Dear Folks, I know that I'm getting a bit ahead of myself right now regarding my father's 1938 trip to Europe, but I'm on a roll now and so this is Part 4. 1938 TRIP TO FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND February 3, 2004 Investigating more thoroughly Daddy's "second" scrapbook I learned a bit more about his trip to France aboard the Ile de France. At first there was a picture of a young woman dancing in a long gown and with a headdress that suggested her origins as being from Greece, Turkey or even Lebanon. She certainly wasn't a belly dancer but nonetheless there was the suggestion of a bit of sexy dancing going on there. A couple of pages further into the scrapbook there's an 8 x 10 glossy of an even more exotic dancer (properly covered, of course) who looked even more Mediterranean. Not only that but inscribed on the photograph was quite a lengthy autograph she apparently signed for my father personally. Oh my goodness, he must have been having a good time aboard ship! Note: I can't make out one single word she wrote, darn it! In addition there's a charcoal sketch made of my father aboard ship by an artist on apparently November 26, 1938. Note; I don't even know it that date fits in with the time he was aboard or not but that's what it looks like to me. The artist's name appears to be Camille and even though it's really not a very good likeness, I can still recognize Daddy. Assuming that their ship first landed in Plymouth, England, as Daddy had mentioned previously, I also assume that they eventually disembarked in Le Havre and quickly made their way to Paris. And in the scrapbook is the cablegram that he sent to my mother at 133-81st, Niagara Falls, NY, on November 25, 1938. ARRIVED SAFE IN PARIS Charles Now maybe tomorrow I'll have the opportunity to put together some semblance of order regarding Daddy's experiences while he was in Paris. Of course I'll tell you about the post cards he pasted into his scrapbook picturing the Eiffel Tower and the Arch de Triumph and all of that jazz, but I guess I'll have to somehow get past trying to describe the many-paged glossy illustrated program he saved from the "Acazar de Paris" that showed many of the naked ladies in it! I guess that all that I can say on the subject right now is that it was all "artistically" done at that time. Just don't press me on how I feel on the details right now.