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The Travellers Notebook
Scribbings about Norpay's Real Noah's Ark, the
'Pocket Edition of Europe" and
Visa Cost Cuts.

The Irish prefer Irish stew For des-
serts. the Canadian goes for pie, like
his Britisher cousin.
The Soviet's counterpart of the
derby is the all-Soviet prize meet on
July at the Hippodrome tracks on the
outskirts of Moscow. Pari-mutuel bet
ting is permitted during the racing
season, which opens in May.
HE Wagner Music Festival at Bav-
reuth opens July % and continues
through August 20. The music fes-
tlval at Salzburg. Austria is scheduled
from July "a to August 81.
Harvard College was founded at
NeWtoWn. Two years late, the name
was changed to Cambridge. In the
meantime, Rev Thomas Hooker and
Samuel Stone went with a number of
ColonlstS TO a place in Connecticut.
settled and called it--yes, Newtown.
1t was changed shortly to Hartford.
after Hertford, England, the birthplace
of Stone.
The capital of the Virgin Islands
bore the name of Charlotte Amalie 1for
the wife Of Danish king from 1873
to 1921, when the United States
changed it to st. Thomas. Now its
official name is Charlotte Amalie again,
A signal blown on a conch shell horn
each morning sends 800 or so japanese
women diving into the sea for pearl
oysters in the Bay of Ise, near the VIII
lage OF FuSetamura, Japan. Women
between the ages of IA and 10 engage
in the work.
The British visa fee was cut April l
from $40 to 81 A transit visa. for
tourists passing Immediately through
England, is 20 cents. During the
Paris exposition. which opens in Nav
and continues to November, the usual
French visa charge of So 33 will be a
cents for stay of less than two weeks.
anG Al cents for more than two weeks.
CHILDREN'S week in Atlantic City,
when the resort stages special
programs and makes concessions for
Its little visitors, will be held this wear
from June "a to July /.
South of Edinburgh is Abbotsford
House, Sir Walter SCOTS manor, which
each year is visited by thousands of
admirers of his works Westward is
the Burns Country" with scenes of
the poets birthplace near Ayr and of
his humble death at Dumfries.
The anglers paradise of South
Africa is Hermanuspetrusfon but
if you call it simply Hermanus, the
guides will know what you mean
Every day for six months, the Stock
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BUSSES WILL TRAVEL
OVER ROAD TO MECCA

CAIRO, April 10.-This Spring a
newly created highway linking Cairo
with the Suez will be open to auto
mobile traffic. The new motor road
Is over the historic pathway of the
Darh el Hal, known for centuries
al the Pilgrims road" along which
In the past all the pilgrims from Cairo
and further west Travelled on their
Journeys to and from Mecca
Twenty years ago men and camels
gathered at Damascus and Cairo in
preparation for the journey across
the desert. Stretched along the road
way were the encampments and the
wavering lines of camel traffic, SLOWLY
plodding their way to the Holy CITY
OF the East. This year motor bus and
motor vehicles are being engaged to
carry the pilgrims.
For the bus tourist generous pano-
rama Of ancient Egypt will be un-
folded
The total distance from Cairo to
Mecca by the new road will be ap-
proximately 1000 miles.
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RESORT WILL STAGE
HOLLAND TULIP WEEK
Asbury Park, N. j., Builds Dutch
Village for Late April Bloom
Festival.

ASBURY PARK, N. j.. April 10
Plans are going rapidly forward here
for the observance of Holland Tulip
Week in America" to be held the latter
part of April when the millions of COL
orful Dutch blooms in the city's ex-
tensive park areas and along the
boardwalk come to flower.
Oftcials of the Netherlands govern
ment and flower lovers from all parts
OF the Nation are scheduled to parti-
eipate.
A picturesque Dutch village includ-
Ing acres of gayly tinted tulips in
bloom, dykes, windmills and Holland
maidens in native garb will be con-
structed on an island in Sunset Lake
near the boardwalk as part of the
ceremonies. The floral pageant is
scheduled to be held the last week in
April.
The Spring resort season here finds
enlarged sun-deck facilities along the
boardwalk.
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POLAND TO STAGE
EE4ES AND FAIRS
18 Events This Year Center
on Native and Trade
Themes.

