SPECTACULAR FAIR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 8

SPECTACULAR FAIR

CHICAGO PREPARATIONS MANY INTERESTING EXHIBITS [from our ows correspondent] NEW YOEK, March 16 The chief thrill for visitors to the Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago from June to November next will be the "sky ride" 'in rocket cars dangling from a span suspended from 625 ft. steel towers between Soldier's Field Stadium, which has the r , same capacity as Wembley, and an island throe furlongs distant—slightly more than the length of Sydney Harbour Bridge. The installation cost £30(3.,000. The entire exhibition covers 424 acres of land and water. Construction to date has cost £1,500,000. One exhibit, the replica of Fort Dearborn, the infant Chicago, has practically paid for itself since it was opened two years ago. This building and the Golden Pavilion of Jehol, an exquisitely wrought Lama temple of . the Manchu 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 stockade containing replicas of five buildings associated with the life of Abraham Lincoln—the one-roomed cabin in Kentucky, in which he was born 124 years ago; his Indiana boyhood home;" the Illinois store in which he sold blue jeans, calico and molasses; the tavern in which he courted Ann Rutledge, and the Wigwam, in Chicago, in which he was nominated for the Presidency in 1860. The historical nofe is continued in groifps of exhibits and trophies, symbolising the Monroe Doctrine, the Open Door in China, Freedom of the Seas, the Kellogg-Briand Anti-Wai Pact, the Washington Conference anc the London Naval Limitation Treaty There will be displays of mammotl engineering works, such as the Panami Canal and the survey of the Nicaragui Canal, which is to be still greater the Colorado River dam, destined t( supply seven States with light, heat, power and water; huge wind tunnels for testing aeroplanes; a dozen fine ship models, and numerous other historic emblems of the shaping of national policy ,in modern defence. / Hollywood, centre of the youngest and most dynamic'of the industries of tho past century, will have 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.