European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse A a a cry july 24, 1963 the stars and stripes Page 3 Bare fact frightens pudists Fresno. Calif. A normally mayor Arthur i sri land of Fresno welcomes n can nor of speak before a Convent inn. Bui this time he demurs. I m no Rueus is the mayor but i Hom stay Don t think i could do it. Anyway hint s in the county. Why Don t they try the super visors?""well." mid Sloan p. Mccormick can trim of of the Lionard of super visors i d have to nay i in pc no plans to attend. Anyway that supervisor Norman s. Foley s District. Why Don t they try him could i Welcome them in a sentia asked Foley. Chair Man of the convention i question Howard Lane commented we have run into his kind of problem before. Civic leaders Are just too sensitive. It appears the convention will have to go without never Bern honoured but As Lane pointed out then Al meeting of the Western Sun bathing association never has been honoured by the presence of civic sold it a Elim they re never completely capable of getting into the swing of things. You know always telling you to keep your shirt year s Fleshy frolic will open Friday at the Ca Lytus Grove nudist Camp North of cloves. More than 1.000 delegates from California. Arizona. Nevada Utah and new Mexico will attend. Lane said he had thought of ask ing the Fresno convention Bureau to help. Finning on cards but i suppose that s out too he said. One of the Agency s principal functions during a convention is to have pretty Young women fill out name cards and pin them on delegates. This could be a painful said other problems Are lining up a catering firm to serve food and drink and a band to fur Slih despite these setbacks Latie said everything appears to be in Fine shape for the three Day ses Ion. The program includes ten nos Archery volleyball Horseshoe pitching a dance a Beauty contest and a Bowling tournament at Fresno Bowling Bowling tournament wll be a dress affair Lane noted. Few muscovites humiliated by custom Good communists9 Wink at tips Moscow Dpi the Moscow incl Driver undo u sour face when sellout Bayreuth festival under Way pastor s soft cell nets Long wait Lebanon ind. A the re Stanley f. Peterson new pastor o the Lebanon lutheran Church in tend cell in the county Lull Confer with a prion or after Askin Deputy to let him out in 13 Man Deputy rushed out to anime an emergency pastor Wai waiting patiently when the Deputy got Back three hours later. One Way ticket a. 0. Gentry of Arlington Tei. Weeps m his wife and Fin children boards plan. In Dallu Tor Monfalcone Italy where my. Gentry s Mother la seriously 111. Gentry could barely Ralso enough Money for a one Way family ticket. He will remain in Teiaar to pay off his debt and try to raise enough Cash to pay for his family s re Lorn trip. Bayreuth Germany a Europe s oldest music festival opens wednesday with no sign of in Dening arteries. The month Ong program of Richard Wagner operas hns been a sell out since ast december. Although it can claim Europe s growing number of music festivals. By i uth places conscious Mph Nils on newness and youth. It almost obscures the tact hat this year Marks the 100th in no Ersary of in incr s birth. Ever since the Post War revival of the Wagner festivals in 1931. Wagner s grandsons Leland and Wolfgang Wagner have made tradition of breaking with tradition. That year they produced anew parsifal discarding the Dusty realism of prewar sets and Suli Sll. Outing striking simplicity Symbol. Ism and dramatic lighting. The result was a sensation thai split the world of Wagner Lons. To this Day a few diehard Wagner fan refuse to attend the modern productions at Bayreuth but judging by the to office the Wagner heirs were right. Tin festival theater s 1.800 seats were reported sold out for All 30 performances within a month Atte tickets went on Sale. The Wagner Brothers aim a Young music lovers shows up i London Street cleaner to give times Square the Brushoff new York a a London Street cleaner is going to get his wish. He has permission to sweep times unusual request come from Snowey Tobin. Who has a Hobby of brushing important squares in Clytle. Throughput the claims to have swept every important Square in London and several abroad. Including re Square in Moscow last year on his regular Job he has been sweeping Westminster Bridge an the Road beneath big Ben for 1 Tobin wrote mayor Robert 1wagner and told him he woul like to give times Square a going Over after he Irr Lucu Here sept. On a vacation mayor extended him Hearty Welcome to assist in Thrity s clean City program. Tobl will be Given a special Broom perform the Job on sept. 3. Ieler articles defending the new aging of Wanger s operas. In connection with the opera fes Val the Wagner sponsor an in a National youth festival meeting Ferling courses study groups and or forming opportunities to music a deals aged 18 to 23. But even if they wanted to the grandsons could not remove Oil races of the cull so that marked 3oyreuth festivals for the Livee Cades following Wagner s death n 168.1. The ungainly playhouse focal ont of the festival is itself Monument to Wagner s theatrical Alent. Built to his specifications t is rated an account Lenl Triumph. Wagner devised an ingenious Unkn orchestra pit. Called the mystical abyss in Wagner in argon. There a 185-Man