Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-28

Bristol, known to thousands OF
Americans, has obliterated It's name
but not changed, which seems TO sat
lsfy all concerned.
At kempinskfs, which is, I believe
the largest restaurant in the world
and takes care of 10000 persons al
one meal time, though not at one
sitting, the prices for certain dishes
are said to have been advanced since
the war about 10 pfenngs (2is
centsl, and not beyond that.
Until this week had not been IN
Berlin since Christmas ana the only
change | notice is that the town seems
brighter and the spirits of the people
higher. The frock coated hotel clerks
ore as bored ana as majestic as ever
and the natives as ready To subject
a Foreigner to a slow and not too
cordial scrutiny
The department stores some OF
which are on an American scale, are
crowded. Work on the extension of
the subway in Friedrich strasse goes
on as If there were no war ana good
progress Is being made ON the new
buildings OF the vast pergamon.
The government has been spending
this spring the usual sums on new
pictures for the galleries. An enor-
nous amount Of gardening is being
done on the great plains around Ber-
lin.
And this dinner loving town can
still buy Il long course dinner for 9
marks Gl2O, exclusive Of Wine.
This meal is served from 3 O'Clock
until S. From until 1890 a supper
is served for 4 marks.
The best show IN Berlin for the
Americans comes at | o'clock IN the
afternoon, when the hand and the
soldiers march down inter den Lin
den for the changing of the guard at
the palace
Military Spectacle.
That is a pretty sight but the bit
of military spectacle that is truly inn
pressive may be encountered almost
any hour of the day when regiments
swing through the streets to the rail-
way stations-the men as beautiful
~ equipped as they were in the won.
derful days of last autumn.
Such perfection and such thorough
ness of detail as you see to this day
that Germany has now for nine
months been at war with three great
powers
All Is so taut, so trim, so workman
like. the hair covered knapsacks SO
assuredly waterproof, the boots so
stout and so carefully oiled the he'll
NETS so bright. the horses SO sound,
and the MEN so solidly bunt and so
serene But there is plenty Of life in
their step,
Fourteen opera houses and play
houses Of the first class are open.
Carmen" ana "Mignon' are the most
popular opera bills and always sell
out The three current Shakespear-
can bllls-alternated from week to
week at the Deutsches theater-are
The Winters Tale" Midsummer
Nights Dream" and THE Merchant
If Venice"
These performances are usually sold
cut, Reinhardt is the director. To
IN American who has lived a long
line in Germany | said that, in view
If all the chauvinism there Is ram
pant in the world today it seemed
'ather remarkable that Shakespeare
should still hold the boards in Ger
many.
Not at ALL said he, they regard
him as a German. In their opinion
he English only produced him, while
he Germans discovered him"
can believe it, for | have never
orgotten the entire seriousness with
Which Leo Ditrichstein once looked
lip from the pages Of SchlegcPs trans
alton Of Hamlet" | think II was,
md said
what a pity it is YOU can't read
In German
German play-goers can readily