Evening star., 1956-12-30


Wait for Night
If one must travel from Bal
timore to Washington by
plane, one should at least wait
until after dark, providing, of
course, that the night is clear.
The affect on this one who'd
been away from America for
nearly seven years was devas-
tating. Such a view of the
capital of our country was
very nearly over-dramatic.
In general a certain un-
reality was the keynote Of
those three days in Wash
ington.
Since the avowed purpose
Of the entire American trip
was to stimulate the sale Of
French leather gloves, every
minute of that first Washing
ton stop was dedicated to ex-
planning to everyone who
would hold still exactly why
they are the best in the world,
which they are. by the way.
Next call was on Louisville,
which will never be forgotten
for that's where / was called
countless" to my face. Ac-
tually it was over the tele-
phone. I had placed an order
with room service so I'd not
miss a second Of the new-to-
me phenomenon, commercial
TV. 1 Travelled as a married
woman and was registered as
"Comtesse de Morelos." This
was usually not understood at
all and I was frequently
addressed as Miss ComtesSe
de Morelos" or just Miss C.
de Morelos." However I'd
heard nothing as yet until
room service replied, 20 K,
that order will be right up,
Countless.
Ready for Battle
! approached New Orleans
with a chip on my shoulder,
thinking: "All right you Paris
Of America" you; you impressed
me once but that was before
I knew better. Let's see how
you stack up now!" Well, she
did and was, in fact, lovlier
and more romantic than she
seemed the only other time I
saw her.
But it's neither fair nor ac-
curate to call New Orleans
after any other place, not even
old Orleans. New Orlean-
ais" know this perfectly well
and are eager to make us
tourists understand she's as
Spanish as French. Maybe
the greatest compliment can
pay New Orleans is to say it is
one of the three places I should
like to go back to and visit
quietly with my husband.
Not knowing and expecting
very little from Cincinnati she
gave me the happiest surprise
Of all. What wonderfully we'll
dressed men live in Cincinnati!
In fact. no other city. as a
whole. turned UP so many
properly dressed males per
square yard.
Detroit represents the ex-
tent of my patience with
American chain hotel service,
its over departmentalization
designed to ease the life of the
staff and waste the time Of
the guests; and its new
breed Of hotel employees who
seemed to have apprenticed
in the stock yards. specializing
In herdine techniques.
The Maynower in Washing
ton offers satisfactory service.
The RooSevelts in New Or
leans was excellent and guilty
only Of maintaining one Of
those blasted stamp ma
chimes no ftrst class hotel
should be with. It's to the
Roosevelt's credit that they
were willing to produce sheets
Of stamps for those who re-
fused to fiddle with the ma
chine.
The only thing worse than q
stamp machine Is q change
machine and when they stand
side by side there Is nothing
worse at all unless It's hav-
ing them 80 meters apart. The
trip home in the Liberte
showed that returning Euro
peans to a man agreed that
Americas greatest single an
noyance is that pair Of infer
nal machines.
But back to the hotel prob
lem. Hilton's Statlers have
one interesting touch that Is
certain to be abandoned in the
next sweep Of modernization.
Each room is supplied with
an old fashion pin cushion
complete with pins. needles.
buttons. and threads in three
colors. Other hotels gave up
pin cushions so long ago we
travel now with our own Just
as one travels in Europe with
ones own soap.
Arriving in Detroit late on
. Saturday night / had all day
Sunday to rest and use up q
day as only . woman can
when she's alone. The radio
was on and 90 was . profess
sional football game between
the Detroit Lions and the Los
Angeles Rams. Very much on
the field was q fellow named
Ron Waller and I pricked up
my ears because he's the boy
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