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...meeting was concluded by a visit to the General Electric plant in West Lynn to see the work being performed there in the making of fused quartz mirrors, an innovation in the manufacture of telescopes. A constant problem in astronomy is how to make bigger and better mirrors for the telescopes. Glass, which has long been used for the smaller mirrors, is almost out of the question for a really large project. The reason for this is that the surface curvature of these reflectors must be correct down to a fraction somewhere between a quarter to a half millionth...
...Harvard Observatory is to be open to visitors from 7.30 to 9 o'clock, after which Mr. and Mrs. Harlowe Shapley will hold a New Year's Eve party. Wednesday is to be devoted mainly to the reading of more papers. On Thursday, the General Electric plant in West Lynn is to be visited, specially to see the work on fused quartz mirrors...
Hollis--"Meteor", with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Reviewed in this issue...
Most heartbreaking it is to find at the Hollis, where the Theatre Guild is opening its Boston season, that Lynn Fontanne has nothing to do. The play is "Meteor", by S. N. Behrman, who wrote "The Second Man" and "Serena Blandish". And though Miss Fontanne is in it, on the stage, in fact, for a good part of it, she is a distinct second fiddle. This is all the more remarkable, because there are few enough actresses of her attainments who would take such a part, and none that would do it with such a fine sense of the artistic...
...Newton Country Day School 9, 16; Browne and Nichols School 9, 6; Noble and Greenough School 9, 12; The Hill School 8; St. George's School 7, 11; Arlington High School 7; Peddie School 7; Worcester Academy 6, 6; Horace Mann School 6, 8; Fieldston School 5; Lynn Classical High School 5; Newton Classical High School 5; Roxbury Latin School 5, 7; Boston English High School 5; Medford High School...