Sundae. Februcarv 26, 1956 Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Sunday, February 26, 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ~i inrev F~hriin~'v 26. 1956 THE MICHIGAN DAILY *~~1I ~ ~ - - - - Twyc n TH MCHGA.DALYSuda..ebrar.2,.95 The Places ... ARRANGEMENTS tours and passports Paris, Loncwn, New York, Rome The Capitals of the World PARIS By ROBERT F. JONES AMORPHOUS, chameleonlike, the metropolis adapts itself to the tourist's preconception. It sprawls, seemingly trapped, beneath the pin of his formulated phrase. He may stereotype it to death, for all it cares. Your tastes may be high, med- ium or low. You may be naive and open-mouthed, jaded and wise, bored with cliches or ready to be- lieve anything--Paris has a special face for you. LOOKING for art (with a capi- tal B for Bohemian)? Paris has it in two general va- rieties. The tourist is most likely to see the obvious manifestation. --Photo-Robert F. Jones PARIS S SIDE STREET ON A SUNNY MORNING y adapts itself to the tourist's preconception." "... the cit: Robert Jones, '56 found this" side of Paris one summer, tak- It twitches valiantly, high on the l ing time out from a naval slopes of Montmartre, clad in col- c training cruise to investigate orfully ragged suits, lumpy berets. "la vie boheme." It wields brushes, perhaps not in the most artistic manner, but at c WILD'S WILD'S WILD'S WILD'S WILD'S I Cotton-Dacron Cordsa o a Now AVAILABLEFOR LAYAWAYSb is Lr - - -* * -- sLI) to a r r- p,. Wild's and College y y. iiAyou the - . DACRON-COTTON ORas $X0.5O in the Duke Model, natural styling with deep hooked vent and lapped seams. Available in light blu grey, and tan o STATE STREET ON THE CAMPUS east out in the open where you can see it. How about glamour, fashion and chic? Walk the boulevards and you'll see what you expect-long- egged, sleek-lined and aloof as Brahmin monks. The fashion- femmes of Paris seem localized, however. Step off the boulevard, and women become garden-varie- ty again. Want a fling at the highly-tout- ed Paris night-life? Perhaps you have heard that -the real thing isn't to be found in the Pigalle clubs or on the stage of the Folies Bergere. SOMEONE tells you of a little catacomb on the Left Bank near Notre Dame. There's this jazz combo plays there, they say. This is more like it, you say. Let's go. We're off through the' night streets in a cab, running without lights, the driver flicking the switch on and off only when we hit an intersection. Across the Seine, flat and smooth in the lamplight. On the river, a tour-boat hisses along, bright-lit, faces at the glass. The cab dives down a narrow street, between buildings so old that logs are needed to shore them up. The brakes whine, and we get out. You peel off a flimsy bill with more zeroes than you're used to. A WOMAN leads us down a nar- row stairway. The walls are nitred and smell like damp chalk. We emerge into a low-ceilinged cubicle dominated by a well-carved bar out of which rise, like the horns of a goat, two chrome beer- spigots. From the next room, through a moss-green arch, comes the slow shuffling of progressive jazz. You mutter something eager about life and the stark realism of Europe# and enter. It takes but a moment for the scales to fall from our eyes. The people sitting enwrapt before the smoothed-stone dais on which the swaying bandsmen play are cam- era-weighted, clean-cut Americans, even as you and I. A prime precept of Paris flashes through our minds: There are never more than two ".or three camera-type Americans in an authentic locale. Duped again. ONE OF PARIS'S most thriving tourist-traps is the so-called "Artists' Bohemia" atop t h e church-capped bulge of Mont- martre. The ride uphill to the A.B. is most certainly calculated to put one in the mood. You wind up narrow streets past quaint little shops. Women stalk the cobble-stones bearing all manner of wierd breads. The higher you climb on the slopes of Montmartre, the thicker flock the shrivelled old ladies sell- ing their posies. You pass Montparnasse cefne- tery, an impression or mausoleums plastered with Rococo gingerbread. In a moment you are past. All that remains is an image of age -tradition, history, memory. THE CAB stops before a white basilica - Sacre Coeur, the Church of the Sacred Heart. Many stone steps lead from the