Orch san in forms without being seen by he audience. Its music is project Edlow Barrier Wall onto the stage to Combine with the Singer s Olce before reaching ears of the Lud Lance. Rural setting for years before the first Festi Val in 1876. Wagner Hod dreamed of such a project in a simple Rural setting where undivided attention could be Given to his work. He chose Bayreuth As his site because the quiet Little franconian town offered no big City distractions. Americans dominate the foreign contingent according to the offi Cial count of hotel registrations for the festival month in past years. Running a close second Arete French. Bayreuther will be sorely disappointed if one of the most prominent Wagnor tans the French born Begum Aga Khan tails to Moke her regular visit this year. Festival tickets sell from 10 to 65marks 12.80 to j16.25. The Audi ence is a normally sedate mixture ranging from Cost conscious Stu dents and music teachers to affluent industrialists and government minister whose gleaming Sedani Are politely applauded by the local crowd As they drive slowly up the Green Hill to the playhouse. of boo the festival is a major undertaking and brings together top wagnerian artists from Germany and abroad. The arts Lac staff including orchestra und choruses numbers nearly 300. In addition there Are nearly 200 technical and administration workers. Total costar believed to run around $623.000 four weeks of Busy rehearsal on tour separate stages precedes to festival. Par Saltal and the fou operas of the ring Rheingold walk Ere. Siegfried and Are Given e a c year. In addition this year s pro Gram includes die in a new production and urls land Isolde in a production Thi was new last year. Bayreuth managers Are proud that ticket sales meet 70 per Cento the festival costs. The remain no 30 per cent is covered by state and City subsidy. A Good said a spokesman when you con Sider that the average subsidy for opera houses in Germany is 60 per cent but thousands of Rumpans Art being humiliated every any and Porti to like it. Largely because of the influence of in increased foreign tourist flow tipping is not Only not dying out it is becoming an unofficially accepted custom. Russians themselves. If asked a direct question will usually react by saying tipping is immoral or but under probing about nine out of 10 will admit they do am always in a quandary about it one office worker told United press International. It i tip i insult a waiter. If i Don t tip i might also insult him or be thought cheap. Most of the urn i tip moderately maybe became i am a Little Bourgeois minded this correspondent has found that on an average one out of 10 taxi Drivers in Moscow will balk at a tip. The other nine gratefully accept. Top Pynx similar to Westin restaurants Barber shops coat Check desks etc., tipping i bout is usual As in the the years after the 1917 Revo Sutlon it was fairly commonplace o see signs exhorting russians Noto tip. Don t humiliate your Fel of was a typical Admont such ethical directives Are Are now in Moscow although the nether one Roe outside the Allal the less tipping is Proe iced and the More Likely a tourist s Apt to have his tip handed coat Check counters in inter russian custom demands hat All Coats be checked in res a rants Heaters or other Public places now sport Little dishes with 10 Kopek pieces and other russians say they tip approximately 10 per cent although some sports May on a big night t a restaurant when food an drink flow freely tip As much As to rubles 12.20 for a five Ruble Western wages for wait ers tint Check girls and others who supplement their income often Are adjusted to the handouts expected there is Nosuch system in the soviet Union. The time has said a re cent letter writer in the news paper soviet culture when wait is in restaurants should say to anyone giving a up Cut ten take the change your tip Lowers my dignity " not Many russians in service occupations seem to agree. Adoulia to London London a congolese pre Mier Cyrille Adoulia arrived on a three Day Mission designed to Bur the Hatchet with Britain after years of hostility and suspicion. Hollywood actress granted divorce Hollywood a actress Claire Kelly 29. Who testified her husband hates actresses eve though his Mother was one Blell Dove won a divorce from Roberta. Kenaston. She told judge Elmer a Doyle i wanted to work so i could nay same of the Bills but it would t let me work. I am an actress Buthe said he hated Kenaston. 29-year-old member of a banking family agreed to payi1so monthly support for a year old son. Robert ii. Alimony was i waived. They i 21. 1961. Were married oct. Nine plucked from Navy tug after collision with destroyer Mayport Fla. Up nine men were snatched from a Navy tug moments before it Sank in these. Johns River after colliding with a destroyer Navy spokesman said a steer ing failure turned the tug into the path of the destroyer. The mishap occurred As the tug was overtaking the larger ship and Juit As it had passed its Bow. The collision occurred about three Miles from the Mayport naval station. The tug drifted More than a mile to a Point opposite Monty s Marina where second Navy tug reached it and took the uninjured Crew aboard. A witness said the men wart hanging from the soda of the tug and were removed just before it Sank in 33 feat of water
