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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936
TEXAS’. $25,000,000 FAIR OPENS JUNE 6
City of Dallas Plans Real Southern Welcome for Throngs Who Will
Visit Centennial Exposition This Summer.
By WILLIAM C. UTLEY *
’ELCOME to Dallas!” The sign is going up in the city
where the $25,000,000 World’s Fair of the Southwest
opens June 6. With every intention of according to the
millions of sightseers expected at the Texas Centennial
Exposition which will remain open until November 26, a real, old-
fashioned southern welcome, Dallas is undoubtedly one of the busiest
cities of the land today.
Her beautiful “salesladies,” the Rangerettes, 50 of the fairest
daughters of the Lone Star state, have for the last few months busied
themselves with gadding about the country presenting various celebri
ties with 10-gallon hats and 24-carat^
kisses, and spreading the news that this
is to be one of the most picturesque,
historically fascinating and recreation-
ally diverting fairs in the annals of ex
positions.
Now it’s up to the home folks to make
good the promises of their much photo
graphed lady ambassadors and put on a
show for the victims who have fallen prey
to their charms.
Fair Speeds to Completion.
This the Texans are doing in a big
way. ’ Three shifts of men, working
night and day, are putting the finishing
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touches* on the buildings, exhibits,
parks and amusement areas so that
they will open complete and on time.
Anyone who has doubts that this can
be done need only be reminded of A
Century of Progress, the World’s fair
which had a two-years’ run in. Chicago.
The night before opening day, Chicago
citizens, peering over the fences for a
preview, went back to their homes
heartsick in the conviction that the
fair was still months from completion.
They returned to the grounds In the
The grounds, which embody chiefly
the $4,000,000 plan of the Texas state
fair, cover 200 acres. Over this vast
area is rising a fairyland city of un
usual buildings, characterized by mas
sive pile, unbroken sweep of wall and
gay, painted borders. 'Architecture is
of the classic modern type, with a def
inite pueblo influence. City, state and
federal governments, and exhibitors
and concessionnaires are combining
their efforts to make up the whole.
Lagoons Are Decorative.
At the main entrance is to be an
esplanade, *300 feet wide and 1,000 feet
long, leading to the Texas Hall of
States. Centering the esplanade will be
a huge reflecting basin with concealed
lights shining through the water to il
luminate the surrounding buildings.
Flanking the basin are to be two per
manent buildings, the halls of trans
portation and varied industries.
The beauty of water will be a delight
frequently to meet the eye in this fair,
for yet another lake will appear in the
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Bill Pack, young rodeo star, and Lucy Ann Snell, Rangerette hostess,
snapped on the facade of the $250,000 administration building of the Texas
Centennial exposition which opens in Dallas June 6.
morning, to find the scene completely
changed and the job finished, so swift
ly do the builders of modern exposi
tions work.
The opening of the Fair will be the
culmination of preliminary celebrations
held in various cities throughout the
state, commemorating 100 years of
Texaa Independence. This independ
ence, gained by revolution against the
government of Mexico in 1835-36, plus
the richly dramatic events which fol 1
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“The most beautiful girl I have ever
seen" is the way Walter Winchell de
scribed Frances Nalle, Dallas red-head
and queen of the Rangerettes who have
Seen used to publicize the exposition.
owed, and with which anyone who has
itedled history in the public schools Is
generally familiar, forms the back
ground for the exposition.
It will not be the purpose of this ac-
Munt to review the historic events which
he fair commemorates, for there ere
nany books which do it far more thor
oughly. Rather it will be an attempt to
-over briefly what ihe visitor to Dallas
his summer can expect to see.
civic center, and a symphony shell will
decorate its banks. A giant fountain will
act as a centerpiece landmark for this
lagoon.
Largest of all the exposition build
ings is to be the $1,200,000 Texas Hall
of State, a native white limestone
structure with an elaborate court which
was dedicated on San Jacinto day,
April 27. Its historical wing will house
hundreds of fascinating treasures of
the revolution and the days of the re
public which followed, its exhibits con
tinuing chronologically through the en
tire period of statehood up to the pres
ent day. The Hall of Heroes will pay
tribute to the men who founded Texas,
while other sections of the building will
be devoted to displays of the social
and industrial life of the state.
Plan Diversified Exhibits.
Of the buildings constructed by the
exposition itself, the most important
are the halls of transportation and var
ied industries, which will house exhib
its of the character indicated in their
names, and the buildings of the farm
center, five in all. In these latter struc
tures will be conducted livestock, agri
cultural, poultry and food shows, and
related exhibits.
Exhibits in ihe exposition will fall into
several major groups, such as agriculture,
livestock, science, arts, industry, educa
tion, history, domestic arts and home
planning, electricity and communications,
transportation, petroleum and mineral re
sources, natural history and aquatic life,
etc.
Hundreds of fine specimens of south
western game and bird life will be
mounted in habitat groups In the hall
of natural history. The aquarium of
the exposition, one of the largest In
the United States, will be stocked with
myriad varieties of salt and fresh wa
ter fish, in 66 different tanks and pools.
