Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-22
BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

Mr.. Albert Henry Washburn of Mas
sachusetts has been Minister to Austria
since that nations separation from
other Kingdoms, which resulted from
the World War. M. Edgar Prochnik
first as diplomatic agent and then as
charge d'affaires, has served during the
same interval, and In both capitals each
envoy is equally well known and es-
teemed. Minister Washburn began his
career in Germany when the former
dual empire was the firm ally OF its
Teutonic neighbor, and added to the
supreme advantage of complete I'M
Outstanding Of the language is that OF
comprehending the past and present OF
the nation. OutWardly Vienna Is little
changed from the brilliant capital OF
the Hapsburgs, and In the matter of
musical events 1t leads Eastern Europe.
The valiant and patriotic Richard
Strauss leads his orchestra part of the
season, and the opera Is presented with
all the eclat which marked the days
when Franz Josef and his court made
a dazzling appearance in the royal
boxes. Mr.. and Mrs. Washburn, as do
all the officials Of the republic and OF
the diplomatic corps, make the opera
the main vehicles of entertainments.
Vienna has always been and seemingly
will continue to present glorious pag-
eants, accompanied by the most tuneful
music and by nlarvels in the way OF
ballets. One or two such vary the
weeks program and receive vociferous
applause from the crowded opera house.
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DR. Richard Meister, who was familiar
o. students during the years following
The World War in the tireless efforts
not to permit the cultural ties to be
severed, during the past Summer had
his third course in the venerable old
university where so many medical stu
dents from this country had obtained
their higher degrees. Not alone are the
medical classes crowded but through the
energy of the Austro-American Institute
of Education the opportunities possible
have penetrated into every district where
student travel club catalogues are
studied from october until June. Both
as to tuition and living expenses vi
emma makes attractive proposals. In
addition there is its wonderful situa-
ton on the Danube, with its accessi-
bility to the little known capitals on
that river so rarely visited. The boats
of the Danube offer all that may be
asked for a trip of one or two days
and, besides, they offer visits to the
beautiful capital of Hungary, Budapest
and of Bulgaria, Sofia, territory little
known to travellers in Southeastern
Europe. The courses in the University
of Vienna had extensions which brought
the students to the beautiful valleys Of
the Danube now abundantly planted III
tobacco and rearing the most profitable
crops and causing the erection of NAM
moth factories, giving employment tt
men and women of all ages.
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Mr.. Sam Park, the genial bachelor
vice consul in Biarritz, will, in a few
weeks, celebrate 10 years at that post. d
phenomenal record in these years OF
shifting assignments. Mr.. Park, whc
claims that Sam" is his true and only
name and not an abbreviation of Sam
uel or Sampson or of any of the other
shortened cognomens. had a long and
mellowed experience in foreign land:
before he decided to cast his lot with
Uncle Sam. A native of Bedford, Iowa
he passed an uneventful youth, going
through the public schools and Their
feeling no lure in the rolling corn fields
Of his famous State, he departed fol
the forests primeval of Louisiana, where
the lumber industry was attracting
youth and capital. From many years o.
experience in the Pelican State. Mr.
Park went to the rich and virginia. for
ests of Mexico and from there to France
where he introduced a profitable trade
in lumber in exchange for commodities
more priced than unsawed wood. Bar
ritz had long appealed, and in the last
weeks of 1919 he entered the foreign