New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1929, Page 14

‘SEVILLE CITY OF NANY TRADVTIONS Delies Modernism by Retaining 0ld Costoms of Living Washington, D. C., Jan. 18—A Spanish city where shawls and man- tillas are current fashions will greet | Americans attending the Interna- tional Exposition in March at § ville, Spain | According to a bulletin from the | Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society, Seville, on the banks of the Quad. alquivir River in southwestern Spai is the last large city in Spain te defy modernism by retaining the old customs and modes of living. i Seville Is “Storybook” City “During the day life in Sevills centers in the main shopping street, | the Calle de Los Sicrpes, or Street of the Serpents,” the bulletin con | tinues. *Shop: cig arettes and lac e | S e e e it streets, are filled with Sevillanos | sipping chocolate, coffee or lig and absorbed in dominoes. Occs sional bronze skins, coupled with | hawk noses and flashing eves, be-| of Moorish descent. eville of y or a feast; y th Spanish city | from the | in day is particula of tradition. Peasants countryside come into town their rustic finery. Brilliant vie with just as brilliant embroider- ies in the ¢ s of the wome i The Sevillanos themst more | restrained in their costumes, Some | of the women display intricate coif- | fures, othery have Parisian shingles, | but all of { /m wear lace mantillas. Tourists disover that the women of | »\llh\ have not lost wielding a fan provo The Home of the Bullfizht “The most popular spot in ville on ays is th arena, Plaza de Toros. It is recorded that the first bullfight ever staged took place in Seville in 1405 in the Pl del Triunfo, to celebrate the b of a son to Henry 1I of 4 though bulifighting spread through Spain and parts of other European ountries, Seville remains its home. The Sevillanos are its most arde devotees. The toreadors are not t least colorful features of the spe o el R |purpose of studying and maping Searle, Girl Reserve committee| A daughter was born to Mr. and e SRR e ‘ . X‘G;ezf Symphony Hall| th northern air route. |chairman, and Mrs, Donald Cau-|Mrs. Stuart §. Porter of 183 Linden they make vivid figures in the \‘L'_'““ il Germany, Jan. 18.) The last merial expedition was|fleld, Girl Reserve secretary, to|street at New Britain General hos- e e his 1)nurnalwrmlly famous sp‘x“forced down at the Bay of Koliu-}Hartford on Saturday. | pital today. Mvana, & suburb of Scille, Ll $000 have its own symphony|chin. It s planned to establish a| Girl Reserve clubs from New Miss Nellie Reed of 1443 Stanlcy aoran e SGuadurauivie, s va.| concert house under the direction of | number of bases, particularly at|London New Haven, ~Hartford, [strect fs fpending the winter al* hoeand for 14 potCrc wich show| jerhart Hauptmann, novelist and | Petropaviovsk, the mouth of the|Bridgeport, White Plains and New | Palm Beach, Fla. dramatist. Hauptmann and Burgo- | Lena river, and at Dixon Cape. Britain will be represented at the alkyian lodge, O. of V., will a decided Moorish influence. T kets are made of reed and g The people of Triana are Gitan or gypsies, and their lively suburb echoes as often fo castanets as 1o | the potter's wheel. “While Seville, in common with other large Continental cities has electricity, tramways and automo- biles, 1t is not o modernized as| Madrid. English is practically con. fined to the hotel keepers and | French is seldom heard. Architectural Attractions | “Among Seville's architectural at- | tractions are the Cathedral, the Al- izar and the Giralda. The Cathe- dral, which i3 a huge example of inodified Gothic, houses some of | Murillo's paintings. The house of | Al-Kasr, the Alcazar, a Moorish pal- ace, suffers by comparison with the Alhambra at Granada. The Giralda, | a bell tower of Moorish origin, Is| Seville's most beautiful monument. At its base lies the Court of Or- anges, where orange blossoms per- fume the air and a fountain, erect- ed by the Moors, still plays. Holy Week Festival “Church_festivals in Seville cul- | niinate at Faster, following the usu- a1 Holy Week observance. Visitors 10 the International Exposition will | this year see this ancient festival, which dates from 1507. Beginning Palm Sunday there are processions every day untll Good Friday. Holy Thursday night the procession pass- ng the entire night. From twenty-five to thirty brotherhoods participate. The members wear dis- tinetive uniforms, many of them monkiike habits designed in medie- val times. “Holy Week ends with ceremones in the Cathedral Easter morning. ster afternoon the Se- villanos top off the festival with a gala bullfight which is the classic | of the season.” German School Offers Course in Americana Frankfort On Main, Jan. 18 (P — Che problems of the United States solemn | Daughter of _thel “Holy Devil” Daughter of