The Archive · 1938

Glasgow Empire Exhibition

World Wonder Show Proving Attractive and Tremendously Popular; Flag Day for China From OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Glasgow, July 6.

The Exhibition is not only the very best the -world has yet seen but furthermore is proving attractive and tremendously popular. It ought to be considering the time and the enormous amount of money spent on it to make it what it is.

Of course there are many who constantly ask "can it be made to pay." They wonder if it will not turn out to be a terrific financial loss, Well the figures recorded at the turn stiles reveal the increasing popularity of the World Wonder Show for that is what it is; only it is not merely (the word merely ought not to be used in connection with this colossal exhibition) a show it is a marvel of skill, ingenuity, invention, forethought and revelation, possessing an educational value thay cannot be accurately described.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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