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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24
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eighteen or twenty cents; the elabor- ate, real dejeuner, or luncheon, fifteen frances Cat the present exchange rate of eight cents, but SI.2o) and the seven course dinner, exQuisitely cooked and served, seventeen francs (SI.36).
 You could go to less magnificent places and do even better. Three of us dined in a lovely little restaurant in the Latin Quarter, sumptuously on soup and fish and duck and straw berries, goodly variety of vegetables to boot, and with e quart of good champagne thrown fin, and our total bill was under S6-6o. Champagne at the eight-cents franc costs only from $2.25 to S2,50 a quart.
 A shave that in Paris cost me one franc, in Cologne cost one mark. The barber bowed to the ground when I gave him a tip of two marks. The entire transaction had cost me less than two cents - and I had had a peach of a shavel
 As one goes further East the prices drop still more rapidly. In Vienna one gets an excellent dinner, with g. simple wine, for seventy-fve cents; in Buda-Pesth it hardly exceeds sixty cents; while in either Belgrade or Bucharest almost precisely the same meal will not cost more than twenty five or thirty cents, American money.
 Finances for the AdOemtasre
 With real understanding of the increased value of his dollar, the traveller can begin to make fairly definite plans for his journey over seas. always begin, myself, by first deducting from the total sum which is available for my European jour ney, an emergency fund-say, twenty per cent of that total.
 This will serve to answer the pur- poses that its name indicates-the unforeseen contingencies of illness or accident. It is we'll always to have 1t available; even though I suspect that in the final few days of your great adventure, you will be tempted to spend the greater part, if not all of it, in some single purchase-an eternal delight it will be when brought back to the United States as a lasting souvenir of that adventure. If you do not do this very thing, you will not be entirely human.
 From the eighty ser cent that re-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

scost as follows; Special messenger to the State Theatre to buy tickets, $ cents: two seats in a parquet box, so cents; taxi cab for two from hotel to the State Theatre, one mile Gin a rainstorm), 12 cents; hearty supper for two after the performance, with two large mugs of real Prisoner beer, 40 cents; cab home, Is cents; fees to various attendants, walters, doormen, etc, cents: total $1 .62.
 In German restaurants you hear or chestras that play superbly, and would not defile their art with jazz. The loveliest strains of famous com- posers are none too good for these players. In the hotels are orchestras that would make creditable concert organizations in America.
 Contemporary art in Germany shows no change from pre-war stand ards. Anyone can buy exquisite land scapes, figure studies, still life pie lures, historical compositions; any thing that is wanted, in any German art dealers gallery today, for prices at exchange rate that ordinarily would scarcely pay for the heavy frames in which the paintings are set.
 (Next article; Inexpensive Inns and Trips.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

