FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 195
THE 1' UCRIGAN DAILY
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CANADA GETS MOST U.S. DOLLARS:
American Travelers Spend Record Amount Abroad
By DAVID L. BOWEN
Associated Press Newsfeature Writer
Americans, going abroad as nev-
er before, are setting a new record
for foreign travel spending this
year.
Last year United States residents
topped all previous totals by shell-
ing out $1,358,000 on trips to other
lands. The Department of Com-
merce, on the basis of reports for
the first six months of 1955, ex-
pects the total this year to grow,
to about 11% billion dollars -- 10
per cent higher than last year and
half again as large as expenditures
just five years ago.
As the accompanying map
shows, the biggest target of these
American dollars is E u r o p e
and the Mediterranean countries,
where Americans spent 484 mil-
lion dollars last year, an increase
over 1953 of 15 per cent. A simi-
lar jump seems to be taking place
this year since figures on the first
half of 1955 run 17 per cent high-
er than for the same period in
1954.
Canada Profits Most
The single country profiting
most. from U.S. travel dollars is
Canada, where 284 million was
spent in 1954. Mexico is in sec-
ond place among single countries
with 190 million last year and a
pace in the first half this year
that indicates it will score con-
siderably above 200 million in
1955.
In addition to the 958 million
dollars Americans spent in 1954
in the countries and regions shown
on the map, they paid another 400
million getting to and from their
destinations. United States car-
riers garnered 214 million of these
ticket fares, with foreign flag car-
riers taking the other 186 million.
This division reflects the tre-
Tonight and Sati
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Child Choir
ill Present
'U' Concert
The Obernkirchen Children's
Choir will open the Tenth Annual
Extra Concert Series, sponsored
by the University Musical Society,
at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Hill audi-
torium.
The Choir, for whom the song
"The Happy Wanderer" was writ-
ten, is conducted by Edith Moel-
ler and accompanied by J a m e s
Benner.
Proclaimed "Angels in Pigtails"
by the late poet Dylan Thomas,
their first concert tour last season
broke box-office records and saw
many sold-out performances.
Their program will include se-
lections by Brahms, Schumann, di
Lasso and Schubert, and Welsh,
Bulgarian and German folk songs.
Tickets for the concert are still
available in the offices of the Uni-
versity Musical Society in Burton
Tower.
Music Student
Given Honor
A University music student will
be honored by the performance of
his original composition by the
Louisville, Ky., Symphony Orches-
tra tomorrow.
Roland Trogan, a teaching as-
sistant and doctoral student, is the
author of the work.
The young musician's work,
"Two Scenes for Orchestra," will
receive its premiere performance
on this occasion.
The performance was part of
the cash award which Trogan won
in a competition sponsored by the
orchestra last spring.
TV PRODUCTION:
Max Liebman Adds New
Meaning To 'Spectacular
By CHARLES MERCER
NEW YORK W)--An editor of
Webster's International Diction-
ary called the National Broadcast-
ing Co. the other Gay and request-
ed its definition of the word
"spectacular."
Thus, apparently, the big and
splashy productions which NBC
last year labeled "spectaculars"
have found their way into the lan-
guage. Interestingly, the man who
biiught the "spectacular" to NBC-
TV-Max Liebman-is a small,
quiet man.
Doing Less Spectacularg
This season he's doing fewer
spectaculars than last year. But
he and the company he's formed
are as busy as ever working at a
series of half-hour shows between
spectaculars. Eventually he hopes
to bring these half-hour shows to
the TV screen.
Meanwhile, with the production
of "Heidi" behind him, Liebman
has quite a schedule of spectacu-
lars ahead of him this season. On
Nov. 5 Patrice Munsel will star
in "The Great Waltz."
A romantic comedy, "Dearest
Enemy," starring Anne Jeffries
will come to the screen Nov. 26.
Christmas Eve there will be a
repeat of last year's successful
"Babes in Toyland," with Jeannie
Carson, Dennis Day and Wally
Cox.
"From last year's experience,"
he says, "we learned that we must
always bear in mind not to ape
all the mechanics and thinking of
the movies and. stage.
The most important thing to
achieve on the TV screen, says
Liebeman, is a balance between
intimacy and the big scene.
Hatcher Sets
Alumni Tri
Five Upper-Michigan alumni
groups will be hosts to University
President Harlan Hatcher next
week.
Accompanying him on ti e
northern trip will ber Arthur L.
Brandon, director of University
Relations, Robert U. Cross, ad-
ministrative assistant to the pres-
ident, and Alumni Association sec-
retary, T. Hawley Tapping.
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Friday at 7 and
SARTRE'S
LHAND
"A fancy intellectual exercise
* ** considerable
food for thought."
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mendous modern growth in Ameri-
This speed-up in transporta-I
can sea and air lines. Back in
1929, when 210 million was spent
by U.S. travelers on transporta-
tion, foreign flag carriers got 168
million of the total and American
firms only 42 million.
Air Travel Causes Increase
The Department of Commerce
believes that one of the factors
causing the recent increase in
travel to Europe is the develop-
ment of air transportation.
urday atf8 P.M.
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tion, incidently, would not affect
a nearby nation like Canada, and
may account for the slower rise
in tourist expenditures there. Vis-
its by families to military per-
sonnel stationed abroad may be
another factor in the postwar rise
in European travel.
A new element in the picture
is introduction by air lines last
year of "pay-later" plans for fin-
ancing overseas trips. About 4
per cent of all European travelers
used this method during the per-
iod from October of 1954 to March
of ti-q year.
Mexican Travel Increases
The Commerce Department re-
ports travel payments to Mexico
have increased by about 30 per
cent from 1950 to 1954, a period
during which transportation fa-
cilities were substantially improv-
ed. One explanation of the sharp
rise noticeable in the first half
of this year is lower prices re-
sulting from the devaluation of
the peso in 1954.
Americans spent an average of
$1,467 in 1954 for their European
trips, about 10 per cent more than
the average in 1950. The depart-
ment says this reflects an increase
of from $11.24 in 1950 to $14.98
last year in the average amount
lion each and Germany was third
Journalism Class
Prefers The Daily
In a poll of sophomore journal-
ism students the Michigan Daily
proved to be the most-read daily
paper in Ann Arbor.
The Daily, with 33 was, first,
though closely followed -by the
Detroit Free Press with 30 read-
ers.
Then came The New York Tim-
es, 10, Detroit News, 8, Chicago
Tribune seven, Detroit Times and
Ann Arbor Daily News four, and
the Chicago News, three.
spent per day. This rise was part-
ly offset by a decrease in the av-
erage length of trip from 66 to 56
days. Average transatlantic fare
was $628.
The pattern of European travel
has not changed materially in the
last five years. France is the big-
gest collector of tourist dollars,
earning 72 million in 1954. The
United Kingdom and Italy were
tied for second place with 64 mil-
with 34 million.
'Sweethearts' Scheduled
Jerome Kern's "The Cat and
The Fiddle" will be presented Feb..
18 and Victor Herbert's "Sweet-
heart" March 17.
At the age of 53, after a life-
time in show business, Liebman
is still learning and experiment-
ing.
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Sunday at 8 only
Eugene O'Neill?
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Directed by JOHN FORD
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search planes, patrol bombers. The
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New positions have been created for
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new C-13OA tubo-prop transportsand,
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speciali"e"'in the technology of g''ed
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