Word: tourists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, tourist travel to Prague picked up magically overnight. Tourists wolfed tasty Prager ham and downed it with Pilsner beer, convinced that they were safe so long as The Man With the Wrinkled Brow continues his studies...
...Ostruga, Yugoslavia, three English tourists from Chelmsford, Essex, impulsively bought brides in the marriage market, married them in the local Orthodox Church. Sosta Stankovich, matchmaker, craftily charged them tourist prices. Prettiest bride. Miliza Radosavlgevich, went for $400. Ordinary price for an Ostruga bride...
...little Austrian Tyrolean town of Salzburg started the summer music festivals in honor of its illustrious son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. These festivals were attended by the good, pipe-smoking Bürger of Salzburg, by a few hardy music-lovers from nearby Vienna and Munich, by an occasional tourist or student from the great world beyond the Alps. Their programs were simple and unimportant. In 1918. however, a group of Viennese musicians, headed by Composer Richard Strauss, Conductor Franz Schalk, Stage Director Max Reinhardt and Playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal. decided to give Salzburg a bigger place on the musical...
...when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini snubbed Germany's Bayreuth Festival and decided to conduct in Salzburg instead, Salzburg's annual festival became Europe's biggest single tourist attraction. To it flocked not only music-lovers from all the world, but a great horde of gawping sightseers, visiting royalty, swank socialites...
Last week, as the first Nazi-sponsored Salzburg Festival opened, the extent of this difference became apparent. Cancellation of bookings from outside Greater Germany (including nearly 50% of those from England and the U. S.) converted the festival from an international tourist event into a dominantly German celebration. Places of absent foreign visitors were taken by droves of enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street...