mains of your budget you will next deduct your steamer fares in each direction Gin addition to your tips. which have already indicated), a few dollars for minor steamship expenses. as well as your railroad fare and other travel expenses in the United States up to and from your ports of debarkation and arrival, respectively. And at this point, of course, your passport and visa charges.
 The residue is what you have to spend in Europe. always take this sum and again deduct another ar bitrary amount-say $10o or $2O0- for my railway fares over there. That done know about how much I can spend on myself-hotel or board ing house rooms, meals, cab fares, lit tie side trips, laundry, camera films and their developing and printing.
 All these can handle in a real degree of comfort upon an estimated expenditure of SIP day; like a prince can I live at SI5 a day. It will cost me more to stay in very large cities, such as Paris or Brus- sels or London-possibIy Rome and Geneva-but when I come to the smaller places, I even the score
 A good room at fifteen francs ($1.2o) a day in the best hotel in Bordeaux, is typical. Even at as swagger a resort as Nice and in it's finest hotel house without q su- perior, even at our own Atlantic City T had last spring a fine room, over looking the sea, with private bath, at fifty francs (S4.00} day. They asked 100 francs, but I cut them in half, and they held no grudge against me. The tavern keeper overseas, actually seem to prefer a sharp bar gainerl
 In the great new hotels of Madrid and Barcelona I paid for similar ac- somewhat higher rates; forty Pesetas (S7.20) a day. But, I could have found excellent taverns in both cities at one-third of that cost. It was not necessary that I should have had de E,sre accommodations. There were plenty of others available.
 Cheap TraUeE in Germany
 For an American travelling in Ger many is actually cheaper than staying at home. Any American with 8 small income can live handsomely in Ger
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24
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TN the days before the coming of
 the Great War the question of
 A the varied moneys In Europe was @ matter of much perpleaity to the unseasoned traveller who ventured overseas. Yet, his perplexities were as nothing compared with those of the unseasoned traveller of today. In those old days the exchange values of the currencies of the different lands were pretty firmly fixed. The pound sterling of England, Scotland and Ireland stood at S4.s6; the French, Swiss and Belgian francs, the Spanish peseta and the Italian lire were approximately twenty cents
 Today all is changed Not only is all changed, but constantly is chang ing day by day and hour by hour. Within the past few months the pound sterling has been as low as $3.60, and as high as S4.8o. The French franc has ranged from just under seven to little over eight cents. The Belgian franc has done little and the Swiss very much better. The peseta wavers at from thirteen to fourteen cents, but the lire goes at bare six. And the German mark has gone lower than POO to the dollar, and still ffuctuates between 100 and 200, while the Austrian kronen have sunk almost to the hopeless state of the Russian rub1e. All to the greater perplexity of the traveller, who needs must watch the exchange table in his morning newspaper no matter upon which side of the Atlantic he finds himself.
 Dollars dt q Premium Abroad
 Yet the traveller has his reward in the almost uniform strength of the dollar Do you know what the French franc at eight cents means to youe have already shown 1t to you In f1rst-class railway fares at little over two cents q mile. You can ride all the way across Paris in taxicab "a distance of four miles or more for forty or fifty of our Yankee pen nies, and across Berlin for about I2 cents. .....-
 The room which two of us held last summer fin one of the newest and love1iest hotels of the French capital "a really superb room, with its crack ling open fire, its private balcony, looking down upon the boulevard, its twin beds, its telephone and its private bath-cost us but $5.25 a day, for two.
 Its meals were in consonance. The early breakfast-the coffee and rolls end . bit of fruit-was as nothing,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

many on the same amount that would barely carry him through at home. If he has leisure, a taste for music and a liking for German cookery, he can pass his time agreeaSly in any German city.
 Germany is ready and willing to take good care of travellers, even on the basis of the depreciated mark. Her hotels are well filled with tour ists who are taking full advantage of the extraordinary values offered them through low exchange
 So far as the casual observer can see, German hotels are just as good as they have ever been, and just as well managed. The food is good and ample. The beds are clean, and the service civil and willing. Everything is done for the traveller with kind of determined thoroughness.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

A full course dinner with Q bottle of good wine in most frst-class res taurants costs about 50 cents. A business mems lunch, substantial and well cooked, costs about B cents. Beer is abundant and good, a large glass costing two cents. Fine wines cost about 12 cents a bottle.
 Railroad travel, like everything else, is very cheap. The ffrst-class marks, costing a recent American traveller about S1.45-and the distance is more than 25O miles. On this jour ney the guard will telegraph ahead for dinner, which, at a junction point, is put into your lap on a warm plate "a well cooked chop, fried potatoes, bread and cheese, and a tart. The cost of such a meal, with large bot tie of excellent Rhine wine, is con
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24
European Sho1U
 Places in NetU Guise

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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24
Portrait of "Pie" Traynor, and action photo of Rabbit Maranville.

