The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-04-26

By NEA Service
NEW YORK, April 26.-(UP).
From a rambling old building on
the west side of mathematician,
these days and nights, come
shrieks and roarS mingled with
heavy blows and the tOrturOuS
whining of saws. Inside, men are
busy with huge forms in all
stages of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. It's
the house of monsterS-the lair
of the saber-tooth tiger, the den
of the dlnoSaur, the cave of the
platybeloden. A mammoth, IA
feet high, sways reStleSsly in his
crowded quarters. \ giant go
rilla roars menacingly at all who
come near. 4 shovcl-jawed ele-
plant trumDetS his wrath.
p. 7. Barnum couldn't have
dreamed of them. H. G. Wells
had only the vaguest idea of
them. Not even Noah. skipper of
the ark ever saw anything like
them. But MessrS. George Mess
more and Joseph Damon. an eX-
butcher and a former stage-hand,
have brought them terrifying TO
life.
ERASE MILLION YEARS
Messmore and Damon. material
izers of Nightmares, anlmatOrS of
monstrositieS, are about to lead
a cavalcade of prehistoricS to Chi
cago and the Century of Progress
exposition. There, in ! special
hemisphericaI building labeled
The World a Million Years
Ago" they'll stable their awe-in-
spring pets and then wait hope
fully to see whether the gate re-
ceipts will justify their half-mII-
lion-dollar investment.
The partners see nothing in
congruous about brontasauri. ape
men and other dawn-age crea-
lures. attending an ultra-modern
fair. They'll tell you that moth
ing is more modern than the
powered mechanismS and sound
synchronizing devices with which
these things axe endowed. "A
mere century" Snorts Mr.. Mess
more. "Wr'r" going TO show
them Ten Thousand Centuries Of
Progress"
SLOTH is TERRIFYING
Take tor at least cOnsiderl the
giant sloth, for example. Within
that steel and paper-machine
frame. covered with luXuriant
fur. are a half dozen motors that
make the giant body weave, its
mouth oDen and close in snarling
hate. its eyes roll. it's claws close
convulsively. At the exposition the
sloth will be shown struggling
desperately to free himself from
an asphalt pit as a Sabcr-tOoth
tiger, at the edge. gathers HIM
self for a spring, lust such a !
primitive drama must have been
enacted cons ago, for the SNele-
tons of the sloth and the tiger
were found in La Brea Pit IN
California.
The mammoth is made to move
realistically by Is motors, is COW
cred with the hides of 42O Mon
golian goats, and required yea"
TO build. Roy Chapman Andrews
and the other experts Of the
American Museum of Natural
History have been in consultation
with Damon and MesSmOre. fig
uring out how this and other pre-
historic monsters must have look
ed and moved
Theirs will not be the only
worlds fair display that the part
ners have designed and construct
ed. Several elaborate panoramic
scenes, some equipped with mo-
ton and sound, have been assem-
bled for railroad exhibits by a
corps of cabinet makers, cleo
tricians, artists, sculptOrs, topog-
raphers and even tailOrS. Repro
ducing the whole city of Wash
ingtOn, in miniature, was Just one
of their jobs.
Then there was the matter of
Stella, the COW. A concern sell
ing farm and dairy equipment
wanted a perfect reproduction of
a cow which apparently would
breathe. chew its eud, switch its
tail, moo plaintively-and give
milk.
HoLSTEIN is MODEL
Mr.. Damon, who knows where