Evening star., 1944-04-02
The Travellers Notebook
Record Foster Holiday Throngs Jam Atlantic City;
Other New Jersey Resorts Expect Boom Season;
North Carolina Plans to Perpetuote Lost Colony

to Perpetuote Lost { oIony
walk will open with the annua
Sunrise Service on Steel Pier. II
the afternoon >and evening Tomm!
Dorsey will hold forth on Steel Piel
with the' bluebloods Of dogdom of.
fering another type sound-effec
nearby in the Gath annual Kenne
Clubs Dog Show.
"Vacationist firSt-nighters" whit
brave all kinds of travel hazards II
jammed trains (worse than any.
thing Florida has ever seem, suf.
fer all kinds of mental worry tx
find hotel room, are discovering
each mealtime their only chance *
eat is to stand in line in&Any of the
long queues in front of every res.
taurant. The food, your CORE.
spondent is forced to admit, is from
sellers market"
Some few miles along the board
walk at Brigantine, N. j., is a cara.
vanserie where conWviality and wit
hold an honored place. known only
as Bills" it is the haven of anna
teur anglers from a 150-mile arc
radius. Says Bill, after dispensing
cheer over a 17-hour day: IT DOM
see how you guys can sit and fish
for IL hours. You must be all tirec
out" and means it.
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Other New Jersey resorts likewise
are anticipating a record influx O.
rest seekers. Ocean City reports
that, regardless of recent chilly
weather prevailing along the shore
hundreds of prospective vacationists
are combing the city for summel
quarters. For the first time in the
resorts history SO per cent of thu
summer listings were reported un.
der lease before April l and rea
estate transfers of improved prop
erty are increasing in an unusually
active market.
Easter Sunday observance at this
resort will open with sunrise serv-
ice, sponsored by the united churches
of the city, in the solarium on the
Music Pier. Several of the Board.
walk stores are planning that date
as their opening day.
Ventnor City is urging former
summer residents to make arrange
ments for their dwellings this year
as soon as possible, reporting the
demand for properties at an all
time high.
Wildwood reports the Metropoli-
tan Philadelphia golf season will get
under way this week with the hold
ing of the 21st annual inaugural
golf tournament April 7 to 8. One
of the largest Easter crowds in
Wildwood's history is slated to par
ticipate in the resorts boardwalk
parade.
Children of the Hot Springs (Va. }
colony will be entertained at an egg
hunt on Saturday, with War Stamps
as prizes, followed by a children's
party at the Casino. The Hot
Springs Easter parade will be some
what subdues compared with for
mer years, but still will be "the
event" Of Easter Sunday.
The next General Assembly OF
North Carolina, which convenes in
January, 1945, will be asked to take
over sponsorship of Lost Colony,
Paul Green's symphonic drama, ano
present it perpetually on Roanoke
Island.
Mr.. Green, Pulitzer Prize winner
Sam Selden, producer of Lost Col.
ony," and officials of the Roanoke
Island Historical Association, me-
with Gov. Broughton in Raleigh re.
Gently to enlist State support. Tht
Governor was told that arounc
100000 would be required to re.
furbish Waterside Theater at For
Raleigh, and to collect and rehearse
a postwar cast. Thereafter the play
is expected to pay its own way. Ir
five seasons, beginning in 1897, the
drama was witnessed by more than
400, 900 visitors.
When Lost Colony" originally
was presented, it had substantial aid
from the WPA, CCC and other Fed
eral agencies which no longer exist
Gov. Broughton pledged support OF
his administration to keep the prof.
ect alive.
Mr.. Green, professor of philosophy
at the University of North Carolina
wrote the play for the 350th ami
versary celebration of the settling of
Roanoke Island by Raleigh's ILL
fated Colonists. 1t was presented in
an outdoor theater on Roanoke Is
land and was so successful in its
first season that it was produced
each summer thereafter until war
forced its closing.
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He'll and purgatory are two
pocosins in Onslow County, N. c.
and a pocosin is the Tar Heel name
for a swamp or a dismal in which
the water-logged peaty soil usually
has a sparse growth of trees, most
ly black pine, and a dense growth of
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