NEW YORK, April 10.-The Polish
Travel Bureau, known as Orbis, has
listed 18 fairs, bazaars, exhibitions
and conventions in Poland this year,
beginning today and continuing to
November %.
The events cover a wide range of
interests, including art, commerce,
gardening, agriculture, weaving. cos
metics and perfumes and Esperanto
and they offer the artist as well as
the business man and gardener an
excellent opportunity to gain an in
sight into the Polish life and business
methods, to say nothing of the pic
tnresquely clad peasantry who are
ID participate in some of them
; The Poznan International Fair,
from May 2 to 9, includes not only
exhibits of Polish-made textiles, but
those Of other countries. among them
France, Germany and England. The
marked advance in Polish weaving is
SHOWN by the fact that at Poznan
they make artificial wool from a by
product of milk
At Wilma. up in Northeast Poland.
the international fur fair, which
yearly attracts many American buy
ers, will be held from July 81 to
August 4 In the vicinity of Wilma
are vast virgin forests filled with fur
bearing animals, and this fair invari-
ably fers unusual native pelts.
The International Esperantists
Convention will no hold NUoreo,,
ward the middle of the Summer. Per-
formance of play in Esperanto by a
Swedish company will be an inter-
esting portion of the program. More
than 1000 persons from all parts
OF the world have signified their
intention of attending.
Truck gardeners will have a chance
to study Polish gardening methods at
the exhibition to be held in Krakow
from October to IL. A show of ar
tisan crafts will be held at KatoWice
from September Is to October IS and
at Lublin from September to 12
These, with the industrial and agri-
cultural shows at Pleszew from Sep
tember Is to la and at NiechoW on
July 4. give an opportunity to see the
Polish peasant in all his-and herr
glory.
Other fairs, bazaars and exhibits to
be held are: Eastern fair at LwoW,
September 4 to l6; fair at Katowice,
May Is to June /; Cdynia fair. in
Guiding the famous sea festival June
20 to July 4; bazaar at Krakow, May
u to June 81; bazaar at Pinsk, Au-
gust IS to 81; Wolhynia fair, Sep
tember II to 26: Paluka fairs in znin,
August % to September 5: barley and
malt fair at Poznan. September 20
TO %; seed bazaar in Warsaw, No.
oember rs to %; cosmetic and per-
fumery exhibit in Warsaw. which
opens today and will continue through
April, and sports and tourists ex-
hibition at Katowice, June 20 to 80.
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season this year, the resort is plan
nlng to have all preliminary vorl
disposed of before the coming of III,
Summer visitors. Reconditioning q
the tennis courts is under way an,
they will be in excellent conditio,
within the next few weeks. A new svs.
tenn of traffic lights is being installed
The Ocean City Golf Club official,
have arranged for the necessary wor,
that will put the course in prim,
condition for play by those who TAX,
advantage of their week end visit,
to enjoy their favorite sport. Th,
course has been open TO plaver,
throughout the entire Winter and
with the exception of few days
has been used regularly.
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holm visitor may take one of the 200
small steamers and sail for Lake
Malar and the Stockholm archipelago
without repeating a trip.
The twentieth centu| visitor to the
BoWden and Lilliesleaf churchyards,
Scotland, finds some of the carved fig
ures on tombstones lncongruous, for
there are engraved women with long
skirts and bobbed hair. This peculiar
fashion in carving dates to the thir-
teenth century.
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RESORT ATTRACTING
BUILDERS OF HOMES
Ocean City, N. J., Putting Finish
ing Touches on Facilities for
Summer Visitors.

OCEAN CITY, N. j., April 1O.-The
crowds of visitors who throng the
boardwalk and places of amusement
these Springlike week ends include
many OF those who will occupy their
newly built homes the coming Summer.
In this period Of the first 80 days
OF 1887 So foundations have been laid
lor dwellings, and apartments. The
homes cost up to $4,000.
Anticipating an exceptionally earlv
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Ireland, too, celebrates August 2 with
scores OF regattas along its coast, from
Baltimore and Carrick to Moville.
Germany puts on a regatta at Cru
nau, near Berlin, June 4, while Scot
land has its Royal Clyde Yachting
Regatta July 2, for fortnight. Even
Hungary, cut of from the sea as it is,
stirs the spirit Of Neptune in its in
habitants by great international re-
gatta on the Danube at Budapest for
two days. starting June 10.
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FESTIVALS Of SEA
TO DOT CALENDAR
Picturesque Celebrations
Planned for Summer
in Europe.

