Mozart at Baden-Baden

The Mozart Festivals which were long an annual August feature at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, will hereafter be held at Baden-Baden earlier in the Summer. The reasons are practical. Salzburg was exquisitely appropriate, a quaint, ancient city in beautiful hill country. But it was awkward to get down to that section of Austria by rail, and Salzburg offered only mediocre accommodations for assembled tourists.

Baden-Baden, long a favorite resort for sports and the baths, is a city of hotels and railroad facilities. The year's Mozart Festival was held there in June. People railroaded quickly there from all parts of Germany. Many Americans came from Paris over very convenient transporting lines. The resort is just across the military lines which the French have established in Germany, but the state of semi-war did not impede their travel to the Mozart Festival. . . .