Evening star., 1939-05-07
BY JACQUES FUTRELLE, Jr.


the Denver section, and each July
4 a winter sports tournament is
staged on St. Mary's Glacier, IS
miles from Colorado's capital.
Sauntering through the winding
streets of st. Georges, Bermuda,
the visitor chances upon quaint
alleys bearing such names as
Featherbed, One Gun, Silk, Tin
Can, Rum and Shinbone, or Old
Maids and Barbers lanes.
In planning to bring mementoes
of a Canadian visit back into the
United States, the American may
figure on a duty-free allowance of
500 for each member of his family
Individual exemptions may be con-
solidated, so that one member of
a party of three might have goods
valued at $3.50 and the other two
goods totaling $50.
Germany's appeal for music lovers
is spotlighted this year by the
Richard Wagner Opera cycle in
Bayreuth from July Is to August
%, the Salzgurg festival of opera
and drama, July to September s;
the Munich summer festival, run
ming from May l into October, and
the special opera performances
marking the 18th birthday anniver-
sary of Richard Strauss, July 20
to September 10.
Galveston, Tex, Is known as the
Oleander City.
Officials of the Golden Gate Ex-
position generously sprinkled the
avenues and courts of Treasure
Island with enough benches to seat
% 800 persons at one time.
To prevent the inconvenience to
passengers arriving at distant points
on fast streamliners, only to find
that their baggage has been check
ed on slower train. special tags
have been made available to bag
gagemen in Washington ticket
offices and the Washington Termi-
nal Co. to warn handlers to speed
the equipage along.
American tourists, not infrequent-
ly, stand in line with tramps to par
take of the free wayfarer's dole,
given to any one who applies at
the Hospital of st. Cross, Winches-
ter, England. Bread and horn Of
ale are ones reward, with chance
to tell the folks back home that he
shared in this quaint charity, es-
tablished in medieval times.
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Forty men, who might be called
riding encyclopedias for visitors to
Rome, have been assigned to buses
of the Alag Transportation Co., as
Interpreters, train and hotel in
formation dispensers, and, if need
be, spielers with especial knowledge
of the Eternal City's archaeological
background. Each of these grad
yates of a special course is in uni
form, with an emblem crossing the
Italian flag with the flag of that
nation, whose language he also
speaks-American, French, German,
etc.
North Carolina has enlarged its
Waterside amphitheater on Roanoke
Island for the third summer presen-
tation of the Lost Colony" pageant.
The premiere for 1889 will be staged
on July l.
Quito, capital of Ecuador, has 56
churches, and the gold plate on the
side alters of San Francisco,
church established in the 18th CEN
tury, is protected from thieves by
high iron fences. The main altar
is solid silver; La Companies main
altar, solid gold
American beauties are beginning
to primp and polish up on their
talent for Atlantic Citys pageant,
September to 8, when Miss Amer
lea 1899" will be chosen. Miss
Atlantic City" who will be hostess
for the parade of pulchritude, will
be selected May q.
Novel in vacation entertainment
is the Canadian Beaver Restoration
Colony, a few miles northeast of
Montreal, where the engineers of
the quadruped world divert visitors
with a rare water -and-land show.
Camera fans find the antics of the
busy little beasts excellent pictorial
subjects. Some of the animals have
learned to respond to commands
in French, and the old and young
beavers. the latter known as kits,
are so trusting as to come not only
close enough for a close up, but
for petting as well. The colony
was established at Terrebonne, in
the foothills of the Laurentian
Mountains, by Canada's Beaver
Man," Edouard Lavoie, in 1890.
Californians, lonk known for brag-
ging about their sun, are becoming
more snow conscious. When the
winter season recently ended in
Yosemite National Park, officials
RESORTS.