SPECTACULAR FAIR

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1933, Page 6

SPECTACULAR FAIR

CHICAGO PREPARATIONS. . MANY INTERESTING EXHIBITS NEW YORK, April 16. Tlio chief thrill for visitors to the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago from -June to November next will be the “sky ride” in rocket cabs dangling from a span suspended from tf2sft steel towers between Soldiers’ Eeild Stadium, 'which has the same capacity as WeiiibTj”, ’ an'3 "aii island three furlongs distant—slightly rfiore than the length of Sydney Harbour Bridge. The installation cost' ;'£3f)o,'000'. The entire exhibition . covers. 424 acres of land and Aatfer. Coustriietiori to date has cost £1;500,000. OrcT exhibit, the"' f eplrchr'bf Fort Dearborn, the infant Chicago, has practically paid for itself since it;was opened two years ago: .. This building and the Golden Pavilion of •!ehol, an exquisitely wrought Llama temple of the Manehu dynasty,, provide a striking contrast to their 20th century surroundings, typified by a large model of the city of Washington. A dramatic representation of. national growth is given in a log stpekade containing replicas of five build-. ing.s associated with the life of Abraham Lincoln—the one-roomed cabin in Kentucky, in which be was born 1.24 years ago; his Indiana boyhood' homo; the Illinois store in which lie sold blue jeans, calico and molasses; the tavern in which he courted Ann Rutledge, and the Wigram, in Chicago, in which he was nominated for the Presidency in 1860. The historical note is continued in groups of exhibits .and trophies, symbolising the Monroe Doctrine, the Op‘ii Door in China, Freedom of the ,‘>as, the - Kellogg-Briand Anti-War Pact, the Washington Conference and •A’guojj/ uoicpxpuu'j There will be displays of mammoth engineering works, such as the Panama Canal and the survey of the Nicaragua Canal, which is to be still greater; the Colorado River dam, destined to supply seven" States with light, heat, power and water; huge wind tunnels for testing aeroplanes; a dozen fine ship models, and numerous other historical emblems of the shaping of national;*, polity in modern defence.

Hollywood, centre of the youngest and most dynamic of the industries of the. past century, will liaye a section of the, fair to itself, in which every phase' of the motion picture industry will be exhibited, even to screen tests for girls aspiring to “movie” careers.