In another building, the great air
cooled exposition auditorium, which
seats 4,600 persons, will be found al
most continuous entertainment, includ
ing grand opera, musical comedy, cele 1 -
brated orchestras, folk festivals and
pageants. Each night a southwestern
utility company will present some out
standing Broadway musical show or
stage play. Another utility has built
a hall of religion, in which all creeds
will participate.
Flowers and Music.
For the nature lover, the hall of
horticulture will be near approach to
heaven. It will be surrounded by flower
gardens where hundreds of varieties of
roses, wild flowers and other floral
gems will be growing. Strolling the
gardens, the visitor will be able to hear
the music from the symphony shell on
the lagoon nearby, where outdoor pro
grams will be given daily during the
exposition.
Elaborate industrial exhibits are planned
by some of the nation's largest corpora-
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Andrew Jackson Houston, 82, is the
only living son of Gen. Sam Houston,
and will be one of the outstanding fig
ures in the Centennial at Dallas.
tions. In the Hkll of varied industries,
electricity and communications, for ■ in
stance, will be found General Electric,
Wesdnghouse, the American Telephone
and Telegraph company, du Pont and
other manufacturers.
In the hall of transportation and pe
troleum will be the displays of the
great automobile and airplane manu
facturers, as well as the oil companies.
The petroleum show will be inspired
by Texas’ leadership in the production
of oil.
Midway Takes Shape.
No matter If he misses many of the
cultural and educational exhibits the
average visitor never fails to find his
way to the Midway of a world’s fair.
At Dallas the. seeker after entertain
ment will fin'd it plehtiful. Already
nearing completion are the German
Black Forest village, the English vil
lage, the famous Old Globe theater of
Sixteenth century London, and other
gay spots which were outstanding hits
of the World's fair in Chicago and will
probably be repeated in many world’s
fairs to come.
The visitor’s comfort will by no means
be-overlooked by the hospitable Texans.
Already steps are being taken to shelter
the world?s fair wayfarer, especially the
visitor from the cooler regions of the
North, from the Texas sun. Six hundred
large trees have been planted for their
shade value as well as the natural beauty
they will add to the scene. Also of dec
orative importance are the 50,000 shrubs
which will be set out before opening day.
Leading among the show attractions
is the “Cavalcade of Texas,” a vast
pageant which will be produced on a
stage 350 feet .across and 200 feet
deep, and will dramatize the history oL
the Lone Star state, beginning with
the landing of the conquistadores in
1519. Many of the 300 actors In the
extravaganza will be descendants of
the heroes and heroines whom they
will impersonate.
Pageant Is Ambitious One.
Audiences at this giant spectacle
will see on the stage artificial rivers
with Spanish galleons and pirate ships
floating upon them. Massed singing
choruses will include cowboys, Fran
ciscan friars, revolutionary and con
federate soldiers, trail drivers and
Texas rangers. Stage coaches, cov
ered wagons, Spanish armor, frontier
rifles, long horn cattle and buffalo
will be among the colorful properties.
It is said that the pageant will far
outdo even the magnificent “Wings of
a Century,” pageant of transportation
which played to more than 2,000,000
persons at the Chicago fair.
Unique among theatrical effects will be
the “curtain” between scenes. This will
be nothing more than a vast sheet of fine
water spray, 100 feet high, ivith colored
lights playing upon it to produce the
mood of the scene to follow. So large is
the stage, even great battle scenes will be
enacted.
Dallas itself is being beautified In
anticipation of a great influx of sum
mer visitors. Fifty street cars and a
number of buses are being added to the
transportation systems to hi^dle the
crowds. Civic plans Include the estab
lishment of adequate housing facilities.
Permanent guests are being asked to
move out of the hotels, and manage
ments are pledging definite numbers of
rooms for exposition visitors. At
Southern Methodist university dormi
tory rooms will be opened to summer
guests, and at the Hockaday School
for Girls dormitories will be held open
part of the summer for guests. Hun
dreds of private homes have listed
rooms which will be available to the
traveler. The city’s department of in
formation Is ready to offer what serv
ices it can.
® WesUra Newspaper Union.
Baseball's 100th Birthday
to Be Observed This Yeai
The birth of baseball at Coppers-
own, N. Y., will be celebrated there
this summer on its 100th anniver
sary. The Albany legislature is being
asked to vote $5,000 toward study
ing the development of the game
from the beginning and to advertise
the celebration. The field on which
the first game was played is called
Doubleday field after the inventor of
the game. The baseball museum of
records of the sport and its greatest
players also is located at Cuopers-
town.
SKEPTICAL YEGGS
Pasted next to the knob of the
safe In the Liberty Oil company
office In Des Moines, Iowa, was a
placard which stated, “There is no
money in this safe.” As a clincher,
the placard bore the combination.
But burglars ignored the sign, blast
ed open the safe, obtained $10.
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