South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-06-10
MIDWAY AND ZONE
HAVE HAD DAY At
BIG FAIR FEATURE
"High-BroW" Exhibits at Pana-
ma-PaCifiC Show Are Ones
That Are Attracting Most
Attention.
BY ellison Gardner.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 1O-Strang-
~ enough il is the high throw" fea-
lures OF expOsitiOns which are popu-
lar these days. The Coney Island
features, the Midway" and the
Zone" have had their dav. The crowd
are in the Palace OF Education. The
"Oochee- koochee" band ceases to at
tract, but the management here aC-
tually has made a profit by bringing
Ut Kari Muck and his Boston sym
phOny orchestra from Boston
The answer. OF course. is the mod
ern department store and the over
done amusement park. also the ten
cent moving picture show. There Us
very little today that any exposition
can show in the way OF industrial arts
that has not been shown in the great
department store. At first the loom
in operation was a novelty and certain
products of the artizan's skill were
first shown at these eXpOsitious, now
they have been seen ia all our larger
cities. and 50 of the dime catching
shows Everybody has done it once.
and once is enough of that particular
kind of fun. And why pay quarter
TO see the Battle of Gettysburg or the
War Of the Worlds. when for ten cents
YOU can see all the stars OF the movie
armament
Looking For Instruction.
Thus 70 happens that the crowds are
found around the improving and IN
structive booths They are looking
at the child-saving exhibit. the dolls
which have the suffrage ON one side
OF the wall and the disfranCnised dolls
on the other at the beautiful trleZe IN
the Union Labor headquarters, the
antf-tuberculosis charts the model
farms and the government exhibits OF
go, a
such like things. It is not that the
public has suddenly develoDed pas
sion for the "uplft." but ,he public
likes things il has not seen ana does
not know about. So IL passes 10y the
weaving. the cutlery and the JIM
crack layout and fingers at the pop
ularized statistics.
Thus the big successes of the San
Francisco exposition are its archl-
tee raI beauties, notably ITS color |
scheme and lighting effect, It's apun-
dance OF good music, and its hlgh- /
brow features.
Artist Ideas Carried Out.
Everybody has heard of the soft /
pastel colored buildings, but some |
may not know the rightly with which /
the artists ideas were carried out /
Jules Guerin was given the say-so as /
10 color and so particular was he that |
there should be no Earring note, that
when the various frescoe artists came
10 do their work they found that |
Guerin had arranged to have TO |
paints used except those served out /
from q paint corral i'm the middle or
the grounds where the only pastel /
shades which he had chosen were |
mixed These were served out TO the |
artists. and they had 10 paint with |
them or not at ALL
When the grounds were almost /
ready 1t was found that the Sahu ana
gravel walks did not harmonic Wen
with the pastel shades, so the SAND
had to be all collected, put into ovens
and baked with some color material
until il received the necessary pinkish
brown color.
The pastel shades. the light pinks,
hines and green's, are much better for /
cement structures, much more rest
full to the eye. than the pure white. [
At Panama this is well illustrated,
where the old Spanish city, which is
tinted. is restfully picturesque, Wnle
the new government buildings.
though we'll designed. and expensive,
as iarringly white and staring
Also the Pop Corn Man.
II YOU want real enthusiasm for the
eXposition's beauty, take note or the
employs-the pop corn
man. the hoy who pushes your chair
or the person who attends an exhibit
Ii is evident from their feelings that
real beauty does not pail. BE sure
YOU come at shutdown they VIII urge.
'.be sure you see Maybeck Palace or
Fine Arts from across the lagoon.
Have YOU seen the little bronze fig
ure called the Whatsoever and so
on They are all enthusiastic ana
most appreciative of the really beau
tiful
This exposition. like all eXpositions'
covers acres of ground and is q wearl-
hr
"a view Of the general architectural
picture is from the White Worm as
they call tho miniature auto-Uram
which runs around i'm the grounds.
The rush chairs and the electric 500
COOS are all right for those who can
nav FOR the push. However, there are
many hOspitable benches and rest
rooms.
Altogether the Panama-Pacihc eN-
nosftion is we'll worth the seeing. even
though a trip across the continent ne
a condition precedent