Shakespeare Land

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

Shakespeare Land

Magnet Which Draws Americans to England JAPANESE. VISITORS Stratford-on-Avon is the Mecca ©- American tourists in Europe. They dream of Shakespeare while crossing the Atlantic and do not rest until they have spent at least a few hours in Stratford and viewed the birthplace, the school, Hathaway cottage, and everything even remotely associated with the poet. Last year 16,864 Americans sigr.ed l the register at the birthplace, and there were numbers of others who did register. This year’s figures v ll larger. _ Recently a party of 40 girl studen j from Newcombe College, New OrNearuwas conducted by Mr. E. H. r J who ha s been in charge of similar pa - ties for 13 years. He said that had guided more than 3,000 Ame n _ students through the district this > ‘ Miss Frotscher, one of the chaperc of the party, said: — « “We are all reared on Shakes!*? • and we claim England’s liters tu our own. All w-e see here are j ' familiar landmarks. I don’t thin ■ cf us are surprised. What we a new and intensely pleasing ;i r beautiful hedges and lanes » * country. We have all knovm Hathaway’s garden long before Among other visitors to from foreign lands are many who take an extraordinary de is L Shakespeare,