Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1937, Page 100

THm STINRAY STAD WASHINGTON, D. C. AUGUST 1, 1937 TO MAKE THIS MODEL ALL YOU NEED ARE SCISSORS, PASTE AND WRAPPING PAPER Figure 1 - Figure 2 _ . : e e FOREGROUND in BACKCROUND i 5 e BN 0 FRAME folds down. 3 curves anc pastes flaps fold up- back of FRAME, - - right, as do i even with inside edge. g&;" g both ends. " > 7 Top edges even. . abs i a . By HOLLING CLANCY HOLLING Wiegaiaa v e READ THESE EASY DIRECTIO! You Will Be Surprised With What You Can Do With This Page Boys and girls, this page looks funny, doesn’t it? It’s hard to tell what it’s all about. Everything seems to Get a pair of scissors, some paste and heavy brown wrapping paper. Here is an easy Diorama to put together. Cut the Diorama parts from this page because it is easier to paste them down separately. Don’t trim to outlines until later. With a small cloth swab spread paste evenly over the wrapping paper. Now lay the Diorama pieces on the pasted be in pieces. But if you will cut out the pieces, paste wrapping paper and smooth them down. Put them under them on wrapping paper and then assemble them you R - Figure 3 weights such as magazines so they will dry flat. will have an amazing diorama or stage setting show- . LEFT WING tabs'into y When dry, trim neatly to outlines. Make all inside cuts ing a giant China Clipper seaplane flying over Hawaii CHINA CLIPPER. > ", 2 f,:l?]esllc’r[\'sf Scorel all dott]ed lines for folding—with a bhunt on its way across the Pacific Ocean to Hongkong. ' Look at FIGUKE 1. Notice how the FOREGROUND The plane is suspended in air and actually seems to folds down in FRAME. Three inside pieces and the two edges fly. It is so easy anyone can build it. Did you ever fold upright. see stage hands put up scenery on a bare empty owf\ig:(vi 13?115 a;aFX&GI;Ihlzi 2;0 Fboldken?sgi?ifi%xm?ol}mn o . . ste S ac 0! a o stage? In just a little while they change the bare Note that the BACKGROUND curves around a:d scgr‘::s stage to a beautiful, realistic setting. Well, you do even with inside edge of FRAME, its top edge even with the same thing with the diorama pieces on this page. top edge of FRAME. Tabs 1, 2, 3, 4, § and 6 of FORE- Everything fits together as if by magic. Remember GROUND fit into slits in BACKGROUND. there is a new one each Sunday. Next week—a col- orful one showing the waterfront at Hongkong. In FIGURE 3 is shown how to assemble the LEFT WING of the CHINA CLIPPER with tabs 7, 8 and 9. Fold Start to build your own Museum today. It’s more fun than any game WING TAB down. FINISHED DIORAMA shows the CHINA CLIPPER in place in the Diorama by inserting Wing Tab 10 and Rudder ; Tab 11 into the BACKGROUND slits. SAVE THIS DIORAMA FOR YOUR WORLD MUSEUM behind i'll:dOUfldcemeiflh- S e Paste this end to back of Frame, so that this fold is even with inside edge of Frame (see Sketch at top of page). e} o = s Ed @ 3 2a L o0 [-N-4 =g 3 mx = g 3 o ‘7 = ;\m a3 oo Lo g2 S 5% g 3@ s &= G ®a o< o 3 £ £ 5 2. -3 o BACKGROUND The Wake Islands were coral atolls, the highest point only 21 feet above sea level, inhabited only by rats, seabirds and crabs. On one of them, because landing places are scarce in that part of the Pacific, . was built a hotel for passengers, quarters for the Pan American employes who live there, a hangar, and a track to haul the planes ashore for inspection and refueling. There were a few people and a cable station on the Midway Islands, but there, too, a small, complete community had to be built. Guam has always been inhabited. It is small but an important U. S. navy | base. The CHINA CLIPPER does not fly straight through. Between (i San Francisco and Honolulu passengers sleep while flying, but on other hops they sleep overnight on the islands. THE WORLD MUSEUM OF SHINGTON STAR or 03 AF TP 1 P INGRM e oA S it 3 B TS SR SO Cut down to dotted n UT ON WHITE LINE line and fold up < FOLD UPRIGHT ¥ bl > g’ THE CHINA CLIPPER OVER HAWAII ight flight over the Pacific Ocean, this modern CHINA CLIPPER sights the first landfall, the tropic islands of fi?:lraiti.he'l!;:gg:e‘gt flyi:s boats of the Pan American Pacific mail route make the seven hops to Hongkong in a week, but require only seventy flying hours for the trip. Regular_mails go by other routes, but steamships can carry letters over this route in 24 days. Fast battleships, 9 to 10 days. The original clipper ships which sailed other routes to China might have covered this plane route in about 35 days with the best winds NEXT SUNDAY'S WORLD MUSEUM DIORAMA—HONG KONG WATER FRONT