From Hot Springs comes the ru- nor that Rabbit Maranville, vet eran shortstop and considered one of the best shortfield men the game has produced, may be displaced at that position this year by a younger gent, one "Pie" Traynor. The ru- nor goes that the Pirate bosses have decided that Traynor,s bril- liant playing last year and the fact that he is a youngster still com ing mp outweigh Maranvihe's call on the job The Rabbit would go. A aecoi
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

TN the days before the coming of
 the Great War the question of A fhe varied rnopevs in F1Irore was
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

: Penn State university has two chances oe contributing a valuable addition to the roster of the Amer ican league champion Yankees Glenn Killinger and Henry Luther "Hinkey" Haines. Killinger is the famous quarter of he Penn grid team of last year. Haines starred in the backfeld of the 1920 eleven. He is PitcheE.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24

THE RIVIERAy Fashionable folk, gorgeous costnnes, the zesagss S{pp5itg O. the shore, etc.! Bat here fs tIe backgromnd-o peasant 1vo1nds, her child aud
 Her stock inz ztrade. siderably less than 50 cents toF an American, while the guard apo1ogizes for being obliged to collect four marks extra-a matter of two cents or so-for the telegram ordering the dinner,
The Washington times., 1922-10-30

1t was found that the present
day styles of sweeping drapen"s
and side panels were just reflec.
tions of the court costumes Of tn"
Tudor period.
One of Miss Davies costume
copied from an old print in th'
museum. is of green chiffon velvet
embroidered in silver and white
1t has two long cape-like panels
hanging from the shoulder. II is
easy TO see where the designers
got their ideas for the modern
cape effect in dresses. Women OF
today can get many valuable ideas
from the charming costumes in
when Knighthood Was in
Flower" For instance. the undcr.
sleeves OF the gown referred 20
are of white georgcttc banded IL
silver and the bodice is of silver
crossed by jeweled bands. An.
other lovely costume worn by Mis-
Davies is OF pale apricot chiffon
embroidered in pearls and worn
over silver cloth.
Rich. heavy brocades; cloth OF
silver and gold. jewelry of spectil
design TO accompany each gown
all of these things formed a riCn
rainbow riot in the Costuming d.
partment of the Information
studio in New York where much
of the picture was made.
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
Charles Ray In
"Deuce of SpadeS''

r + you have been asking your
self where, oh, where are the
l. strong-hearted boys OF the
ten penny thrillers OF yester. year,
make response in your own voice.
and say Right in the movies"
The good old dramah OF the he
gambling shebangs out on the
Montana edge OF the old west Is
what Charles Ray has chosen for
his latest Offering AT Crandall's
Thcater this week. II comes we'll
labeled. too-"The Deuce OF
Spades" it's very name in.
triguing to every sinner whose
digits have Caressed the fifty-two
spotted symbols OF fate and for.
tune.
Out of staid Boston, where he
sells his sinkers and cupakoffee,
and into the hollow Of a western
showing point, Ray takes his
picture customers on n swift
cooks tour OF the stuff that made
Prank Merriwell a best.seller not
go far back. It's a swift cook g
tour literally. too, for Charlie
does his heroiCs this time in
kitchen garh. and his rise in the
community is swift enough 10 be
complete
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
"Rags to Riches
at Rialto, Story
of Wide Appeal

A PICTURE OF general appeal,
~ and especially interesting to
boys. and all who have once
been boys. is the production be.
ing shown at the Rialto this
week.
The picture. an adaptation OF
the famous stage play by Charles
A. Taylor, is not a story Of the
struggle Of poor boy. as the
title, Rags to Riches" would
suggest, but is. rather a "Riches
to Rags" story Of a pampered
rich boy who would give his
birthright for a chance to be n
regl'ar fellow.
During a certain age. excitement
turks In the veins Of every red
blooded boy. When mad youth
feels the call Of wild adventure,
something is likely to happen.
In this case II did happen, and
plenty of II even more than the
young adventurer expected; but
what a time. Oh. Boy! From a
wealthy household. to a band of
outlaws, then as O rover. and H.
nally on the farm. this reckless
youth shows US an adventure re-
plete with thrills and excitement.
Besides the main plot. there is
woven into the story romantic
counterplot. making a beautiful
love story: and an epicycle deal
ing with the readJustment Of a
disharmOnious domestic life.
OF the well selected cast Of play
crs. Wesley Barry Is especially
deserving OF commendation for
the manner in which he played
the leading part. This inimitable
youth actor, whose career has
been marked by rapid rise to
stardOm. has established him.
self as favorite among movie
fans.
In addition to the feature film.
there is a good comedy entitled.
Entertaining the Boss" Fea-
turing Mr.. and Mrs. Carter De
Haven: and the latest Fox news
reel.
a special selection. The Jolly
Robbers" by the Rialto orchestra,
was we'll received by the audi
ence yesterday afternoOn.-Smith
Weller
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
Irving Cummings
To Screen Classic

