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...Carousel," the Theater Guild's latest attempt to copy former success "Oklahoma," specializes in top notch Agnes DeMille dance routines, overflows with passable Richard Rodgers music, and totters on the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and the plot from Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom...
Hammerstein, who rose to lyrical heights in "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" has fallen in "Carousel." With no first rate songs whatsoever, he presents numbers titled like "This Was a Real Nice Clambake," "When I Marry Mr. Snow," "Geraniums in the Winder" that turn one's esthetic stomach...
Zany Clark, of the sudden grrrr, the steady leer, the carousel-horse lope, is cast as a numbers racketeer hiding out from the FBI in Mexico. Pursuit of that fine fiction drives him into some startling new disguises. As a strolling musician he flutes and frolics; as a bucktoothed Indian squaw (see cut) he joins in a happy warble, Count Your Blessings...
...appears to be slowly rotating like an enormous wheel. Therefore, if the rays come from outside the galaxy, whichever side of Earth happens to be facing the direction of rotation should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This should result in a small daily variation in cosmic ray incidence at a given point on Earth, as the earth's own daily rotation swings that point from front to back of the galactic movement...
...should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just as a child riding a carousel in the rain should be struck by more drops in front than in back. This small daily variation in the cosmic rays has actually been observed, so Dr. Compton agrees they must come from the remotest depths of space. What is their scientific importance? 1) A cosmic ray impact led to the discovery of the positive electron, a fundamental particle of matter. 2) The geographic distribution of the rays facilitates study of Earth's magnetic field. 3) For laboratory work...