Scandinavian American. [volume], August 01, 1948, Page 11, Image 11

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l—IE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
Our Heartiest Greetings
And Best W ishe§ to the
Order of Vasa Convention
lile 'Iemple’s Shrine circus coming
The world-renowned clown, Harry Dunn and hie amazing duck
in make their first appearance in Seattle with the Shrine Circus
uring the ten-day engagement with matinee and night perform
nces deny.“ Friday. September 10th and continuing through Sun
y, September 19th. at the Civic Ice Arena.
galaxy of the nation's top
ch circus performers will come
Seattle September 10 when the
Temple's 7th annual Shrine
ack Brothers Circus opens a
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Friday and Saturday
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dmission: 75c (incl. tax)
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ten-day run at the Civic Ice
Arena, it was announced today by
Lawrence D. Wickiund. general
chairman.
The all-new Polack Brothers
show will be presented in 21 acts.
An indo’o’r circus. the show is com
plete with elephants. the hair-rais
‘ing stunts of trapeze artists.
‘trained seals. aerial ballet—and the
clowns. Particularly Bo Bo Bar
nett. one of the most famous cir
cus clowns in the country.
Some of the stellar acts in the
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show include Don Dorsey. the 1948
edition of the Daring Young Man
on the Flying Trapeze; The Sky
land Ballet;' Ivanov Trio in com
edy on the horizontal.bars; Aml
able Antics by the Ambassadors
of Joy; Chai and Somay in an ex
hibitio_n of equilibristic and con
tortionistic skill; Dwight Moore‘s
Mongrel revue; Harold Barnes.
boogie to ballet on the tight wire;
the Berosini Troupe, renowned high
wire artists; Para. and Nino and
The Mustafas, acrobatic stars;
The Bounding Warbles; Roland
‘Tiebor's educated sea lions; Mas
samllliano Truzzi. master juggler:
the Ward-Bell flyers; Arthur Kon
yot's performing horses, and the
MGM elephants.
There will be matinee and eye
ning performances daily, Wicklund
announced. The- Monday through
Friday matinee will start at 3:45
p. m. for the benefit of school
children, he said. Saturday‘ and
Sunday matinees will start at 2:15
p. m. and all evening perform
ances will begin at 8:15 p. m.
Circus tickets may be obtained
now from members of Nile Temple.
Reserve seats will go on sale Sep
tember 3rd, at the Seattle down
town Shrine Circus office. 2000
Fourth Avenue, SEneca 3160.
The Danes Have
Sense Of Humor
One of the great Danish assets
is a pronounced sense of,humor.
At one period during the Ger
man occupation the Nazis planned
to overawe the population of Co
penhagen. A considerable array of
tanks was assembled in the main
square. The faces of the drivers
were very grim. To them came the
small boys of the streets\ with the
question: “How much does a ticket
for the show cost?"
“How is it," a German minister
asked King Christian X during the
occupation. "that you seem to have
no Jewish problem here such as
we have in Germany?" “I sup
pose." replied the King. a very
typical Dane, “because we do not;
feel ourselves inferior to them." l
The Germans blamed the Jews;
for most of the sabotage in Copen
hagen‘. But after nearly all the
Jewa had escaped to Sweden——
leaving in Copenhagen the ven
erable Madame Texiere. mother of
the famous reciter of Andersen's
fairy tales—the sabotage contin
lued. At‘ every explosion the people
lof Copenhagen were accustomed to
isay: :Listen to that! There's old
[Madame Texiere at it again!"
Traditional Seafarlng Nation
In addition to a sense of humor.
’the Danes possess other national
assets—~i'ncluding a fondness for
the sea which stems from Viking
days.
1 Of all European countries, only
iGreat Britain is more dependent
uporgoverseas trade than Denmark.
l'l‘he steady rise in the Danish
standard of living over the hun
dred years before the outbreak of
World War II was rendered pos
sible only by the increasing im
port of raw materials. with a
parallel increase in the export of
agricultural and manufactured
goods.
Of the 558 ships which constitu
:ted the Danish merchant fleet in
.1989. no fewer than 284 were lost.‘
1for the Danes placed almost all of1
.their merchant fleet at the service
of the Allies.
A number of new vessels have
been launched since the end of the
war. but old ships are not neces-t
sarily discarded. There is still ply
ing today in the lovely Silkeborg:
district of wooded lakes and rivers!
a paddle steamer which is more
than 90 years of age. This craft
used to convey the jovial King
Frederick VII with his two friends,
——Hans Andersen-who for a longt
time thought that his own fairy
tales were rather trifling affairs ‘
and Michael Drewsen, an enter-1
prising par-an who established the}
paper I‘m at Silkehom which ,
‘prlnts Denmark‘s banknotes today. 1
10m doe- nob’hear much of the
Danish Navy, which is certainly
not large, but its officers and men
are worthy of their Viking ances
tors. When Nelson destroyed the
Danish fleet at Copenhagen. his
flagship was attacked by a Dan
ish warship of so tiny a size that
Nelson had to lean over the bul
wark in order to see it.
The young officer in command
was one Willamoes. and when Nel
son dined that night with the
Prince Regent he begged that Wil
lamoes might be promoted for
bravery. "But if I had to promote
an officer for bravery," said the
Prince, "1 would have to promote
every officer that we have.”
i In the little town of Brande, in
;the west of Jutland. a modest me
jnim'ial has been erected to a Dane
Iwho did not follow the sea. On a
rock in a small garden there is an
inscription to Enrico Mylius Dal
gas, whom it describes as “The
king of the heather. our true
l‘friend." Dalgas. who lived in the
,latter part of the 19th century.
grecognized this part of Jutland as
[one of the least fertile regions of
[Denmark Heather and rock held
'the country in an iron grip. while
Isand swept in from the dunes on
[the prevailing west wind. Led by
‘Dalgas. the Danes cleared great
areas of heather and planted trees
to arrest the wind. Now some 2.000
square miles have been brought un
der cultivation. the Work being
subsidized by the state. ‘
WARE; 13.-7 Merit—and Need ‘
Higher education in Denmark
also has its dfitinctive features.
Scholarships at Copenhagen Uni
versity, for example. are almost
without exception awarded for
need, not for merit alone. Com
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petitive examinations for scholar
ships are unknown.
Denmark is famous as an ex
porter of agricultural products.
This aspect of the country's econ
omy was given a tremendous im—
petus by the invention of the cream
separator by L. C. Nielsen, a Dane,
in 1878. The cooperative movement
in Denmark has also flourished,
achieving splendid results in dairy
and bacon factories.
Denmark is one of the chief egg
exporting countries of the world.
Every egg. through a stamping
arrangement. can be traced back
to its producer (farmer. not hen).
If bad eggs are discovered. the pro
ducer must not only refund pay
ment, but also pay a substantial
fine, which increases with any ad
ditional offense.
But Danish hens have reached
so high a standard that many
breeding birds are sold abroad as
far as to Morocco and Siam.
The Swedish Newspaper Pub
lishers Association recently ob
served its fiftieth anniversary. On
this occasion Professor Georg An
dren, a member of the First Cham~
\ber of the Riksdag. delivered the
*main address. He emphasized the
importance for newspapermen to
preserve their political independ
ence, adding that "where a free
discussion is not assured. democra~
cy cannot exist."
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