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Show The Dreams of My Heart 201 Elsdorf, Cologne, Pforzheim, and Frankfurt, in Germany; Amsterdam and The Hague in The Netherlands; and Boston on their return. The trip lasted for nearly a month, from November 14 to December 11, 1952. Elizabeth, Judith, and Brian saw them off in Denver. Barnard, a student at M.LT., met them in Boston and showed them around the campus and took them to church. Their trip to the sugar factories in northern England brought the stark reality of the English climate as they almost froze in the unheated houses. In London they saw the stage productions of "Dial M For Murder," and "Waters of the Moon," a comedy with Dames Sybil Thorndike and Edith Evans, Kathleen Harrison and Wendy Hiller. At the Poplars in Ipswich Madelyn got "a perfect picture of home life in England." The rooms were very cold, but a covered hot water bottle in the bed helped, and she women joined English in wearing a down puff. Back in London, the sugar business done, they went to hear Maurice Chevalier-"the incomparable talk-singing and pantomime of our old matinee idol."! They returned to Belgium, where Harold went to the sugar factories of Tirlemont. Upon his return in the evening he and Madelyn attended "Rigoletto," which, Madelyn wrote, was "magnificent, beautiful, glorious, moving.":' They traveled by car through Liege into Germany at Aachen (Aix La Chapelle) and on to Cologne, Frankfurt, and Pforzheim. Her diary is full of descriptions of the damage caused by the war and of the privation of the people: streets of desolation, homes torn open, open staircases and careening floors. Madelyn's com ment about Frankfurt: "Frankfurt is like a brilliant American with ruins and sickening rumors of evil and city, interspersed corruptiori.?" After five days in Germany, they went to Eindhoven and on to Amsterdam in the Netherlands. At nearly all locations they located and visited with members of the LDS Church, both Americans and Europeans. Always, as Europeans drank coffee, she ordered chocolate. She loved European chocolates and chocolate milk. Several times in her trip diary she comments on the superiority of Belgian, Dutch, and Swiss chocolate and wonders why "Neither |