RVING CUMMINGS. the inde.
pendent picture producer. is
Il about to film one OF the
classics. The Last Days OF Pom.
peii," from the story OF Bulwer-
Lytton. will be made into
spectacular special production.
After making painstaking
search OF literature Tor = story Of.
fering the greatest opportunity for
spectacular features. and a. the
same time possessing "A beautiful
love theme. Cummings Aas selected
The Last Days OF PomHsii as
being the ideal vehicle. lie Ia at
present working out q series OF
spectacular lighting effects 10
make the scene showing the erup-
tion OF Mt. Vesuvius. real
thriller.
THE Last Days Of Pompcii' will
be the third OF Series OF super.
features to be released and dis.
tributed by the Principal Pictures,
the others being Elnor Glyn's
romance OF Hollywood picture life.
THE Worlds q Stage" starring
Dorothy Phillips and Chicago
SAL with an all.star cast headed
by Alice Lake and Milton Sills.
The Bulwer Lytton tale has been
filmed before. An Italian company
made the production about ten
years ago. However. while tho
backgrounds were magnificent and
some OF the acting very good, and
II was something OF sensation
at the time. probably If shown to.
day 1t would appear third rate.
An all-star cast IL being as.
sembled to play the principal roles
and II is expected that many
months will be spent in filming
the picture. Whether Mr.. Cum.
mings himself will play one OF the
roles Is not yet settled.
Besides his screen work Cum.
mings is well known in Washing.
ton,
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
Pieces of Eight,
Broken Hearts,
On Palace Menu

IF the fascination Of hidden
treasure. the allurement Of
Il the romance OF beautiful
Spanish girl and an American ad-
venturer thrown across her path
ny some fantastic whim Of Fate
and the cOlorful setting of an old
Spanish castle possessed OF real
live ghosts are to he considered in
determining a good picture. then
we will say that THE Ghost
Breaker" at the Palace Theater
for the current week is above the
average.
With cast Of Wallace Reid and
Lila Lee supported by Walter
HERS. the dispenser OF laughs.
Arthur Carewe. J. f. Macdonald.
Snitz Edwards and Frances Raw
mond, we think the only plausible
adverse criticism that can consist
tently be made even by the most
cxaCting Is that, well. II is a little
short
Now DOna Maria Teresa. who
has been left n castle. but very lit
tie money by her father, wishes TO
determine whether the rumOrs OF
hidden treasure in the old castle
he true. But the charts necessary
to her search are in America. and
thence she goes TO secure them.
Don Louis. her cousin. also
wishes to secure the treasure and
comes seeking the charts. but ar
rives too late since they have al
ready fallen into the possession OF
DOna Maria.
As the beautiful Dona Maria l'es
sleeping. Warren Jarvis. having
shot another in self-defense In n
crowded hotel. bursts into her
room n fugitive from justice. 1r.
rcsistibly, they are drawn togeth-
er by net Of love and intrigue
in their efforts to help each other.
Thus IN trunk, Jarvis Is taken
aboard Dona Maria's steamer. and
sets forth to conquer ghosts and
to seek chests Of gold. And in the
end. he who started out to become
n Don. took the happier alterna.
tive and a Donna instead.-W. s.
Poagc, jr.
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
Hoffman Revue
Well Equipped In
Youth and Grace
T2RTRUDE HOFFMAN, and
" her dancing Hoffmannequins
fill both eyes.