PARIS, April 10.-As one Of the
many attractions of the Interna tional
Exposition here this Summer, Paris
will hold an International Mercantile
Marine Congress during the last two
weeks of May, with delegates of many
nations meeting here to discuss prob
lens of ocean traffic and commerce.
While the congress will appeal
mainly to shipping men, elsewhere in
France and other European lands
great sea festivals are now being
planned as travel attractions for the
Summer. One Of the most colorful
fetes of the season will take place at
Etretat, France, on Ascension day,
May 6, when gorgeous religious pro-
ceSsiOn travels from the church to the
beach. There crucifix is dipped into
the waves, which are blessed with holy
the waves, which are blessed with holy
water in memory of the storm Of
1890 when reef saved the commun-
ity from destruction.
A great Fete of the Sea is also
planned June 20 on the sea strand at
Caramel, just south of the great port
of Brest. and on June "a benediction
of the sea will be observed at the lie
de Groix A similar benediction is
given at lie Panne, in Belgium,
August IS
Gdynia Plans Festival.
In Poland the Festival of the Sea
at Gdynia. June 80 to July 4. will be
observed with almost religious fervor,
for it is at Gdynia that Polands
national dream of its own seaport
has come true. Thousands will flock
there to see the Poles celebrate the
esta blishment of their mechant navy,
and hundreds of boats, canoes and
even RATS, all decked with flags and
illuminated at night, will float down
the Vistula and its tributaries to the
sea, while bontires light the river
banks and shores.
Visitors to Italy, too, will be regaled
this Summer with great sea festivals,
such as the Fair of the Ionian Sea to
be held July IA to 81 at Acireale, and
the festival and regatta at Abbazia
August 81. Perhaps the two most COL
vi lul OllSS Vi llldL ldI1u are lUp Dtdu-
tiful Adriatc Sea Festival in Abruzzi
Midsummer day, and the Festival of
the Redeemer, with sunrise ceremonies
on the Lido at Venice, July 49, Be-
fore dawn on June "a, Midsummer
day, peasants come down to the wave
swept short of the Province of Abruzzi
and row out to sea to greet the rising
OF the sun, while hundreds of Italian
children crowned with flowers come to
battle on the shores and return in
procession to their homes. Visitors
come from many lands for this un-
usual fete.
Water Fete in Sweden
Since the days of the Vikings Nor
way has prided itself on its achieve
ments with oars. This Summer it will
hold its national rowing champion
ships at Horten for two days, July 3
and 4. Sweden will content itself this
year with great water fete and
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celebrate the 400th anniversary of
Gripsholm Castle
The greatest sea sports of Europe
any Summer are its regattas. While
fame has attended the great English
Henley Regatta on the Thames the
last day of June, the Royal Regatta
at CoWes on the Island of Wight Au-
gust 2-7 is more typical of the sport.
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Steamers Again Ply Elbe.

DRESDEN, April 10.-Passenger
steamers have begun to ply on the
River Elbe again, at first with limited
service for the Spring months. This
service will be amplified with the
approach OF Summer.
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Water Fete in Sweden.

