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Show soiNG "Abroad at HO HE" ?CJA! J-' - A s x j.-- j.-- . 1 .' - - - A , :s " A A A - : : V- v -A i J: - A - , - r r- ,f yrrAA' ' putch . . ... , . , .... .... ? -t - 4 v-'-."-' i- ! 'A''K ' if f, f vl i 1'; i'A Af 'A , ' f '----Al f :ji .L AGE. A? - f T- ,J W -i i- f 1 , " r I I I - , o ' ,JZ,j ' A 4iA A S .v.-vTi' -a, i; -; r.-AAAr A A"i --' IliHIr . i: - t-i-W ?. 'y ' JAr" v ' lllill " ' xI-. A A t,tih - -1a e-, F? r-- AT-V 10 ' v' - , , 7V;fM 1 v - Aj J - lAt i -J A I w W-UUM P J J " . 5? , . , i,'n'AA XRnl i t v AA Ol-D NORTH CHURCH, J -COLONIAU VILUAGE A' V ' ' k kl I ' A?"- AAJ r . ' w f -xrA J-A-- -At-. ;:tv'K -?,alA , A Ay Hwa , . N ;,r-s ,8s?r rt isia, land ofthe: Bedouins ca: I. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON TynEIlE'S a call out for the woman v, i who writes all those travel books neft; which have been published from . : time to time under the title of "So 'if 1 A You're Going to " he; fcL (the blank space being for the name :e of some foreign country). If she V' wants to do It, she can write a com-esf com-esf blnatlon volume which will be a ra guide book to more than a dozen sit of them and the title of It might og-v "So You're Going to Chicago." nh is by way of saying that tills summer or( ids of Americans are "going abroad at 1d!.. by visiting the second edition of the big lg jlilch the middle western metropolis put Jt f summer. For the outstanding feature of djj.4 Century of Progress exposition Is the villages which now stand on the shores te'e Michigan. Unlike other world's fairs imsyou got your idea of w.hnt a certain for-'Aintry for-'Aintry was like by Inspecting a formal J3'1;" of some of the products, handicraft, that land, this year's exposition in Chl-lc" Chl-lc" Ters you a "grand tour" of four conti-anl' conti-anl' concentrated In less space than a towns' town-s' e- your home county, where in the trans-v'' trans-v'' lilts of more than a dozen foreign lands ' 0Li hobnob with their people and breathe icrvcry atmosphere of their everyday life. 1 s'rie four continents represented by villages t'6 'air, Europe baa the greatest number. A the English village Is more than a trip a,, he Atlantic to call on our British cousins. A s also a journey back Into the past to A.irrie England of the Sixteenth century fjAaiiiorous by the writings of several lm-A lm-A & who lived then. For over here is the of Ann Hathaway, to which more than (('tiss the Ileitis of Stratford-on-Avon came -"'ethetirt, young Will Shakespeare, as yet jjous of the fame that was to be his. a replica of Iladdon null, home of the orothy Vernon, w hose tempestuous career i I 'lied from the obscurity of history In the Jjj,'f Charles Major's "When Knighthood flower." And not far away Is the replica lieA:e Pogis church where Gray wrote his :e8Mn a Country Churchyard," and another .tli:ave Manor, ancestral home of the Wash-still Wash-still t sit tve England and go to Ireland does not inan'n trip across the stormy Irish sea. In-iout In-iout t -minute's walk up the Midway takes the got' buck to the "ould sod" a village of sob in a score of buildings ranging from the ng t,: thatched cottage to a replica of Tara's ants -ned gong nmi story as tMe mooting ng the ancient Irish kings, clergymen, gul 'S and hards. Ipi A'Ar VA,A'AA ' s:? - , "y ' i i ' fffiHt v "S'Af A ITALIAN J VILLAGE N ' STREETS OF SHANGHAI ' AA But don't spend too much time here In Queen Wilhelmina's land, for you're due over In the Black Forest of Germany, In a village called the "Schwarzwalder Dorf." There, no matter how blazing the sun may be on the Midway, you'll find mid-winter weather and you'll enjoy the novel experience of outdoor Ice skating In the middle of summer. Against a background of syn-thetlc-snow-covered mountains (they were built to order and contain more than 15 tons of steel, 00,000 feet of lumber and 2,000 yards of plaster) you'll see typical German houses, their roofs mantled with snow (synthetic) and with icicles (also synthetic) hanging from their eaves. Over there you see but the little door on that cuckoo clock hanging on the wall has flown open and the cuckoo Is tolling you that it's time to resume re-sume your "tour" to that Swiss village that nestles nes-tles at the foot of the snow-covered Alps (synthetic, (syn-thetic, of course). That clear, high-pitched call you hear as you enter Is a Swiss yodeler saluting salut-ing bis native mountains (for, in truth, the Illusion Illu-sion of these man-made Alps Is almost perfect). If you're tired of snow and high mountains by this time, In a minute or two you can be In sunny sun-ny Italy. You enter It through a replica of the entrance gate to the little town of Signa. But once Inside the village you find It's more than one Italian town. Here Is a replica of the Waning Wan-ing garrisenda tower of Bologna. Over there Is the home of Christopher Columbus In Genoa. You cross the Plaza Benito Mussolini nnd walk up and down the Via Marconi nnd the Via Crlsto-foro Crlsto-foro Colombo which flank the