Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-08-24
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New York, Aug. 24-There has been
so much talk among the local CAD
aoouts regarding the transparent
woman on view in the Museum of
science and Industry, in Rockefeller
Fiaza, that took a runin the other
afternoon for cape. The gal is indeed
a strange and fearsome creature.
She stands life-size in sort of oc-
tagonal dish, which lights up Indirect
ly to reveal her in all her clinical
glory. Her "skin" is a new kind of
glass, alleged to be wellnigh unbreak
able and every vein, artery and or
gan is plainly visible within, naturally
colored and wired to light up, one by
one, as the name of the organ flashes
around the rim of her pedestal.
A man named S. H Camp, of Jack
son, Michigan, who has a silver thatch
and a beignly aminahle presence.
bankrolled the construction of the
fragile lass. He has made a great for
tune, am told, out of the manufac-
ture of therapeutic elastic garments,
and has now retired, eager only to
show his gratitude to the female sex
by familiarizing the ladies with their
own liver and lights as it were. His
candid damsel will tour the land, I'M
der the auspices of various medical
and Public Health groups.
The transparent woman should be
interesting to psychologists-and per-
haps even to theatrical producers.
Several years ago 1 was in confab
with Earl Carroll, the girl-show i'm
pressario and made bold to ask him
how much further he thought the
daring" of American stage produc-
tions would go. How much more
nudity, in fine would the public and
the gendarmerie tolerate?
He lifted an eyebrow, gave me
pale smile.
Nov much more? Why, there's a
limit and there is nowhere else to
go from there. The limit has lust
about been reached because when a
fan dancer appears there isn't any
more to expose, is there?"
But he was wrong. The transparent
woman is much more revelatory than
the most liberal-minded fan waver
and yet she is about to be carried
about the country to be shown to
school children, leaders in civic life
and clubwomen. She is highly moral,
CLASSY skin, arms appraised in classic
pose while lights flash in her pan
creas. duodanum.
Indeed she reminds a little of the
wiring beneath the average city
streets, with the red and blue ar
teries and veins neatly bundled and
stretched along cartilage and bone.
Now, according to Mr.. Camp, who is
no relation of the tate Walter Camp,
any woman can learn almost as much
about her own body in an afternoon
as she, already knows about her ALL
tomobile.
She can probably learn a great deal
more. Few women I know--or men,
either, for that matter-could tell you
offhand the location and function of
a timer any more than they would be
able to identify the thyroid gland in
the human body. =
The transparent woman-there are
already three transparent men ex-
tant, none of which, they say, can
hold a candle for impressiveness to
the lady of the group, made in Dres-
den at a cost of about $50, 00O-will no
doubt serve a laudable educational
purpose. It will show the girls that
they are most definitely not made of
sugar and spice. It will rearrange
many of their notions about their
innards.
And yet it is bit disconcerting too.
With so many gadgets, each essential
to the operation of the larger machine
it occurs to you that under the law
of averages something is sure to go
wrong somewhere in the mechanism
at great cost of pain and doctors
fees. Something, indeed, usually does.
And spare parts are rarely to be had
if anything more complex than a.
molar- fails.