doors of the church down to a railed ram- part. Tourists stand in mechani- cal concentration, rapidly working their camera gimmicks. Around the corner from Sacre Coeur, you "stumble" on the "ar- tists." You couldn't miss them if you tried. They have set up their easels in the cobbled street. Bearded, shabby, clad in sack-like suits, they seem to ignore the gaping See REAL, page 3 "Months of planning andr years of experience have gone> into the creation of these itin-2 eraries. Each itinerary repre- sents a series of superb travele climaxes. By enrolling in one7 of these personally escorted, all-a expense tours, you will save yourself days, even weeks, of needless bother and delay. You'll see much more of Eu- rope in less time."f THE Guided Tour is designed tot take the trouble out of travel,t to give you the world's highlights in an efficient, carefully worked1 out program. . As one travel agency executive put it, "Travel is hard work." It is the object of the Guided Tour to eliminate the usual pains, annoy- ances and discomforts of inde- pendent tourism. The variety of tours offered to, the general public is amazing. All tastes, all interests, all pocket-7 books are catered to. There are the drama tours, the music tours, the journalism tours, the foreign affairs tours, the col- lege student-teacher-graduate-re- tired businessmen tours. If you choose the right group you may be in line for "carriage rides in the moonlight in Flor- ence," "interviews on selected days with Sibelius in his study," or giv- en an opportunity to "unravel the riddle of the Sphinx." TOUR prices range from $945 for 73 days to $1839 for 35 days. The American Youth Hostel as- serts that you can learn to travel for $2.50 a day, while de luxe tours will give you hotel accommodations at $35 a night. The key point of any tour is the tour leader. He is the person whose years of experience are brought to bear on your three or four months in Europe. He will, as one agency has modestly put it: "make it possible for you to travel without a care in the world . . He will help make going through customs a pleasant ex- perience rather than an irksome chore. He will see that your lug- gage is in your room on arrival at the various hotels. He will be a valued asset in planning shopping expeditions, recommending shops where real values may be obtained, and in arranging theater and dancing parties. He will carry your tickets, arrange the sight- seeing trips and plan escorted strolls. He will be on hand at all times to help you make your tour the perfect one of your dreams." The 1956 travel-tour grab-bag's offerings fall into the following general categories: THE COLLEGE TOUR TICAL of the college Euro- pean tour is one that origi- nates on this campus-the "Euro- pean Holiday." It is directed by two Ann Arbor residents at a price of $1,445 including aScandinavian Tho' group will sail from New York(City on June 27 and travel to t 6 countries of the Mediter- THE GUIDED TOURS PASSPORT PROCEI anean, Gibralter, Sicily, West Europe and North Europe - 11 countries in all-returning on Aug. 29. The itinerary is representative of the two-month European tour. The group docks in Naples, after a cruise of the Mediterranean, and covers the main cities of Italy as well as the Riviera. The Bavarian Alps in Austria, Switzerland, the Black Forests of Germany as well a's Heidelberg, and even a trip up the Rhine River form the next lap of the journey. Two days in Amsterdam precede the Scandanavian part of the tour, which will be omitted if the group desires to tour France and Belgium. Scotland, London and Paris complete the trip. THE SPECIAL INTEREST TOUR JOHN CHAPMAN, drma critic of the New York Daily News, will lead a European theater tour, which takes tour members to musicals, operas and plays in Eng- land, France, Germanys Switzer- land, Italy, Spain, Holland,. Den- mark and Scotland. Personal introductions, recep- tions and educational discussions are featured. The tour runs from July 5 to August 11 at a cost of $1875. Tourorganizer is Thomas Duffy, who can be contacted at the Hotel Onondaga, Syracuse, New York. z THE YOUTH HOSTEL TOUR CYCLING about 30 miles or hik- ing 10 miles a day, staying at inexpensive accommodations and relying on your own resources can bring your travel expenses down to $2.50 with youth hostel