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Show " THE WHOLE WORLD M rimm 424 ACRES N n and a'Whole Century tfc5 'r' S in One Day! Cs l f:-. -v. i p4T , . TV"- '" ' !- -' fen , ... ,i -fcj.f fjfvr Y ' I v& r'M'l Ml . . ! MH'- ; rv"?:;;"l!' l T ' ' ,. ..... .; : . i I a i tXXX4J By ELMO SCOTT WATSON I 1 f HE gates are thrown open and Wf V. V J .' vTT through them pour the thousands. "wkw,, J f'-' i? .'"V, They surge down a broad thorough- .i ' . J. " r J -.. ' ' " rsVti:r. 7!" fare "the Avenue of Flags," where e.,.,. ..; .v"v-.r' ' '"V ii ivr''' 'f "-- hundreds of banners of every col- ' ',. :' ''iK, ,! -' . 7 "' I ' "T or, hung from "modernistic" tlag- 7; , j --" -M'-lvwi;..-;.". ' '" ; ' ."--r g'k staffs of a kind you've never seen syJT-'TIi' l . f?""?"" it J' T. So-V'' before, stream in the wind that Slitr?:''-.f.-s"'- -. IT! : ' . '. -- f :"!!:'. .ij'i' " ' ' ' "" fscV blows from oft Lake Michigan. And ?ff?i' -'''Tz. ' . 1 3 ' '" '-i ' . ! ( ; !l' - ' ', '',A . fsvvro'j then the buildings and streets and m.r?3 i .. ""elViaL-jfci..i '"''' yr avenues and terraces and gardens ' i .3 -. . - .. - t... Xel and courts and lag.ious that are i e ' .('" ". . J v M Chicago's A Century of Progress ;t ... ,', - swallow them up and their places J: - , are taken by other thousands who '.w . ( . . . .--' w follow close behind. 1 I J ''"; . " ri They are off upon a tour of the world the ( I ' ' - ' whole world spread out before their eyes with- in the space of 424 acres. Z. - A ' ' ' " - Which foreign land will you visit first, Mr. . " . . ,. 1 and Mrs. American and Young America? Shall .-, t 1 . . - ,- v, ' . .. . i it be Argentina or Algeria, Mexico or Morocco, ? .;--jn. - - . " .a . t . . Guatemala or Czechoslovakia? From the hushed V y .' V! - - O 'f'v- " .solemnity of the Golden Temple of Jehol, the ' VJX .f'' - v- ' i'i'i ,i '.j'ili' 'f 4' ' ' ; Chinese Lama temple where the Manchu em- r. "r'.-,' ; . ', ' ' ' ' ' ? ' 1 ' V ? " perors worshiped Buddha and the other gods two 1 . "" ' 1 .. , -'" ' ' centuries ago, it is but a step to a lively side- , - - .. . , , , ' walk cafe in the Montmartre section of Paris. "V . . .3 -""-"' -v Would yon prefer to be amused by dancing girls, . .' ; ?.'- .." " f'j - " V' s wrestlers, jugglers and sword fighters in a typ- CU ,-..-;-- .' ' ' ... ' '-,:'i"l ' ? - - . . ical Oriental street, or to watch the nimble 4 - 'v ,' 3 " ",' ' i - '' . S . Angers of the handicraft artisans in a Belgian - '"" - "'" ' - .' kV''-' .v.'--.V Tillage made up of transplanted portions of 2S' r"-:ZJ ' " Vv' 2hent, Bruges and Malines? The world is Q ) y - r , ; vA:V 4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON I 1 HE gates are thrown open and through them pour the thousands. They surge down a broad thorough-V thorough-V fare "the Avenue of Flags," where hundreds of banners of every col-SJi col-SJi or, hung from "modernistic" tlag-f;!3l tlag-f;!3l staffs of a kind you've never seen LcO'"1 before, stream in the wind that blows from off Lake Michigan. And then the buildings and streets and i -Wv.'j: avenues and terraces and gardens Xyll ani' courts and lag.ious that are Chicago's A Century of Progress swallow them up and their places are taken by other thousands who follow close behind. They are off upon a tour of the world the whole world spread out before their eyes within with-in the space of 424 acres. Which foreign land will you visit first, Mr. and Mrs. American and Young America? Shall it be Argentina or Algeria, Mexico or Morocco, Guatemala or Czechoslovakia? Front the hushed solemnity of the Golden Temple of Jehol, the Chinese Lama temple where the Manchu emperors em-perors worshiped Buddha and the other gods two centuries ago, it is but a step to a lively sidewalk side-walk cafe in the Montmartre section of Paris. Would yon prefer to be amused by dancing girls, wrestlers, jugglers and sword fighters in a typical typ-ical Oriental street, or to watch the nimble fingers of the handicraft artisans in a Belgian Tillage made up of transplanted portions of Ghent, Bruges and Malines? The world is "your oyster." Mr. and Mrs. American and Young America. All you have to do is open it ! No thrill In visiting foreign lands, you say? And you never liked geography in school, anyway? any-way? Then a trip 'Farthest South" by stepping down into the hold of the ship which Admiral Eyrd sailed into the Antarctic may not thrill tou. But how about stepping into the bathysphere bathy-sphere in which Dr. William Eeebe descended 2,200 feet beneath the waters of the sea, or into this featherweight aluminum globe in which Dr. August Piccard ascended 54,000 feet Into the stratosphere? Certainly you can't say "Oh, verybody goes THEKE !" If A Century of Progress were "just another world's fair," the foregoing might be representative representa-tive of "the whole world" which it offers. But there is another "world" which the visitor discovers dis-covers here the world of science and Invention, Inven-tion, the new world that has been created by the ingenuity of mankind during his progress of the past century. And this is the world which offers the thrills, for unlike expositions of the past with the customary static rows of still exhibits," A Century of Progress is a show in motion. Movement . . . action . . . things in the process of making or being . . . Life! That is the world that is unfolded before your eyes. One o the most important tilings in making this possible is the diorama, a small stage with a realistically realistical-ly painted background and three-dimensional actors built in perspective in the foreground. Dioramas have been used for years In museums, but here machines and chemical reagents take the place of stuffed animals. Molecules and Ions perform for you. You "see" a radio wave bringing you your favorite music or the voice of your favorite comedian. You stand in front of one case and push a lever or two and under your hand an earthquake is produced, geysers spout boiling water and volcanoes belch forth lava and gas. For a moment you are a god on liount Olympus! You stand before "The Transparent Man," a model of the human body heroic in size. Y'our ye possesses the penetrating power of X-rays and you see the nervous, respiratory, circulatory, circula-tory, digestive and muscular systems in action. You gaze upon a cross-section of a twig (enlarged (en-larged many times) and you see the cells In It growing. You are looking at Life ! The history of the human race might be written writ-ten in terms of its means of transportation. So come down to this Greek theater on the shore of the lake with its triple stage, including river, canal and deep-sea harbor front, as well as land. 1. A part of the crowd of children who throng that five-acre wonderland, the Enchanted island, is-land, every day. 2. Replica of the Golden Temple of Jehol, seat of worship of the Manchu emperors and the finest existing example of Chinese Lama architecture. archi-tecture. 3. "Bozo" He lives! He breathes! He rolls! And he is one of the many devices on The Midway, Mid-way, "the City of a Million Lights," which provide pro-vide the thrills, dizzy turns, flops and spins for amusement-seekers. 4. Robot, the Mechanical Man, who can do almost al-most anything a real man can after you press a button to start him! 5. Inside the log walls of Fort Dearborn. From this little palisaded fortification of a century and a quarter ago grew a modern city of more than three million people. 6. Young America's dream realized! What boy hasn't visualized himself actually "running a real train"? Here it is something of a miniature, minia-ture, it is true, but "real," nevertheless. IS) Before you pass the pageant of travel rumbling rum-bling ox-cart, Conestoga wagons, stage-coach, post-chaise, locomotives and railway cars of every description, a Y'ankee clipper ship, Itobert Fulton's steamboat, the first automobiles, the Wright's first airplane and the giant vehicles of land and sea and air of today. You see a whole century of history passing in review before be-fore you. (Did you, by chance, drive your own car here? Do you know how many parts make up a modern automobile and what takes place under the hood to "make it go"? In one place you see the whole process of making an automobile auto-mobile from the time the raw ore is converted into steel until the shiny new car comes off the assembly liue. Movement . . . action . . . things In the process of making or being . . . Life!) The whole world in 424 acres and ... a hundred hun-dred years in one day ! Yes, even more than a hundred years. Over here is a building from which "the centuries look down upon you." It Is the Maya Temple, the famed Nunnery at Ux-mal, Ux-mal, Yucatan, relic of a civilization that was old, old. old; when Columbus touched the shores of North America. And two minutes walk from this building with Its fantastically carved walls and Its brilliant colors are the houses in which we may find ourselves living during the next few years steel houses, glass houses, houses of building material undreamed of during an era of brick, wood and stone construction, houses which are unlike any houses ever before con- ceived by man. (Some day will a future great American he born in one of those houses, as a great American was born in that log hut which stands over there the replica of a famous dwelling place which once stood near Hodgen-ville, Hodgen-ville, Ky.?) Come to the Hall of Social Sciences and look upon another type of history, social history, the history of an American family. It is a revolving stage. First the Colonial family appears. The women are spinning, weaving, drying fruits and meats, while the children play at the work of their elders. A screen descends and the family appears In a house which is part of a village, a self-sustaining self-sustaining community, with church, school and a courthouse. Out of the village leads- a boggy road over which a horseman struggles with a stagecoach. The stage revolves to show the family of 1933 city dwellers in an apartment house, with telephone and radio. Cans on the shelf show the nature of the food supply. Outside one glimpses amusement houses, parks, schools and factories. The boggy road has been replaced by the motor mo-tor highway and railroad, while an airplane soars above. Just a bit dizzy, Mr. and Mrs. American, from looking at the whole world compressed Into this small space and watching the centuries roll past your eyes? Better give heed then to Young America's plea "I want to go over to the Enchanted Island" he knows he will find there the stuff of which childhood's dreams are made: a magic mountain down which to slide, a sure-enough fairy castle, a miniature railroad and heroic figures of toys and story book characters. char-acters. How to get there? Why, take the Sky Ride, of course. What the Eiffel Tower was to the Paris exposition and the Ferris Wheel was to the World's Fair of '93, the Sky Ride is to A Century of Progress, They call It "the supreme thrill of A Century of Progress." But it Is more than just the outstanding out-standing amusement thrill of the big show of '33. It points the way to a vehicle of transportation transpor-tation of the future, an aerial, ferry which may make modern suspension bridges obsolete. So its C2S-feet steel towers, the highest man-made structures west of New York, and its rocket cars, symbolize not only the progress of the past century but the progress of the next century cen-tury to come as well. ( by Western Newspaper Union.) |
