Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the title of Texas "Bluebonnet Girl."† And last week at San Antonio, Governor Allred crowned Janice Jarrat, artists' model (whose portrait appears on the cover of June Cosmopolitan) as the "Sweetheart of Texas Centennial" with the duty of acting as mistress of ceremonies at all the Fair's broadcasts, appearing at all major Centennial celebrations during the next three months...
More exceptional will be a Negro Life Building (culture, not insurance); exhibits of the oil industry, among which will be a Hall of Religion provided by Lone Star Gas Co.; a radio theatre where audiences can see and hear Fair broadcasting, provided by Gulf Refining Co.; a jungle full of life-size dinosaurs provided by Sinclair...
...extra 50? visitors will be able to see the "Cavalcade of Texas" on a 300-ft. stage at the race track of the fair grounds, complete with all six flags, with cowponies and Wild West resurrected. And for untold small change there will be about 100 side shows on a Midway put together by Paul Massman who managed such matters in Chicago and San Diego. Some of its ventures: "Streets of Paris" for lovers of the nude; "Streets of All Nations" for lovers of the seminude; an "English Village"; Shakespeare plays acted by students of Carnegie Tech. ; Warden Lawes...
Second difficulty of the Dallas Fair was a shortage of time. Although the Centennial as a whole was planned more than twelve years ago, the Dallas Exposition did not get a good start until last autumn. Over 40 buildings had to be erected, two whole golf courses bought, cut up into sod and used to grass the Exposition. For the last few months, 7,000 to 10,000 workmen have been working three shifts a day. On every job was a big sign reading " - days until June 6. We shall not fail." Last week the fateful numbers on the sign...
Third difficulty of the Dallas Fair was to make its visitors comfortable. Fearful that ignoramuses from distant States would not regard Texas as the ideal summer recreation grounds which they claim it to be, the Fair's managers announced that 80% of its buildings would be air-cooled. More ambitious were the Fair's publicity men who announced that Dallas would be cooled every evening by breezes from the Gulf of Mexico (250 miles away). More serious than heat was the question of housing. For a city such as Chicago, with over 3,000,000 population, to welcome...