square. You visit the ancient Roman temple of Apollo and Lack of ITALIAN VILLAGE I and come hack to your own, your native land. But when you do, when you enter the village that stands for America's part In this congress of villages of the world, It won't be the America of everyday life that you know. For, as was the case in the English village, you'll be transported back two centuries or more the moment you enter en-ter the Colonial village. Dominating t he village is the tall spire of Old North Church In whose belfry tower hung the lantern ("One If by land and two If by sea") which sent Paul Revere riding furiously northwestward north-westward that April night nearly 100 years ago. Paul's house is there, too. as Is the old Massachusetts Massa-chusetts state house. That little building over there is the print shop of a young man named Pen Franklin. In that house lives Betsey P.oas, busy with her needle and thread on a new flag of Bed and Wltiie and Blue just such a f.ag as flouts gently in the breezes from Lake Mh'hlgno at the top of the tall flag pole which stands In 1'oe isiUM'e of the village. Here is the House of Seven Gables, the Witches House, the Pirate Gaol, the Village Smithy (Yes, there's a "spreading chestnut tree") the Pilgrim Settlement, a Colonial Kitchen and a Wayside Inn. Over there Is the Governor's Palace, the Virginia Tavern and Wakefield, where George W ashington was born. You walk across the Village Vil-lage Green and mount tiie steps of Mount Vernon. Ver-non. You pass on thro:ih this stately mansion iii ti e colonial gardens in the rear, then out irda the blazing sunlight and re.jse of the Midway, You Mink your eyes as th::g!i waking up from a (irear.i. This Is Chicago a 1;:;U nal n:-t Virginia Vir-ginia a:'. J 177o. And then o-i rente::.! .'-r : In throe or fo;:r hours. yo-;'e been aro:::.i th 'r:i You've been "going abroad at ho:ae." 4i bv -.Vaslern NcAa: -irer L'n.ai. jom -across the street from this historic pill Dtltet-'tch out I That jaunting car Just barely "Hi!) and you'll find yourself In Dlnty que;- Pub, one of the most famous bars of stoV 'vlth Its sawdust covered floor and rough , pein benches. As you drink a toast to tlte .lie tho Emerald Isle there drifts In through vt out- ows the sounds of music and you hurry ljjcdn tho throng gathering In the village -iere a group of Jolly Irish bids and col lStag''J dancing jigs and reels to the neeoin st,ir-; of bagpipe and harp. 3 in f; you're a serious minded "tourist" and eXtra :'me t0 w"ste on watching such frivol! Aii;r tlun'e ls a group of weavers demon sC-the manufacture of Irish linen, poplin fit!t:r'' lllul 1,1 another place you can try to 5 n.V the Latin text of the Book of Rolls, the '. ,,p e'l copy of the Gospel, said to be the ' ' i 'nple of early Christian art of Its kind. 011 mining also local Irish records da'Jm: ta'.ihe Eighth century. x ' . depart from the British Isles and five .later you're In Holland In the land of lge Mndniills and dykes and canals and tu-tver! tu-tver! here are you going, my pretty maid?" nctti" that rosy-cheeked girl as she clatters ;hei e cobbled street in her wooden shoos. mVV' a pail on her arm. "I'm going a-milk-, but - sne n,.,y or m.ly not ro.)ly j.ut anv llgli " mi follow her, you'll see a Dutch farm nJrfffrith Its Immaculately kept cow-stable. nto family living quarters, with Its tile- iers and other furnishings that would it of place In a modern American houia. that you stand on a baltistraded piazza overlook-ing overlook-ing tlte Oourtile Italo Balbo. A short steamer voyage on the Mediterranean (in fancy) and you're In Spain where you wander wan-der through the halls of tlte famous Poblett monastery which dates back to the Eleventh century nnd houses the famous Virgin of Pilar. You inspect other historic castles and buildings from tlio six most famous provinces of Spain and again you take ship for another voyage on the Mediterranean (a "magic carpet" otic, of course). This time Africa is your goal there to visit the Oasis, a Mediterranean village of North Africa, Af-rica, or the Tunisian village peopled by Arab sheiks. Bedouin tribesmen and African craftsmen crafts-men demonstrating their arls and handicraft. From Africa the "tourist" heads next for Asia, for tlio Streets of Shanghai, a colorful reproduction repro-duction of one section of that International Chinese Chi-nese port. Pagoda towers, eight stories high and painted In brilliant hues, mark the entrance to a colony of typical Chinese tniiMii'.gs, luchnling a Confucian temple, a theater, an art gallery, shops and restaurants. It would take you weeks to make your way across the Pacific ocean from China to Mexico If you wore a real tourist. But as a "to;t;it" at tlte world's fair It Is only a few minutes walk from the Streets of Shanghai to the Mexican village, vil-lage, with its replicas of tlte Aoaupoe chut-;!;, the Aineeainoea chape! and the cathe iral of Cuornavaca. But don't let the easy-coin :, "coco tlempo" atmosphere hold you la lis spell too loiig. It's almost time to end your "world tour" |