Since the days of the Vikings Nor
way has prided itself on its achieve
ments with oars. This Summer it will
hold its national rowing champion
ships at Horten for two days, July 3
and 4. Sweden will content itself this
year with a great water fete and
pageant June 19 on Lake Malaren, to
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but this did not deter Metro from
releasing 1t when the weather was
being distinctly class B.
DICTURES for the remainder of the
Summer testify to the same high
disregard for the old rule that good
films are wasted at this season.
R-K-O is giving The Toast of New
York" no chance to jell until Au-
tumn, but instead will let it bow in
next week Universal has taken the
same position with regard to The
Road Back" which is going to open
with searchEghts and bands next
Thursday night.
Others that come to mind they
don't get mention. otherwise, for
it is too hot to get up and look in
clude Saratoga" Wee Winnie Win
kie," Easy Living" Artists and
Models" lthe new Jack Benny num-
Der, and several others on the same
order.
1t was in the early Spring that
Hollywood let every one in on the
secret that it was going to break the
Summer wide open with good pic
lures. Although the Summer. II the
calendar is correct, is less than a
month old. 1t already feels it has
made good its boast. So does this
department, even though it still re-
members some pieces called Par
nell,' Another Dawn" New Faces
of 1887" the The League Of Fright
ened Men" and sadly remembered
number with Victor Moore and Helen
Broderick built around the lust OF
American housewives to participate
in prize contests. There have been
others of the same ilk, but once they
were the Summer staple. offset by
no such items as Captains Courag-
eous.'
1T is any mans guess as to which
fork of the road George Gershwyr
would have taken had he lived. Al
the time Of his death. he stood poiset
somewhere between music for the ul.
ira trade and that for every one. HI
was one of those rare geniuses whc
| had both the exclusive and universe
audiences waiting for his next com.
position.
The chances are. it seems, tina
| GershTyn would have chosen to serv'
the larger group. He was In Holly
wood at the time of his death ant
Hollywood has ways Of retaining talen
as we'll as seeking 1t out and de-
veloping it. Gershwyn. given th'
latitude which would have been hi
in the cinema center, might easil,
have found it the ideal place in which
| to carry on his work
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livery one, it would seem, fears
something. If it isn't a miner
who Is apprehensive about cave-in,
or the master OF small sailing craft
sensing dreaded squall, then its
we'll, let's say 1t is an orchestra leader
who feels that he Is performing be-
fore an unresponsive audience. And
that is about the worst thing that
can happen to a manipulation OF the
baton, says Andre Kostelanetz. who
maintains that lethargic dancers and
crowds are q constant mental hazard
to all dance band leaders"
Kostelanetz and his orchestra, at
the time of his observation, were
working with Jack Benny at the
Paramount studio In the new feature
picture. Artists and Models This
well-known leader then proceeded to
augment his remark.
THE band leader is a delicate con-
ductor OF moods between audience and
musicians II there is no enthusiasm
in the crowd. he must create it. II
there Is an epidemic Of flu. for ex-
ample, and half OF the crowd is feel.
ing low, he has to fight to keep the
mental depression from reaching hi
men.
Its the old vicious circle" Kos
| telanetZ continued. Crowd feels low
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III lllc Sedl, eIIittcu SdlNo VI scil-
sational announcements concerning
the number and expense Of forth
coming productions. are mildly panied
when the subject of output Is men
toned.
Louis B. Mayer. sharp-faced boss
of Metro-Goldwyn-M Mayer. and his
company Of high-priced stars, headed
by Clark Gable, Robert Taylor and
Luise Rainer have been expected
daily for the last three months, but
to date have failed to appear.
Every one. OF course. has an ex-
planation for the British collapse.
Some 20 so far as to blame Alexander
Korda. the man who first made Amer
ica sit up and take notice with his
Private Life Of Henry VIII"
"Kordas been living on the reputa-
ton of that picture ever since I was
told. His lavish expenditures on less
successful subsequent films impressed
other producers into following suit"
According to Korda. whom I inter-
viewed in London shortly after his
return from the United States. "Hol-
lywood is the most economical place
in the world; nothing there is wasted" ."
Which is the reason. perhaps, why
he added ''1ll work there only when
I'm starving"
MEANWHILE, the former Hungar-
A ian reporter. confident that his
new half-controlling interest IN United
Artists opens the door to SO dis
tributing centers in the United States
is planning to spend Sl0,000,00o on
his British productions before the end
OF l938-among them Red Shoes,
starring Merle Oberon; The -Four
Feathers" with asthmatic Robert
Donat, and "Playboy," with Patricia
Ellis and Jack Hubert
My greatest difYiculty is lack OF
stars" says Korda We have every
| thing else we want-character actors
technicians, cameramen-but practi-
: cally no stars"
| Instead of drawing on the Holly
wood name list, Korda is starting 4
Nation wide search for promisinl
| players and will develop them int
| top-ranking material in his Denhan
/ studios.
| Former Hoofer Jack Buchanan !!
one of the few producers in Englan'
untroubled by the current lack O.
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money for picture making. With So
100000 supplied by an optimistic gen.
tleman called Arthur Rank, the actor
producer has scheduled six Aims for
production at the Pinewood studios,
including John Gielgud starrer and
a co-featuring vehicle for himself and
Adele Astaire LADY Charles Caven-
dish.
Gaumont- British has been the hard
est hit Of all the once prosperous
London studios 1t formerly released
Is pictures year in America When
the few remaining scheduled Aims
are completed, the company is ex-
pected to concentrate on its success
full chain of theaters. II and when
this happens, Star Jessie Mathews
will be free to accept the fortune
awaiting her in Hollywood
nIRECTOR ALFRED HITCHCOCK
struck a semi-optimStic note on
the British picture situation.
I'VE are on the upgrade" he stated,
because We can't 60 any lower" His
explanation for English flm dificul-
ties had = reminiscent ring: The
bankers interefered" The same gen.
tlemen were held responsible for the
Hollywood slump Of the early ls30s.
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Sun Tan Ban.