groups. The American Youth Hostels Association sponsors all-summer and four-week specials to Europe. Sailings are between the end of May and the first part of August. All-summer trips are offered to six. areas of Europe. The lowest priced tour covers England and France -at $690, with side-stops to the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, FOR THOSE travelers interested in a combination trip of hos- teling and independent travel, AYH offers their four-week spec- ial. Groups of 10 travel together foi 30 days as a group and learn how to hostel, then members have a two to four week additional period for independent hosteling. Return passage for .the group is scheduled Six four-week specials have been announced, covering differ- ent sections of Europe and includ- ing a music festivals tour. Costs run from $580 to $695, with aii travel bringing the price up t approximately $200. For the first time this year AYH 9s.pesenting a hiking caifa- van of Europe for four weeks, fol- lowed by independent hosteling Eight hostelers and leader wil travel by foot, using a Volkswagen station-wagon to get from one point to another. 'Fos?.:rltt'her information n ?th4 youth hostel trips, write to th American Youth Hostels, Ine4 4 West 8th Street, New York City. SOMEWHERE in the midst of packing suitcases, making res- ervations and planning routes, the prospective European traveler must take time out to equip himself with an essential travel aid-his United States Passport. The handy green booklet will enable him to visit all the- coun- tries of Europe (outside the iron curtain), although visas are nec- essary in the case of Finland and Yugoslavia, and can be obtained in two to six weeks' time. The process of application is not calculated to overwhelm the aver- age college student, but a certain procedure must be followed. Applications must be made in person at the County Clerk's office, or before an agent of the Depart- ment of State, and the following documentary proofs must be pre- sented: 1. Proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or naturaliza- tions papers, 2. Two recent photographs, 2x/ inches by 2M inches, on a light background. 3. An identifying witness, who has known the applicant for at least two years, who is over 21 years of age and has proof of American citizenship. These three items must be ac- companied by a nine dollar money order (only money orders will be accepted), and one dollar addi- tional fee for the .County Clerk's office. ONCE equipped with the pass- port, the traveler will find that some countries also demand visas. Outside the iron curtain, the Eur- opean countries of Yugoslavia and Finland demand visas, which can be obtained from any Finnish or Yugoslavian consulate. Travel behind the iron curtain, into the countries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and Ro- mania is now possible without v t7 R a a S r{ c I 0 is c v t Make Early Plans If there is a European trip in your future, travel agencies advise action now. During the summer season, steamship passage is booked years ahead. Individual round-trip tickets tourist class are now almost impossible to obtain for the coming season. It is considered safe traveling to book passage this month for a year or even two years ahead. A 25 per cent deposit will be due after the space is assigned, but the ticket can be can- celled and complete payment will be refunded as late as six weeks before departure. Steamship ticket applications are filled according to date of receipt. -m 1 FREE FORD 33-DAY tour of Europe $1098 per person 60-DAY tour of Europe. $1398 per person RATE INCLUDES: " Roundtrip trans-Atlantic airplane ticket-by TWA Constellation * All first class hotel accommodations " Most meals (Breakfast and Supper) * Sightseeing guided in principal cities * First class auto tour of Europe in a new English-built Ford which you drive License plates and touring documents * International auto insurance. " Ford Motor Co. Ltd. new car warrantee 0 Directed route and Europear road maps y 0 Membership acd badgein European Auto Club' Roof luggodo rck; canvas cover; straps .- . -r' of any additional charge -the FR ANGLIA 4-PASSENGER SEDAN 4* 4 FRONT ROW: Left to right-Harry P. Hawkins, Ann Hoa BACK ROW: Left to right--D. 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