Popular science monthly . sas safe as a cruise in your arm-chair. Three things are necessary to make acommercially successful Thriller. Itshould have a genuine thrill or somereally interesting feature in it; it shouldbe absolutely safe; and it should be sufficiently economical in operation tomake it possible to reduce the fee foradmission to a figure well within themeans of the average purse. Some ofthe most successful devices are based onthe natural aptitude of many of oursupposedly sophisticated city folk tolook and act foolish. Others, designedgenerally for the younger folk, give areal phys


Popular science monthly . sas safe as a cruise in your arm-chair. Three things are necessary to make acommercially successful Thriller. Itshould have a genuine thrill or somereally interesting feature in it; it shouldbe absolutely safe; and it should be sufficiently economical in operation tomake it possible to reduce the fee foradmission to a figure well within themeans of the average purse. Some ofthe most successful devices are based onthe natural aptitude of many of oursupposedly sophisticated city folk tolook and act foolish. Others, designedgenerally for the younger folk, give areal physical thrill, a shoot the chuteor near smash-up. Still others aredesigned to suit the more sober folk, andthough thrilling enough for colder tem-peraments, do not contain that elementof apparent danger so delightful to theyounger generation. A good example of this particularvariety is pictured on the opposite scene depicts a quiet little seaportin England. It is entitled The AerialNight Attack, and represents most. At Convy Islan 1 n Zeppelin Kaul Hoen SlaRcd. General View of n Seaport Townin Which the News of an ApproachiuR Zeppelin Has Been Received. AircraftArc Dispatched to Meet the Invaders and They Mount in Great Spirals to the Sky 39* Sta.^in? a Coney Island Zeppelin Raid


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