" her dancing Hoffmannequins
fill both eyes.
The old boys who happen to be
married to the ladies they escorted
to Hello Everybody" at the Be
lasco last night may not have ad-
mitted that. but they'll be admit.
ting it to their friends today.
Not since the Belasco went into
the borderland of burlesque have
the boards of that strutway met
up with the graceful toes of a COM
pany 30 talented as Gertrude's cor
poration Of terpsichore.
True. the beauty of womanhood
Is not concealed to any great de-
gree throughout the three.hour
sally. and mayhsp that fact makes
one forget TO watch execution
closely. but there remains no es-
cape from the inevitable reaiiza.
tion that real artistes are present.
Far easier is II to say that the
Hoffman, company never stops
moving than II Is to report the
whirl Of scenes and effects in de-
tai. Comedy-possibly not quite
enough TO completely relieve the
abundance OF daneing-is ushered
i'm by Harry and Willie Lander.
But-personal thanks to the Ian
der boys-their stuff is not thumb
marked with age.
One suggestion is offered. Sing
ers and not dancers should do sing
ing numbers. Gertrude Hoffman,
should let Harry Lauder do the
only impersonation of that gentle
man. Certainly Harry Lauder
would not attempt to initiate Miss
Hoffman,. even though the Scots
man frequently appears in partial
negligee.
Leon Barte ably assists Miss
Hoffman, throughout. but the
best x-OffiCe assistance on dis
play Is her surprisingly pretty and
outhful ballet.
&. l.. MEREDITH.
The Washington times., 1922-10-30

some ln.nS hUI III tne atteHtlOn tl
the populace which likes to won
der. what in the name of heaven,
Is coming next. The stage YER
sion has more flavors than a
brides first cake, and for some
of them there is no reason ex-
cept that the stuff was on the
shelves.
There Is a prologue wherein
lady Ethel. pursued by bore who
wants to marry her, is defended
by a gentleman of the kings high
way, but before echo of the last,
Have done. sirrah' fades away,
the cavalierly thug is shot by the
kings own men, dying as Ethefs
eyes tell him he has met his first
love.
Then the play proper. Two hun.
dred years later, a descendant OF
the old freebooter steps from
balcony in n strange h"us" ana
wrests from Ethel a pistol sh" is
about to use on herself because
she Is soon to mother nameless
child. Ethel's celestial ancestor
was the lady fair befriended some
centuries back. How this chap
arrived on the balcony at the prop
eT moment VIII luHh III NY 'N'i
with the celebrated Hall case.
How, also. he manages to do the
other things he does; marry Ethel
TO save her name; Illustrate the
genuises of the wheat trust in
their attempted corner of the world
market and snap his fingers at
crises which would freeze Arsene
Lupin. Young King Brady. and
Nicky Arnstein together-how he
manages to do these things find
answer only in the Imagination
cultivated to an Arabian Night
level
Cyril Scott is quite too suave.
too sure Of himself too oilily po-
lite to clothe his character with
verisimilitude. Ottola Nesmith is
good with what she has TO wrestle
with. The most natural acting in
the cast 10 by Franklyn Dawson
as the father Of Ethel. The 9th
ers are mcntionable.
To finish the sketch, events
dovetail in the last act as they
did two centuries before. Gregory
Wells. clad in ancestral togs for
n costume ball. bids goodby TO
Ethel-both in love-and as she
turns TO leave him. each con-
WINGED love cannot surmount the
obstacles Of his mode of lffe. the
Jealous suitor sends bullet crash
ing through GregOry's brain. ns II
were and he expires. while Ethel
beRs him to I've to love her.
The Washington times., 1922-10-30
Spanish Ghosts.

WHAT kinds Of ghosts would
" naturally infest Spanish
castle? How would they be
dressed? This was solved by
Director Alfred Green. directing
THE Ghost Breaker" Wallace
Reds new picture at Loew s
Palace. by dressing all his screen
spooks up in armor. Being medi.
eval spoOks. II is natural to assume
that they wore medieval costumes,
Green argued, so that's the way
IL went.