GUN is banned for the stars at Met
neutrality-suspicious.
Every player at the studio received
an off1cial letter from Fred Datig,
casting director, which read as fol-
lows:
This letter is to request you to be
careful Of overeXposure to the sun,
resulting in darkened skin. It Is
very often difficult to photograph sun
burned people, because sun-tan shows
through makeup, no matter how
carefully applied. Also, We notice
that bathing and sun suits cause the
unexposed parts OF the skin to become
lighter than those exposed to the
sun. Many people do not like to see
women in evening gowns with two
different shades of skin showing. We
feel sure your cameraman will be able
to photograph you more effectively if
you heed the above suggestions. and
thank you for any effort expended in
preventing too much tan"
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Opera at Sylvan.
THE Estelle Wentworth Opera Group

THE Estelle Wentworth Opera Group
and the Navy Band will join to
provide three-way program for the
fifth Summer Festival at the Sylvan
Theater, on the Monument slope,
Tuesday night
The opera group will be heard in
two operate features. The first will
be An Opera Rehearsal" arranged
by Miss Wentworth to include A mum.
ber Of well-known operate numbers.
John Cassidy, a newcomer with the
group, will be heard as soloist on this
portion Of the program.
The other Wentworth contribution
will be the performance OF Gilbert and
Sullivan's Trial by Jury" Margaret
Horn. Virginia Weldon, Ira Meyer
Ray Baire. Richard Hill. Harry Yeide
and Melville Veitch will have the lead
ing roles.
The Navy Band concert. conducted
by Lieut.. Charles Benter. will star,
the evenings program at o'clock.
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Another "Follies." "

STEPPING from follies to follies,
Bobby Clark. stellar stage come
dian. has arrived in Hollywood, Hav-
ing Just completed a 36-week engage
ment with the Ziegfeld Follies, he
is in the film city to appear in the
Goodwin Follies." s2000000 screen
musical, which Samuel GoldWyn is
placing in production early in Au-
gust.
The present visit is Clark's first to
Hollywood in four years. In 1888,
he and the late Paul Mccullough. his
comedy partner of many years, starred
in q series of short film features.
A headliner of vaudeville and
Broadway musical comedies for years,
Clark is one of an impressive array
of stars Goldwyn is assembling for
The GoldWyn Follies," which will be
filmed in technicolor.
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PATTERSON Team.

4 FATHER -AND-SON team that
has become famous in Hollywood
as we'll as on Broadway was again
cast together when Elliott Nugent,
now directing new romantic COM
edy, engaged his father, J. c. Nugent,
for a major role
The elder Nueent has the part of an
irascible old multi millionaire in Co.
lumbias ITS All Yours" co-starring
Francis Lederer and Madeleine Car
roll
The father has directed the son in
many plays. and they have played to-
gether in pictures. In addition, they
collaborated in writing total Of IA
Broadway plays. between 1922 and
1885. including the smash hit, The
Unholy Three
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TODAY'S FILM SCHEDULE

KE1TH'S-"The Girl Said No."
Gilbert and Sullivan music
on the screen for the first
time, at 2::30, AIS, 8, TAO and
9:25 pm.
CAPITOL Knight Without
Armor," Marlene Dietrich
and Robert Donat in a screen
version OF James Hilton's
without Armor," at 2, 4:35,
7::2O and 1910 pm. Stage
shows at 3::40, 6:35 and 9:25
pm.
EARLE-"Ever Since Eve"
Marion Davies latest comedy
venture, at ass, Sis, 7:35
and 9:55 pm. Stage shows at
2:15, 4::35, 6:55 and 9:l5 pm.
PALACE Day at the
Races the mad Marxes at
their maddest, at 2, 4:30, 7
and 9:35 pm.
METROPOLITAN Mountain
Music Martha Rave and
Bob Burns take to the hills,
at 2, 3:55, $50, 7:45 and
9:45 pm.
COLUMBIA-"Captains Cour-
ageous," fine film transcript
ton of the Kipling novel. at
2:l5. 4:40, 7:l0 and $40 pm.
TRANS-LUX News and
shorts Shows run ! hour
and Is minutes, continuous
from 2 pm.
RIALTO - Elephant Boy
from another Kipling story,
for children and everybody
elephant minded, at 2, 355,
$50, 1855 and 10 pm.
LITTLE-"Anna karenina,' a
Garbo hit is revived, at q.
$50, 5;45. 7:45 and 9:55 pm.
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Mental Hazard

influences orchestra. Orchestra says
crowd feels low 1t is the knowledge
OF this subtle, devastating psychology
that occasionally gives band leaders
Nightmares. Only by surcharging
himself with enthusiasm can he
throw himself into the breach on
such occasions and save everybody
from bad evening.
My advice to people who want a
good time on the dance floor Is to
respond to the orchestra. Let your
self 60 and smile-and do so early IN
the evening, when it does the Or
chestra the most good. Gayety Is
even more infectious than gloom. The
orchestra leader picks up your happy
mood; he hands it on to his men;
they magnify it 100 times or more
and pass it back to YOU