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Show TEACHER RETURNS j FROM EXTENDED TOUR Places of Interest in Both Europe Eu-rope and America Visited. Miss Alice Sevy, instructor in domestic and fine arts at the Dixie College returned to St. George last week from a. two months' tour of America and Europe. Miss Sevy left Salt Lake City on June ' 27 going first to Chicago and then to Washington D. C, where places of historic interest were visited, including Mt. Vernon, Arlington cemetery and the capitol building. She spent three days in New York City before leaving on July 3 aboard the M. V. Saturnia for Europe. They were on the ocean eleven days before passing into the Mediterranean sea. The first stop was made at Gibraltar where a visit was made to the gun galleries gal-leries and the Moorish castles. In Algiers visits were made to the various palaces and Arabian quarters, and the party then went to Naples, Italy, where they left the boat: Four days were spent in Rome where they viewed the Coliseum, St. Peter's cathedral, the Vatican, Forum, Cistine chapel and the Parthenon. They also saw the ruins of Pompeii and then went to Florence where they visited the art galleries. Two days were spent in Venice at the Excelsior palace., one of the leading hostelrles in the world. Venice is made up of 125 islands and the people travel about in gondolas, as we do in automobiles. Dwellings are built right up to the water's edge. From Venice they went to Milan Mi-lan and visited dwellings where Christ had his last supner, also the Milan cathedral, not- d for its beauty. Two days we: 3 spent at Lugano, Switzerland . and then they traveled through the famous St. Goddard tunnel which is twenty-five miles long, followed by beautiful scenery all the way to Lucerne, including gorgeous waterfalls wa-terfalls "and the snow-capped Alps always- in view. The next stop was at Insbrook, and then, they traveled to Ober-Ammer-gau, Germany, the principal princi-pal attraction there being the Passion Pas-sion play which is put on every ten years and takes about eight hours for each performance.- oix hundred eighty-five persons take part, two hundred of them chil-di-:, and there are 125 speaking parts. A large' amphitheater has been built for the performances, the spectators sitting on benches in the open. There are accommodations accommo-dations for 5207 persons. People from all over the world make pilgrimages to see this play, some of them walking for long distances. From OberAmmer-gau they went to Bingin on the Rhine and by steamer to Bonn where they saw the famous Rhine Walk, then to Munich, Brussels and Paris where they remained for five days. In the latter city they viewed the Eiffel tower, Louve, Pantheon, the guillotine, Phantom of the Opera, and the church of Notre Dame. In Versailles they visited Napoleon's birthplace and tomb and then crossed the English channel to London, points of interest in-terest there being London tower, and Westminister abbey, and then the party went to the Shakespearean Shakespear-ean country and visited Anne Hathaway's cottage. A visit to South Hampton closed their tour of Europe and they sailed aboard the S. S. Empress of Scotland for Quebec, where they spent a short time, also visiting Montreal, Toronto and Niagara Falls, and returned to Salt Lake City. |