Military College will meet the University of Delaware, play La Salle College. Then the grid turf will be taken away and the hall prepared for the ice hockey season, opening November 27. | {USUALLY, tourists are routed in foreign cities 50 as to avoid their coming in contact with squalor and poverty. In Montevideo, one of the most beautiful capitals in the West- ern Hemisphere, this is unnecessary, as the city of practically 700,000 souls | has no slums. The gay metropolis is ltnmed for its walks of inlaid mosaics and lovely parks, wherein flourish some 800 varieties of roses and thou- sands of eucalyptus trees. Monte- | video's resort season is at its height |in February and March, when it is warm. Supplementing its ban on tipping !!n hotels, restaurants and trains in 1 an effort to make the country a pleas- |ant one in which to travel, Hungary | has introduced another novelty. Used to suspicious treatment and exacting customs officials, Americans crossing into Hungary say, when uniformed {guards board the train, “Well, here | they come again.” But they are offi- |cers of the government tourist de- | partment, and approach to ease the path of the traveler through passport |and customs formalities. Speaking | several languages, including English, they invite a thousand and one ques- tions on the tip of the stranger's tongue and act as portable informa- tion booths on coinage, places to see | and 999 other things. The largest bell in the world is “the | Czar Kolokol” in Moscow, but it has | never rung. It weighs 200 tons and is 54 feet in circumference. Shortly after it was cast the shed in which it temporarily was housed burned and | cracked it beyond repair. Among the many legends that flow through the Danube country is the one about Satan being bested by a | cock when the devil said he would dam the river between sunset and the rooster’s crow and flood the cas- tle at Schwallenbach, Austria. The cock, it seems, heard of the scheme, |crowed an hour early and left the low water the ridge of rock is pointed out to tourists as the Devil's Bridge. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, This are symphonies of goodness For reservations, teleph "ATLANTIC TRAVEL. 21 of the most fascinating ports Dressed in evening clothes and com- | this season, November 7, | and Armistice day, when P. M. C. will | devil with his job incomplete. At | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 1, 1936—PART TWO. The Traveler’s Notebook Scribblings About St. Helena’s Most Prosperous Industry, Hungary’s Corps of Border Greeters ood’s Epitaph. TE‘ sister ship of the Queen Mary is at present only a group of plans and part of a keel at Clyde- bank, Scotland, known only as No. 652. The American architect, Ben- jamin Wistar Morris, who served as joint architect on passenger accom- modations for the Queen Mary, has been engaged to advise on develop- ment of the projected super-liner. No. 552 is not expected to be ready for trans-Atlantic service until 1940. The Royal Winter Fair and Horse Show at Toronto, high light of the Fall and Winter season, will be held November 18 to 26. Pinehurst’s hotels and clubs have opened for the season. In the sequestered valleys of the Valais, Switzerland, the humble folk make the tumbling brooks work for them, though not through the me- dium of electric power. Water wheels are common, and are even used for churning butter. The butter barrel is attached to the wheel itself, goes over and over and comes out ex- cellently. | Rivaling ski-ing in Finland as a | sport is ski-joring. But, instead of | horses, used in the Winter resorts of Switzerland and other lands, rein- | deer furnishes the motive power. Because women are far in the minority in Tibet, the law permits them extra ‘husbands. CLIMBING up a hill in Kirklees Hall Park, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the tourist finds what is reputed to be the grave of Robin Hood. The fence-inclosed grave bears | another that you must be vouched for the inscription: ear underneath dis laitl stean las Robert Earl of Huntingtun, Neer arcir ver az hie sa gud, an pipl kauld im Robin Heud.” Viewing the procedure of the League of Nations is. possible for tourists, but so many stories on the visitor requirements are floating about that E. J. Braun, manager of the Ameérican Express Travel Service at Geneva, believes the formalities should be clarified in the minds of those who wish to see the Palais des Nations. He says: “Ome person tells you that you must know some one connected with the League of Nations, by & member of the secretariat, an- other that all that is needed is a pass- port. The fact is that if the visitor does not arrive armed with a letter from some one in authority, he may go to the visitors door, passing on the way the delegates’ entrance, where sentries scrutinize carefully all who come, and are waved to a room where a form is filled in, which includes the name of the person who recommends the ‘“visitor.” In another room two officials examine the form, the pass- port, and the visitor before the filling of a card of admission for & meeting or meetings. On entrance to the great hall of gray and buff, one views a high dais from which the person who presides faces rows of desks and chairs where the delegates sit. Be- low the president each speaker stands in turn to read his address, and next to him the interpreter who passes on sheet after sheet to a secretary below him. On the left of the dais are the seats of the press correspondents, and facing the dais are the galleries where | the interested public sits.” In a day and a half, a single one of the many curative springs at Carls- bad, Czechoslovakia, yields enough mineral water to fill 4,000,000 bottles exported annually. At the height of the season, visitors drink 23.500 glass- fuls, which represents the flow of two minutes. (Continued From First Page.) Russian government must remain an outlaw, to be destroyed at the con- venience of the Reich. Thus the central powers now have | placed on record substantially what |to Sir Robert Vansitart, Great Brit- ain’s permanent undersecretary of state, that Germany is willing to en- | ter into any non-aggression pacts with | her western neighbors; that she is | | willing