Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeans' books about the great cosmic beyond, or to be more precise, the great around, one fins a model for popular scientific writing. Beginning with the origin of our earth as a ball of flaming matter, he traces its history to the present, pierces the atmosphere, travels to our moon, to the planets, to the sun, beyond our stars to stars infinitely greater, and finally to the nebulae, those gigantic whirling masses of worlds unborn, and thus in a sense returns to the beginning...
...Last spring he was the director of the Broadway success "The Pure in Heart," written by John Howard Lawson, also author of "Success Story." In the summer he managed the Millbrook, N. Y. Theatre. To him John Dos Passes dedicated three plays, including "The Garbage Man," and "The Moon is a Gong...
...most prominent "nova" ever on record was seen by Tycho in 1572, and was as bright as any of the heavenly bodies except the sun and the moon. The "new stars" occur only as the result of the greatest catastrophes that have occurred within the universe in history, explosions within stars, which may increase their brightness 10,000 times. They sometimes become quite bright to the naked eye, but fade from sight as the disturbance subsides. The one seen by Tycho disappeared after six months. Four or five bright ones have been discovered since the turn of the century...
...McGowan libretto, however, moves fast, causes constant amused chuckling. In line with the season's custom of drafting entertainers from other departments of the drama, frail Linda Watkins (June Moon) finds herself cast as an ingenue in a musical piece for the first time. Lillian Emerson, another legitimate actress, is teamed with Harry Richman, the only man on Broadway who can lisp without exciting suspicion. Bob Hope, the irrepressible juvenile of Roberta, displays a pretty wit. And as a freak draw the management has hired Impostor Harry Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), who made a vaudeville appearance...
...write about a dynamic drama like Within the Gates. . . . The theatre is richer today than it was 24 hours ago. . . . In comparison with Within the Gates, most of the plays that have come from overseas in recent years seem but feeble little fingers poking vainly at the moon.' " Irishman O'Casey, who had been brought from England for the U. S. première, was on hand to declare: "All fresh and imaginatively minded dramatists are out to release drama from the pillory of naturalism and send her dancing through the streets...