Rasputin, whom some callod Maris Rasputin ting in a play which revea s in her father’s amazing life. i monk de terlin a vil, chapt czar e and h years befor Russia’s evil is now ‘mad monk” figured prominent- | y in the decline and fall of the mo\ family in the mmal 2 revolution. | t Rus |German Resort Plans ‘the holy master Feiseler of Baden-Baden hold jointly the chairmanship of the association charged with erect- ing the new building. American and other foreign art- ists are frequently heard here dur- ing the concert season. STEWART WILL NOT | FORECAST OUTCOME | (Continued from First Page) time. The organization is behind me | and the board of directors is behind | me. This is a very strong lrlu-‘ ment in my favor. “I prefer not to say definitely that | the directors resent Mr. Rockefel- | ler's attitude, but I will say that; they are strongly in favor of me” | Commenting on the report in to- | day's New York Timestothe effect | that John D. Rockefeller, Sr., had come to the aid of his son, Colonel | Stewart said he would not believe | the report until he had seen ‘“un-| questionable proof.” | ! “I have been with Mr. Rockefel ler for 25 years,” said Colonel Ste art. “I have given him and the com- | pany unquestionable support and T have no intimation that he will not! support me." 1 Told that Howard F. Sutherland, alien property custodian, who by vir- tue of his office, holding the voting | | power of more than 12,000 shares of ! Standard of Indiana, has assigned the proxies of that stock to Mr., Rockefeller, Jr., Colonel Stewart as- | serted: ! ! “Mr. Sutherland does not know | a single member of the organiza- | tion and I am confident that he| | made no effort to investigc'e the af- | fairs of the company before taking the pc .on he did. I ~n sure that |it he had made an investigation he {would change his stand in this fight.” ’ Pleasant Trip Colonel Stewart concluded his in- | | terview with reporters with this sen- | tence: “I sincerely hope that Mr. Rocke- | feller, Jr., will have a nice time on "% his visit to the Riviera. ;RHSSIS Wants to Find A Northern Air Route Moscow, Jan. 18 () —The aviation !and chemical defense society of Soviet Russia has decided to make ‘fur!her flights into the arctic for the and the West Indies. |at Havana Were the three pictured at the top, left to right: |hart, Ambassador Noble Brandon Judah, and Mrs. G. Grant Mason, Jr. | wite of the Havana manager of the new air line. T. Rojas, daughter of Cuban Secretary of War Rojas, Is shown as she which will be flown over the Fan-Americarn {‘chrlltencd the plane “Cuba,” NEA Havana Bureau air route. In This City March 15-17 |, |Ing Florence Markham and Edna Kieffer were appointed delegates from New Britain to help plan the mid-winter Girl Reserve conference. | They will accompany Mrs, Kenneth 15, 16 and 17. City Items | Cuba marked with erthusiastic ceremonies the inauguration of regular | airplane passenger and mail service between the United States, Havanu Representing the United States in the ceremonies Amelia Ear Below, Senorita Esther Girl Reserve Conference ;mrflmg ‘The midwinter conferen~: will be held in New Britain on March About 100 out o: At the last interclub council meet-|town girls are expected to attend for the first time form the subject | | of a popular course of lectures at| the University of Frankfort | In eleven weekiy discussions, which began in December and will last through February, America is being glven a horough examination by professors, parliamentarians, edi- tors and under-sccretatries of state, almost all of whom have visited the western hemisphere, Among the lecturers are ex-Minis- ter of Finance Peter Re Under Secretary of Bergmann, Profess of the Berlin Insti n, and Member of derich Dessaucr, the Reicl he Life of the PARTY Erenvbodys Fovorite Semi- Annual Sale Reductions . 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Gaffney, is ill at her home on Vine street. Judge W. F. Mangan of Bassett street is slightly indisposed at his home. The Young People's society of the Second Advent church will meet in the church this evening at 8 o'clock. Miss Tinti Is Captain of Pinnacle Qumtet The Pinnacle club basketball team has elected Mary Tinti captain and Sally Neetup manager. The follow- | ing girls are playing on the team: Mary Tinti, captain; Sally Neetup, | manager; _Monica Tinti, Penna | Abraham, Dora Cararini, Helen Ko- | val, Anna Honis, Mary Ottimar, | America Rasponte, Corinne Seraval- | 1i. Helen Yuniskie. The uniforms will be green and | white. The girls are doing some hard work and expect to play out- | side teams soon. Wednesday night | | | is practice night and Friday night instruction under Miss Efchstaedt. | Any young employed girl interest- ed in jolning a basketball team should sce Miss Hayes at the Y. W. C. 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