to give every conceivable ;gulrnnty that she will not attack France, provided the western ally of | | Russia does not interfere with the | Reich’s plan for destroying commu- | nism at its source. “Germany must | not be interfered with when the time | | comes to settle her score with Mos- | cow,” said Der Reichsfuehrer, with { brutal candor, to the' somewhat as- tonished British diplomat. i The significance of the German- Italian agreement cannot be overs | emphasized, especially at the present moment, when the battle between communism and fascism-naziism is | taking such concrete shape. It is | especially of paramount importance Italo-German Alliance Is Peace Aim, but Also Blocks Russians Hitler said last August, unofficially, | | other million reservists can become | since the democratic states are un- decided as to their future action. While Great Britain is concerned over internal problems, and France is struggling with economic and so- cial difficulties, the two most for- midable military powers of Europe have managed to build a wall of steel between Eastern and Western Europe. With complete disregard for eco- nomic and financial troubles, the two authoritarian states, with a total popu- lation of 106,000,000 people, are speed= ing up their rearmament programs at a greater pace than the better financed democratic countries—Great Britain and France. 1,300,000 Men Under Arms. Italy at the present moment has 1,300,000 mep under arms. Her navy is mobilized in the Mediterranean and her air force is at “stand by.” An- fully trained members of the army within four weeks. Each of these reservists carries in his pocket the pink slip indicating precisely where he must go within & few hours after the mobilization decree has been | pasted on the walls of Italy’s towns RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. @ ATLANTIC CITYS DISTINCTIVE HOTEL | | | | | orrosiTE streL men HARRISON COOX . MANAGER «o green, iade, opal, and éolJ the season of color over the sea! When sun and sky and ocean give you their fullest beauty « « « and the air fairly sparkles with lifel Autumn at the Traymore! A season of glory—enhanced by the comforts of the Traymore's service! Sun- decks, spacious rooms, broad foyers, menus that + + « Will you enjoy it with us? Rates from $5 European—with meals. $8. ome District 3000 T TRAYMORE CITY TRAVEL. ROUND m=: WORLD $1033 First Class! Spend this winter abroad! 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Fifty-two new war- ships will be put on the slips in the Italian navy yards in the course of this year. They will be completed in record time—in less than 18 months. The airplane factories have been placed on a 60-hour-a-week schedule. Factories which heretofore have been producing peacetime goods for the home and for foreign markets will henceforth produce war materials. Ploughshares are being beaten into swords. Chemical factories are pro- ducing poison gas; automobile plants are delivering tanks, airplanes and motors. The appetite of the Italian people is being curbed in order that they may stow away food for the days when it may not be easily obtainable. Make Materials for War. The same thing is happening in Germany. For the last two years the Reich has been a huge arms factory. The German standing army, by the end of this year, will reach the same figure as the Italian Army. The Ger- man factories have been placed on a super-war production schedule. Raw materials necessary for the manufac- ture of arms and ammunition are being purchased abroad in large quan- tities. The German exporters are handing over to the government every cent of foreign currency they obtain A practically munition is being laid by for the day. ‘The martial spirit in Germany today was unequalled even in the heydey of Kaiserism. The formidable propa- ganda machinery of the government need no longer be used to inflame the Jingoism of the nation for a war against “the Russian brute”” The mysticism of fighting for an ideal— to crush Communism—is strengthened by the conviction of every German that & war against Russia cannot but end with a decisive and quick victory. The formidable military machinery of Germany and Italy reduces the possibility of complications with other nations, which are beginning only now to perfect their military preparations. And the reason why Hitler and Musso- lini decided to choose this moment to make public their close co-operation is that the Spanish conflict is entering STEAMSHIPS. its final phase—{full of dramatic pos- sibilities. ‘The fall of Madrid will not termi- nate the Spanish troubles. There will be Catalonia, the Asturias, the Basque territory and the region of Valencia to be conquered. These are hot beds of communism, and Franco's Moors will have a difficult time bringing them under the control of the junta. ‘The Moscow government, aware of the danger of being attacked by the Germans in the more or less near fu- ture, is determined to bring a show- down on the Spanish question. The Moscow leaders believe that if the next war is going to be fought on the basis of conflicting political philoso- phies, there can pe no better time than now, when the Spanish civil war is being fought because of these con- flicting principles. And the attitude of Moscow toward the neutrality agree- ment concerning the Spanish civil war is, in the opinion of European diplo- mats, a clear indication that the Sovi- ets want to lance the abcess before it bursts. Although chronologically, the Russian decision to bolt the neutrality pact antedates the German-Italian agreement, in fact, it is considered an answer to the Moussolini-Hitler an- nouncement. Everybody in Europe has known, for many months, that the authoritarian states were supplying the junta with war materials, airplanes and pilots. | It was equally an open secret that | the French and the Russians were rushing arms and ammunition to the so-called loyalist government in Madrid. It was done right under the | eyes, and with the consent, of the gov- | ernments which had signed the neu- trality agreement last August. The unexpected “holier-than-thou” atti- | tude of the Moscow rulers at first sur- prised the other foreign offices. 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