Evening star., 1935-03-24

THE curtain is rising on Ameri-
cas- most gorgeous travel spec
tacie the national parks.
i And they find an audience
anxious that the show go on.
Winter snow has hidden the vivid
colors, blocked the winding roads and
trails with drifts, and sent the herds
of elk, the more individualistic bear
and the bounding deer into Winter
quarters; sub-zero temperatures have
glazed the ripping lakes, crusted the
picturesque falls with ice. trans
formed the geysers into grotesque
monuments. Now comes Spring,
slowly thawing the park gates that
have been frozen forbiddingly shut.
and intensifying the longing for what
aptly has been called the great out
doors.
The national parks will crafty
that yearning for millions who will
visit them this year. Nineteen-thirty-
four was officially National Parks
year, and many Americans discov-
cred their beauty for the first time.
They brought back tales OF Bryce
Canyons fantastic pinnacles and
spectacular coloring; Of Glacier. with
its Alpine beauty and deep precipices:
of YelloWstones world-famous Grand
Canyon, geysers and petrified forests.
And these are only three. There are
"a national parks and monuments,
their 1892 square miles embracing
some of the most exceptional scenery
on earth.
THE 60-day trip around the world Is
one OF the latest novelties In
travel, and announcements OF three
such tours have been received re-
Gently. Arranged largely for the
globe -trotter who does not wish to
spend three or four months circllng
the globe, the tours employ ships and
trains, but ignore the service OF
planes.
One of the tours leaves New York
on July 3, goes across Sweden, sails
over the Baltic to Leningrad; then
on to Moscow. Here is one OF the
vital keys in the trip-the trans
Siberian Express. BY boarding this
train July IS the traveller reaches
Harbin. Manchoukuo, August l. This
train cuts about three weeks from
a route through the Mediterranean.
the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean.
A slight variation trims three days
from the two-month trip. Passen-
gers may sail on the Bremen from
New York on July 6, go to Berlin
and join the main party by taking
the Berhn-Leningrad express train.
Another tour offered touches Med
iterranean ports. The passenger may
sail May on the Deutschland or
May II ON the Bremen. Landing
at Southampton. he visits London
and goes on to Genoa via Paris. At
liner Scharnhorst, touches Naples.
Port Said, Singapore. Manila and
Yokohama (along with intervening
ports, and sails for San Francisco
on the President Coolidge, via Homo
lulu. The trans-America journey is
made by train.
The third trip goes westward from
New York by rail, making connections
with the Asama Maru to cross the
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horst June Is at Shanghai. Manila,
Singapore, Port Said and Marseille
are among the ports on the westward
journey to Southampton. The At
lantic is crossed on either the Ham
burg, leaving July 26, or the Europa,
July 27.
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IT MAY be years before the answer
arrives, but one can hardly help
| from specializing on whether Hol-
lywood scenario writer has started q
fad. Last October. it is recalled, Tom
Reed, film author, received a note
from Alfred E. Smith, thanking him
Tor a letter he had just received. Reeds
letter was mailed" in the middle Of
the Atlantic in 1882, the mail box