Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05

VdlS! seems 10 DC tne
appropriate cry for the
- thousands of Americans
young ard otherwise, who are wildly
spending. last moments turning many
dollars into American EXPIRES:
checks, getting passports vised and
packing their toothbrusheS plus
ready to embark and try the souls
OF deck stewards on transatlantic
steamers. fusSing about deck chairs
and blankets, Ell route to Europe
Provided, OF course, they don't get
seasick. If they do. they will try
more stewards Souls-but not deck
stewards.
1t was in 1924 when tourist third
class" came into being through a
combination of immigration laws
cutting down the usual passenger
list for that class and a realization
of the possibilities thus afforded for
ambitious college youth to see Eu-
rope" on the part of a couple of the
most enterpriSing and wideawake OF
American universities. There were
less than 5000 young Americans en-
barked in the new tourist class that
lfISl year. LuSt gSdl tlISlS WIN
$4,000. This year the steamship COM
panies have estimated that they will
carry at least $4,000. The groups now
going tourist" however, are much
more diversified. There is still the
college group and its. younger
brother, the graduating class of
American high school youth. Also
there are many professional young
people whose talents have not yet
been recognized to any great hnan-
cial extent. and there are many
teachers who take advantage of this
opportunity.
However, as the other more adult
groups tend to increase and dominate
the student groups in this huge tour
ist third-class traffic overseas, the
attitude in which they go is increas-
ingly one of studiouS desire to ex-
perience and have opportunity to APP
preciate the intangible assets that are
designated as European culture"
The day has passed when Americans
went to Europe merely to see such
Curiosities as the Leaning Tower of
Pisa. the Eiffel Tower of Paris. the
crown jewels in the Tower of Lon
don and the huge beer vat, the larg-
est in the world. in the cellars of the
old schloss at Heidelberg. Even the
group which goes to Paris primarily
for period of riotous gayety in the
Montmartre district is comparatively
small. There are, of course, certain
types of students who go over with
the happy go-lucky attitude of find
ing. "a good time," students who
spend their time doing crossword
puzzles when they might be looking
out of the train windows at beautiful
scenery, and who spend time clus-
tered around tables writing post
cards to folks back home on board
the little Rhine steamers, with their
backs to the impressive ruins which
the boat passes on both shores, until
somebody shouts that the Mouse
Tower is in sight or the Lorelei
However. there are hundreds of
others who are amazed and intrigued
at the things they find in Europe.
Most OF all, it is heartening to find
how many more of the thousands 60
ing this year are making reservations
ahead with plans to attend the music
festivals. Business men and women
and lust folks" are making such
reservations, in addition to the stu
dents who do so because it is consid-
cred "a good thing for them" and the
people who have more personal in
terest in musical productions. Never
until this year has it seemed feasible
to have European Festival Asso-
cation especially to provide tickets
Tor performances at festivals in every
country abroad, practically, to large
CRAPS of Americans who are not
primarily musicians. Music is coming
into its own. In a few years, per-
haps, it will be placed on as high
level IN the general public interest as
base ball, tennis tournaments, boxing
bouts and other similar information
ally recognized endeavors.
Tor those who are interested in
L securing detailed information
about the performances of different
works to be presented in the various
foreign music festivals this Summer,
the following headquarters of the
European Festival Association, Jules
Daiber, American representative,
Steinway Hall, ll3 West Fifty-sev-
enth street, New York City. is given.
The Washington representative is
Theodore F. Cannon. 716 Twentieth
street, this city. Festivals included
under the auspices of this associa-
ton are: The Shakespeare Festival
Plays at Stratford-on-Avon. Eng
land. July II to September 10; the
particularly famous iftieth anniver-
sary of the Bayreuth Wagnerian
Festival, Bayreuth, Germany, July 1o
to August 20; the annual Mozart
and Wagnerian Festival at Munich,
Germany, July 70 to August 26; the
Salzburg Dramatic and Mozart Fes-
tival, under the direction of Max
Reinhardt, Salzburg, Austria, July
80 to August %; the Fifth Interna-
tional Music Festival at Frank
fort -am-Main, Germany, June II to
August g. .and the Festival Plays
at Heidelberg, Germany, during the
months of July and August. Inter-
nationally famous dramatic stars,
operate singers, conductors and or
chestral players will participate in all
the festivals
In addition TO this list, there also
will be the Three Choirs Festival at
Hereford, England, September 40.
inclusive, when an orchestra and
chorus of about $50 people will pre-
sent famous musical works of re-
ligious character, both by old mas
ters and modern composers. includ-
ing among the latter Vaughan Viii
liams and Gustave Hoist. This will
be the goth meeting of the Three
= Choirs of Hereford, Gloucester and
Worcester.
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