different parts of the world, including landscapes themed to Japan, Germany, and Ireland. According to the New-York Tribune, "the villages of foreigners form centres of interest for many visitors to Luna Park". By 1904, the park also had replicas of Delhi, as well as a miniature Hanging Gardens of Babylon with 25,000 plants and 10,000 trees. Legacy Critical reception The day after the park opened in 1903, a reporter claimed that "the brilliance and beauty and weirdness of it all beggars description". Soon afterward, the New-York Tribune wrote that the park was "most completely electrically illuminated and most attractively laid out, while there is nothing to which the most fastidious visitor can take the least exception in the way the attractions are presented or attention is drawn to them". Russian author Maxim Gorky said of the park: "With the advent of night, a fantastic city all of fire suddenly rises from the ocean into the sky", while another writer said that Luna Park's skyline "is utterly unlike anything else of its kind in the two Americas". The Tribune wrote in 1904 that "people were at a loss for adjectives and exclamations to describe the City of the Moon last summer; they will be utterly swamped this year." Not all commentary was positive; art critic James Huneker said "every angle reveals some new horror" at Dreamland and Luna Park. Luna Park's electric tower had inspired the construction of similar towers at Steeplechase Park and Dreamland. Billboard magazine described Luna Park and Dreamland in 1904 as the "twin sisters of magnificence"; the same magazine, in 1918, characterized Luna Park as a "real World's Fair". Luna Park became so closely associated with Coney Island's amusements that, in 1921, the Standard Union called it "the heart of Coney Island". In 1991, New York Times critic Walter Goodman described Luna Park as "a blazing architectural jumble, from Romanesque to Art Nouveau, alive with aerialists, tightrope walkers, jugglers and elephants." John Kasson wrote in 1978 that, similar to the ornate vaudeville theaters and movie palaces of the early 20th century, "Luna appealed to popular notions of magnificence". In popular culture Before the park opened, it was featured in the short silent comedy Rube and Mandy at Coney Island. The song "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" was recorded by Billy Murray in 1905 to promote the park, among others. Roscoe Arbuckle's 1917 silent Coney Island featured